When i saw the cover and summary, my first thought that it seemed interesting. But in the end, it's not working for me. I think the most important thing to create a succesful story on whichever form media the author choose is to be able to captivate readers to its characters, plotline, and the world inside the story. Some said there are too many characters only appear to die. Some said the story is confusing with too many characters. Some just can't accept cockroach. But the biggest flaw in this manga for me, is the theme "Science"-fiction. At least put some science basis in it? Be it a fantasy, you still want to make the story convincing to the readers. In some aspects, the reasoning just goes *bara bara* (sfx for crumbling).

Let's say Cockroach did evolve in Mars (which the process of evolution took relatively short here), how can it evolve and took a form of Humanoid? The closest cockroach has similarity with homo sapiens is they both are living things. It is Insect to begin with. Three pairs of legs, three body-parts; head, abdomen, thorax, facet eyes, antenna, etc. ...And we are mammals.
Up to the point where it could speak human-language and using a cellphone, i decided to stop.
What the..?

Nippon-America, Nippon-America, Nippon Nippon and Nippon Bug. The flag waving is unbearable.

Too many characters and many look the same. Some are only introduced and mentioned just before they get killed. Never seen them before and wham, they be dead. My beloved Sasha was one of them. Who is Sasha, you ask; you tell me. She died in Volume 8 Chapter 71. She is the trapped door spider. Asimov tricked her into getting herself killed. Not a spoiler because my beloved is a nobody. A worse incident, there were people that are in a tiny space whom you don't know of their existence and dialogue occurring in this space is spread over several pages only when they get attacked in the tiny space suddenly all the other "invisible" characters appear in a panel or two so you can see them getting killed.

There is no plot, however it makes up for it with absurdities. The dialogues are all over the place and confusing. Should have been released as a picture book without dialogue, might have been an improvement.

Art: The bugs all look alike. So do the humans. Art is so and so. I would say good but damn story line makes it bad.

FormX said: "If you are educated on biology then all logic of sorts disappears,"
Correction he meant to say "if you have a brain then all logic sort of disappears"

... Last updated on May 31st, 2015, 7:06am

Holy hell was that horrible. The plot, along with the monsters, literally make no sense. I kept waiting for something to click and after 2 volumes of nonsense I'm calling quits.

Yes, people do die in this manga. Does that matter though? No. Past the shock value in first chapter, it's irrelevant and expected. Terra Formars also contains gore which, like death, also loses it's wow factor after the first X beheadings. The series simply lacks the meat that fills in the space from one decapitation to another.

... Last updated on February 12th, 2014, 12:28pm

The synopsis says it all but then comes the... surprise of the design of the cockroaches. The fact that the crew is sent there to kill them and take the land is the icing on the cake. I like to believe this whole thing was unintentional but eh.

Rating: 1/10 for being funny in a horrible horrible way.