Bleh. Well I stared reading this because I saw some stuff about Mukuro and Chrome... and I was at first put off by the first chapters but I had heard that it got better and it did. If the cliché shounen can be considered good... the main reason I persisted with this story is because of a few of the characters and because I felt it would be a waste to drop it when I'd spent so much time on it already. It really isn't the best story, there are some good points but most of it is just a jumble of different and strange storylines that ultimately lead... nowhere...
Plot- There are so many arcs, and hardly any to me really feel at all connected. Sure the characters reappear
With all the bad guys now good guys of course!
but other than that there is few things that connect these very bizarre story lines. Yes, I did enjoy the idea of the middle arcs but the first and last arcs are pretty boring. The beginning was bad, then I began to enjoy the story as more characters I enjoyed were introduced then I got bored of the story again and it ended (thankfully). The plot really isn't that deep, and there is barely any character development. The plot repeats like any other shounen action manga; bad guy and defeat then power up and win, then bad guy and defeat then power up and win and so on.
Characters- I already mentioned I read this story for the characters, and truthfully there were some that I found extremely enjoying. However, they were trapped in this manga with a terrible main character. There were so many characters (good and bad alike) that there is no time to really develop anyone and I'm left wishing that some of the characters had their own manga. But alas, they are stuck in this one...
Art- Gets better, in fact it's quite good. The faces are expressive, the lines AMAZING, wonderful details and just an all-around very smooth style that looks wonderful. This is the one point I can say is wholly wonderful.
Other- Don't read it. It's not worth it. There were parts I enjoyed (mostly because of the characters... in fact only because of the characters) but all in all this long story isn't worth the read. It goes nowhere, the main character remains static and all my favorite characters are unfortunately forgotten in the multitude of average and horrible ones. It REALLY isn't worth your time.
4/10- Ok