The mangaka´s previous effort Saru Lock quickly turned into rubbish so I quit early. My love for Biohazard got me to check this one out, as I have finished every canon RE game. The art itself is fine, some softcore gore can occasionally be seen but not nearly often enough. There are also a few badly integrated fan service scenes. The manga´s original story itself is a generic "high schoolers fight monsters in secret" story with no proper logic behind it. All the characters represent typical clinches one can find in most shounen action manga and they don´t develop over the short-ish run-time. The connections to the franchise are very loose too and could be cut out entirely without changing 1% of the story. Feel free to try out Marhawa Desire if you really need a fluff action comic with occasional cameos by Chris and Piers (why him?). The short [m]Biohazard Umbrella Chronicles[/m] (7,5/10) tie-in or the second CG anime (6/10) should be sampled first though. The series is lastly a Shounen manga, as children were always the main customers of the adult only rated games. Obviously...

Update: I just flipped through the ending and the final volume was as bad as I expected. The whole story turned out to be another Highschool of the Dead clone and the illogical plot doesn´t fit the games at all. The worst offend is certainly the epilogue, as it was nothing more than a RE6 commercial! I thus have to wonder if Naoki Serizawa only looked at google image results and promotional material for RE6 (the worst written one) to come up with this vapid mess. I now know which sequel series I won´t be reading but Utsurowazarumono - Breath of Fire IV (8,5/10) proves that adaptations of Capcom games can work. Read it or go for Naoki´s one good manga Lucifer no Migite (7,5/10) instead. And don´t even get me started on how much better the Walking Dead (10/10) comic is. Poor Resident Evil. You just can´t catch a break with nearly all of your media adaptations.

... Last updated on February 9th, 2019, 3:06pm