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Batshit insanity the manga!
by residentgrigo on March 22, 2015, 2:21pm - 10 years ago

Rating - 6.4 / 10.0
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Story/Plot - 1 out of 5
Characters - 2 out of 5
Drawing Style - 5 out of 5
Enjoyment - 5 out of 5
Overall - 3 out of 5

Batshit insanity the manga!

The story of this grim and gritty reboot of an already grim 70s novel series is complete garbage from the very start from a writing standpoint didn´t become that later on like some reviewers here say. But what garbage it is!
Complete insanity starts in volume 1, but NO the team that brought you the shonen(?!?) action gem Akumetsu (8,5/10) had to go completely of the rails around Vol. 6 or so. Over-glorified school-shootings where an insane 14 year old tries to rape a girl with a shotgun? This manga has it! 200 pages of inhuman rape, no problem bro. There is also a Were-Ogre who is an afterproduct of rape too? Give it the Tezuka already!
So why do i "like" this misfire? Because i read it as a black comedy or as a parody of the nowadays popular motion to make everything "dark/mature" and over-sexualize it on top.
But if this Manga on the other hand was meant as a "serious" offering, oh boy. There is also the god-like art and only Berserk has more beautiful action scenes. The "crazy eyes" especially Yugo Yuuki drew here are beyond belief.
The only downside is that everyone looks at least 24 and not 14 like they are supposed to. 14 year old psychopathic Yakuza warlords, at that. Of course! It also looks like clear cut porn but isn´t this part of the "fun"?
So to sum up: As a comedy this manga is gold but if it is supposed to be taken seriously it is a war crime. I further recommend Berserk, Gantz and Akumetsu for something similar but better. Stay away from from it´s younger brother Shin Mazinger Zero as this team hooked up with Go Nagai there and the result is beyond words or sanity. The completely bonkers Battle Royale ran in the same magazine a decade prior and is pretty much the same manga with less aspects i can recommend so read it too i guess but deduct 1 point as the japanese version tried to be a real drama when it grew up and only the ingenious english translation is a true satire.
90´s Wolf Guy is complete trash btw. How fitting and i wait for the day when Ookamiotoko da yo finaly get´s unearthed form it´s shallow grave as it looks 11/10 crazy. New Remake when? WHEN!?!


 

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