After all its hard to believe it would be possible to behold such a wretched sight in this world. There is no reason to explain why innocent people should be treated this way. This place is HELL. In a post apocalyptic setting Alice in Hell might be about a lot of things. It could be about human connections in the post apocalyptic world and how the lack of these connections drive you to insanity. It could be about trauma and the cycle of abuse and yet...I feel the ideas could have feel explored more in what was a 42 chapter long story. Despite the name the protagonist is not Alice if anything Alice is a doll that barely does anything until she is fixed. The protagonist is Shuu a 14 year old orphan who is a talented marksman. At the start of the series Shuu treats Alice terribly since she is a puppet she doesnt need to think. He saves a woman from villains and eventually goes to work for the Commune where she lives at. The characters we meet at the Commune are interesting but nothing to write home about except Kenji. Eliza who is Shuu caretaker in a few words has very interesting set up and is as messed up as Shuu is for different reasons but I wish she could have been used more maybe in the place of Kenji. However her being under a responsible caretaker despite everything is what set the difference between her and Shuu at the endgame. In an apocalyptic world where sexual assault is the rule rather than the exception the series is VERY graphic be warned the author does a good work in showing the characters trauma. Shuu tends to regress mentally when it comes to a lifeordeath situation acting childishly and calling for his father while repeating his lessons. The flashback about his father is the best stretch of the whole series and it explains his relationship with Alice. He is not deranged because he wants to and he isnt a sniper because he wants to yet he does it because he must. Being aware enough for him to not be a puppet but being forced to because of his situation and because he doesnt know anything else is one of the reasons for his insanity. The last 2 volumes reveal a lot of things that Alice holds the key for a secret oasis something about the moon with explosives. Most of these are misdirection or either do not matter that much Alice dolls existed before the war and they were meant to be replacements for families for PSTD Shuns realization on what Alice means to him comes way too late for him to hit and it is hard to sympathize for him when Kenji is the one who is in the right. Overall for what it was Alice was okay. The ending makes it clear that Shuu is in the wrong but it doesnt matter. He didnt choose to be a broken boy in a broken world but he chose his doll over everything perhaps thats what matters.