Saishuu Heiki Kanojo

Description

From Viz:

Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high school seniors in a small town and have just started dating. But everything changes when Shuji discovers that Chise has been engineered by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the Ultimate Weapon! Soon Chise is torn between realizing her potential as a devastating fighting force and her desire to share a bowl of ramen with her new boyfriend!

Type

Manga

Related Series

Love Story, Killed (Side Story)

Saishuu Heiki Kanojo Gaiden - Sekai no Hate ni wa Kimi to Futari de (Side Story)

Associated Names

El arma definitiva

Larme Ultime (French)

Lei, l'arma finale (Italian)

My Girlfriend, The Ultimate Weapon

SaiKano

Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet

Saishuheiki Kanojo

She, The Ultimate Weapon

อาวุธสุดท้ายคือเธอ Saikano (NED)

最終兵器彼女

최종병기그녀

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Dual Translations

Manga-Sketchbook

Latest Release(s)

v.7 c. by Manga-Sketchbook 19 years ago

v.6 c. by Manga-Sketchbook 20 years ago

v.4-5 c. by Manga-Sketchbook 20 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

7 Volumes (Complete)
4 Volumes (Aizouban Edition, Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 72

User Reviews

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Forum

3 topics, 17 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.3 / 10.0 (461 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.18 / 10.0

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Last Updated

September 6th, 2024 3:37am PDT - 1 year ago

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Genre

Action Drama Mature Psychological Romance School Life Sci-fi Seinen Tragedy
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

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Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Big Comic Spirits (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Viz (7 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #818

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Monthly Pos #1533

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3 Month Pos #2888

(-315)

6 Month Pos #3410

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Year Pos #5055

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List Stats

On 494 reading lists

On 1087 wish lists

On 1176 completed lists

On 61 unfinished lists

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Manga or Anime?

14 years ago

Ending

15 years ago

saikano

17 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

miserable and banal

by yabukidust
9 months ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Huge fan of "moe girl becoming a machine" genre. Gunslinger Girl, Ai-ren to some extent, the works. I just despise this series. It's ugly, not because of the "unmasking the dark side of humanity!" stuff but because it has some ugly views on sex and women and the art is too deceptively good for what it is.

I'll go ahead and say that the art is what kept me going. The paneling is light and gentle and the characters look soft, which contrasts well with the cruelty of the series. It's surprisingly more sexual than expected. I don't have qualms with that exactly but the attitudes on sex are abysmal as I'll explain later. At least everyone is moe. The use of Chise in a school uniform with a crazy machine on her back is iconic, but it's also increasingly hilarious as she keeps activating her abilities and wrecking her uniform like girl... just wear something that doesn't explode when you go super saiyan. If i'm right, there's a whole arc (my favorite) where she's helping out soldiers in an active combat zone and she's STILL wearing a uniform. It was so funny. Get it together girl.

My praise ends here. The art does a lot of heavy lifting in making you think the series has more meaningful things to say than it does. The message I got was "heterosexuality is inevitable and you will get hurt but that's how it is because men and women be like that." The protagonist, Shuji, is kind of a dickhead to little Chise (tends to happen in moe works for some reason, I guess dudes wanna bully moe girls?) but I was willing to give him some grace as he clearly had some communication issues. A pretty disturbing development comes along that I think explains why he is the way he is pretty well but I hated the way it was handled. Chise, on the other hand, is moe. That's it. She's a cute clumsy girl who loves her boyfriend and you feel sad when bad things happen because it's sad when little girls are hurt. The series goes on and on and she doesn't get deeper and everyone gets sadder because men and women are destined to have painful sex with each other forever and ever. My favorite arcs were 1) when Chise was hanging out with the soldiers because there was no romance and it's cute watching the guys who will inevitably explode treat a girl nicely 2) the ending part where Chise and Shuji are psuedo married and Shuji is actually nice for once. The rest is a banal flurry of depressing things that are depressing not because the events are sad but because they don't say anything. This thing was way too long.

If you liked this work then that is cool and I'm happy, I understand why people would enjoy it and cry over it and the aesthetic is very nice. But if you have similar tastes as me you will spit this thing right out. I mentioned Gunslinger Girl and Ai-ren at the top since they pull similar stunts but the difference is that they respect the girls of their story. These stories aren't just sad because a little girl is sad: they are sad because that little girl used to be a person, and when she loses what makes her her, then she has basically died. Chise didn't lose anything because she was nothing. Unfortunately, that's all I can say on the subject.

... Last updated 9 months ago

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reeeally well made

by thomaseggen
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

I never knew my eyes could hold this many tears... they just won't stop falling!
really though, I truly recommend this manga it is so beautiful. the art is pretty, the story story is amazing and it makes you feel.. erm stuff...

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Simply amazing

by smatthew854
12 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

This series is simply amazing as my subject line says. It's a story of the end of the world and the love you find during that time and how you deal with all the emotions that come with it. The entire story is written in a perfectly melancholy atmosphere. Never once giving you the feel of anything but what it is and that's a sad story of the end of days. A story that brings to mind the thought, even when you know its all going to end anyway THIS is why we struggle to keep on living.
If you are looking for a light read stay away. This is the kind of story that will tug at your emotions.

Please read this you will not be sorry there is a good reason its rated as highly as it is.

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Get past chapter four and you'll not regret it, Saikano's awesome!!!!

by Suo.Minona
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It's been a few years since my last reread of the series, so the details are not as vivid for me as to try and describe the story as best as it deserves, but the experience and feelings it left me with are something I can't put into words, it's like something very personal on an intimate level, it's like the experience was my own, truly, it made me take a moment and let my self be impressed by man's genius and marvel at it, because this was man made... right?

One thing I recall that made the manga hit home for me is how the characters were on a first name basis, and the names really easy to remember, it was as if this wasn't a Japanese setting but instead it was all happening in the next town, or maybe this was all set in a school in the neighborhood, it was funny at times, painfully agonizing at others, magnificent at all times, the relationships are real, you'll think about your real childhood friend when you see the MC's and the rowdy crowd of kids you were, you'll appreciate what you have now and treasure it.

One special moment that left me not knowing how to feel, is when the world was crumbling and falling apart (literally) and the MC and heroine treasured their bond, with what little resources they had left, I'm a guy and I never ever imagined that I'd shed tears for anything real much less fiction, this made me cry like a little girl (well almost).

So does this series have no downside to it? the only downside I can think of is how I couldn't enjoy any other series after reading it for weeks, it left me looking for the next Saikano desperately, but there's only one of those, too bad for me.

Cute Chise and awkward Shuji will live on in my heart for ever.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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Tore me apart

by kevjunba
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Just as the subject says, this one tore my heart to pieces. Although the drawing could be better and the story is hard to follow at times, this is--and will be--the greatest drama manga that I will ever read.

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Pretty Epic! But...

by SilentAnime
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

...UTTERLY DEPRESSING!!! Now this is what drama for you guys! The 1st chapter is a common one for love drama, but things will start shaking on the next chapter. The deep, dark emotion from all the character in this story (which IMO inspired from the Japan's WW2 experience with a bit of fantasy) keep developing that in some points make you feel like you lost your will to live. Not recommended for thou with a weak heart.

PS: BTW, It would be great if the anime opening is ALONES from Aqua Timez (I knew, but it's just that those 2 are so perfectly matched, right?)

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too good to be true

by sighing
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Please, people, don't stop at chapter 4... you'll miss something awesome. It's... beautiful. The characters are... Ah! I just can't express it. I've just been so touched by this manga. It's deep yet light and fluffy. The drawings are very sketchy yet awesomely soft and perfect. Well I may be influenced by the fact I just love that author since reading Tom Sawyer, but hell, that guy just draws too well. Never once did I feel like the story was too far-fetched even though the principal subject is just stupid : One day, Kanojo gets abducted then she comes back as the perfect weapon (just how would something like that happen ? I mean, fuck, if they could create one, might as well just create an entire army, that's just too unrealistic). It's... the only thing you might not like ("might" because in the end it doesn't matter).

If you want to read this, I suggest you prepare yourself some time alone, and then read, as slowly as possible starting from volume 2 (vol 1 is just cute, the real show starts in vol2). And, don't try skipping anything, I feel that every detail of this piece of art is a piece of art in itself. Personally, I ended up crying like three times reading this even though I'm a guy(yea I know that doesn't mean anything) and my tears are thing I had kept precious all my life.

Well. Maybe it's just me but, this is one goddamned great manga anyway, and I love it, it's my favorite and it will always be.

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Yes, but...

by cecropiamoth
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is not of much value, maybe, since I didn't read past chapter 4 or so.

Still, any story about a war that's set in the present has to take account of modern armaments. Things like nuclear bombs and 50-rounds per second Gatling guns can NOT be successfully fought by one human, no matter how augmented. To set the stage for all the wonderful feeling and philosophy and suchlike in this mange you have to give the girl amazingly massive powers that a reader can still swallow despite their excessiveness because they come from a familiar tradition, i.e., magic. Note how much time in Magister...Negima! the author spends in filling in lots of detail of how magic works so that when 10-year-old Negi fights the bad guys with giant magic effects it doesn't just seem ridiculous.

This is why I hate fantasy in most cases. It makes the writer or mangaka's scene-creating job a piece of cake. He can just massively rearrange how the physical world works, or even IGNORE same, until he gets the world the way he wants it, and since some people will swallow that, his story sells. It's too easy.

One anime that actually went to the trouble to create a plausable world for the fantastic battle story to take place in is "Simoun".

To sum up, let me quote lbloodll in his review: "In addition I felt that if the author wanted to tell a story about the depth of love, he could have used any other wartime scenario."
Yes he could, and if he had, the story would have probably have been more affecting, because I think that even the person most besotted with fantasy can more easily generate truly deep, painful feelings within a story set in something like the real world than in any other kind. After all, if it's happening in something like the real world that the reader lives in, then OMG all that painful stuff might actually happen to him!

... Last updated 14 years ago

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Not quite so.

by Mister Corpse
14 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

After reading a few of the comments, I finally decided to pick up this manga. Much to my despair, it wasn't as great as I thought it would be. The manga wasn't "thought-provoking" to me but maybe it's because I dropped the series at chapter 4. However, by then, I felt that if I wasn't in love with this manga, nor interested, I wouldn't ever be interested. I also felt that some scenes were too rushed and choppy. Maybe I'm just too critical but this manga is only alright to me.
*Edit: I ended up finishing the manga since I was bored. Overall, it was alright. Maybe I just couldn't relate to the characters or probably I rushed the reading too much. I think that since I didn't really want to read it in this first place, my rating of the manga never went above average. I'd give this manga a 6 at most.

... Last updated 14 years ago

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beutiful

by andasideoffries
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

I wasnt going to comment on this manga until I saw Cedante90 comment. and all I can say is that he/she is so right. its a beutiful and emotionaly moving manga that made me want to cry.If you can stomach heartache and tears-I'd highlyu recommend this manga (dont worry though-it doesnt end too sadly)

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