- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Most of the cast dies quickly enough that it's hard to get attached to any of them. It is that obvious that any secondary character who wins one fight will just get effortlessly killed next chapter. Characters who are analogous to ones from Arachnid oddly don't interact with each other, too.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Much like Basilisk and other Sengoku period ninja tales, it features two ninja factions mostly made up of jerkasses fighting for control of Japan, killing each other back and forth from chapter to chapter. Even the protagonist is a jerk who temporarily betrays Rin for his clan, though he makes efforts to help her and recover her trust afterwards. What little likeable characters are there die miserably and for nothing. Even the two characters comparable to Alice Fujii from Arachnid, who is something of a mascot for the author, got snuffed out horribly.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Has plenty of gory violence and mature themes but is published in the shonen Gangan Joker magazine, which has had plenty of stories like that anyway.
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