[REVIEW] Judge, vol5

Series: JUDGE #5 | Prequels
Author: Yoshiki Tonogai
Genre: manga, mystery, thriller, horror
Published: October 28, 2014 (first published May 22, 2012)
Publisher: Yen Press

IT'S TIME TO CLEAR THE DOCKET 

Who could possibly be responsible for this game? That question swirls among the participants, who grow more desperate as they are forced to make one horrific choice after another. The game is to conclude when the requisite four survivors have been determined. For those fortunates, court will be adjourned... But what awaits them on the other side of the courthouse doors?

[REVIEW] JUDGE, vol4

Series: JUDGE #4 | Prequel: #1, #2, #3
Author: Yoshiki Tonogai
Genre: manga, mystery, thriller, horror
Published: June 24, 2014 (first published November 22, 2011)
Publisher: Yen Press
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Eiwa Manga (PH)

YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES PLAYING THIS GAME. 

Do the clues discovered in a new room herald nothing more than a new despair? Soon, the brutal sentencing of the third judgment is visited upon the participants. Who here is the victim, and who the perpetrator? Until all is revealed, time is on no one’s side…

[REVIEW] JUDGE, vol3

Series: JUDGE #3 | Prequel: #1, #2
Author: Yoshiki Tonogai
Genre: manga, mystery, thriller, horror
Published: February 18, 2014 (first published January 1, 2010)
Publisher: Yen Press
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Eiwa Manga (PH)

THE (COURT) HOUSE ALWAYS WINS. 

In the abandoned courthouse, to trust is folly. Is that the only strategy to staying alive in the twisted game underway within? When the time for the second judgment arrives, a ruthless decision is made to shocking effect. The sinners must accept reality… for idealistic notions have no place within these halls of cruel and swift justice… 

[REVIEW] JUDGE, vol2

Series: JUDGE | Prequel: vol1
Author: Yoshiki Tonogai
Genre: manga, mystery, thriller
Published: November 26, 2013 (first published January 1, 2012)
Publisher: Yen Press
ISBN: 978-0-316-24032-1

Synopsis:JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER 

Court is now in session for Hiro and the other sinners, who have been herded like cattle into an abandoned courthouse to pass judgment on one another’s crimes. Suspicions whirl after the first trial is held. Were the votes cast by the sinners born of deception or goodwill? As a clearer picture of the courthouse itself is revealed, new doubts arise. What’s to become of the one who has been sentenced to death?

Judge: Volume 1 – review

Yoshiki Tonogai comes back with another interesting locked-room psychological game with a more interesting premise that involves the seven capital sins.