Kid (TAJIMA Nanae)

Description

A father trying to escape prison and go back to his ill son, comes across a child who asks the man to be his dad, but what is a child doing in a prison?

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

ｋｉｄ（田島七枝）読切

Groups Scanlating

Death Toll

Latest Release(s)

c.Oneshot by Death Toll 13 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

Oneshot (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 6.3 / 10.0 (11 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.28 / 10.0

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27%

Last Updated

January 15th, 2019 7:33am PST - 6 years ago

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Genre

Action Drama Shounen
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Author(s)

TAJIMA Nanae

Artist(s)

TAJIMA Nanae

Year

2009

Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Club Sunday (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

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Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #779

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Monthly Pos #1774

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3 Month Pos #2344

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6 Month Pos #4856

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Year Pos #5930

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List Stats

On 6 reading lists

On 8 wish lists

On 37 completed lists

On 1 unfinished lists

On 25 custom lists

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Stop you say? As if I'm going to stop.

by StoneLuigi
5 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

The artstyle is really unpleasant. The kid is about six inches tall and half forehead. Emotional closeups fill whole pages with disgustingly overdrawn snotty facial features. Glasses lose their temples or flexibly curve across faces like goggles because people's heads are drawn too wide, but only from certain angles. Half-baked perspectives reveal an incomplete grasp of anatomy. But the real problem is that the writing stampedes through melodramatic cliches without ever giving its boring characters time to endear themselves.

The characters have little appeal. It's just assumed you will automatically love any little kid with superpowers. The entire point is that the two main characters mutually need each other, so they've got to develop a father-son relationship, but there's nothing to it at all. The kid literally just jumps in and demands this occur, and it does. He has the ill-defined ability to break them both out at any point, but they don't. The angry dad grabs and wrestles away a gun held directly against the back of his head and because he's an angry dad this works. Then the guy with the pistol shoots off his whole leg with one bullet. Then he gets back up. Is there supposed to be tension here?

The entire comic is just a cheap excuse to show a man doing brave manly Japanese dad things: sniveling, hitting your kid to make a point, and dying in a pointless sacrifice.

I did enjoy the prison overseer's enormous, creepy leer and frighteningly bald head. (Because everyone's proportions constantly change, I couldn't tell whether there were one or three characters like this.) The scummy scoundrels in the background benefit from the grossly exaggerated style, like One Piece's freaky bad guys. Tajima Nanae should play to his strengths and not put cartoon toddlers in solemn melodramas.

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