"[4] Davin Arul of The Star, a Malaysian publication, stated that it uses Mizuki's "trademark style of putting almost sketchily-drawn cartoon characters in realistic, highly-detailed settings".
[5] Arul wrote that the Holocaust in this graphic novel is "used as a bookend and does not figure too much in between – possibly because Mizuki did not want the magnitude of it to eclipse the rest of his story.
It was ranked as a "Publishers Weekly Pick", and the work stated that it is "a candidate for the year’s best graphic novel.
"[8] Davin Arul wrote that a reader gets accustomed to the cartoonish art style despite it being initially "really jarring".
[1] Arul stated that the work is highly complex due to the amount of detail and that can "lose the reader".