Reading DIE is the equivalent of going on a school trip, but none of your friends made it and you're stuck with only people you dislike and can't get along with. It's supposed to be fun, but it isn't.

I appreciate the gorgeous artwork and fleshed out world (hey, the entire world is literally a giant die), but the story is trying too hard to be ambiguous, and the characters are insufferable. All the characters are gloomy middle aged adults that hate their lives, they rarely ever talk unless it's to whine about something or take jabs at eachother, and they act like children. Even the main character seems to be a person that loves being the leader despite being hated and kind of an apathetic asshole.

It's a shame, because I really wanted to love this comic, but by the end of the volume it just felt like a slog to read through the edgy narration and extreme amounts of exposition. Despite feeling too long, the events of the volume felt too rushed, and it feels like a great concept that quickly turned into a mess. Very disappointing.