YMMV / Brutal: Satsujin Keisatsukan no Kokuhaku

• Catharsis Factor: After introducing us to a very dastardly character who ruins other people's lives, one expects Dan to torture and kill them.
• More Popular Spin Off: This manga is actually the spin-off of another Seinen called Trace: Kasouken Houi Kenkyuuin no Tsuisou, but its popularity greatly overshadows its parent series. For comparison, as of September of 2022, according to MyAnimeList Brutal has been read by around 12 thousand users of he site, where as Trace has less than a thousand readers.
• Spiritual Successor: Many readers noted that the manga is like a Japanese version of Dexter despite the different professions of the protagonists (Dan is a detective while Dexter is a blood-splatter analyst).
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: While the criminals of the series eventually get their punishment, the reader is still spent reading about their crimes for several chapters to eventually receive punishment from a character who is a sociopathic murderer that primarily kills out of his own desire to witness people in despair.

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