Rating (Out of 5): ~3-3.5
Publisher: Tokyopop
Spoilers?: Minor-ish?
Volumes: 1
Goodreads Synopsis:
Takeshi Uesugi knows
he's not an ordinary sixteen year old boy. His mother thinks he's not
human and it's driving her crazy. She can't be trusted not to abuse him,
and lives in a mental institution. When Takeshi agrees to model for his
father's friend, his face on billboards brings a lot of attention.
Suddenly there are many people taking an interest in him, some with very
unusual powers, just like Takeshi.
Available on Amazon.
Review:
This was a really
interesting, unique manga. I’m not even too sure what to say about it. It
wasn’t amazing in my eyes, but it was definitely not bad, and I generally
enjoyed it.
While reading this,
I couldn’t help thinking, several times, that there wasn’t going to be a very
good ending, what with so much happening and so little pages, but it actually
turned out rather well. It wasn’t rushed.
The artwork is
really neat. At first, I didn’t like it very much, but it grew on me. At times,
there are a lot of blank spaces, and the faces are too long, but at others,
it’s really done well and is just really pretty.
The first three
chapters were the Baku storyline,
about a boy that was reincarnated, and his previous self was a, um, powerful
demon-type person who took in two orphans, and he made them promise to look for
his new self and remind him of who he was, were he to die. And the boy
reincarnate isn’t having a very happy life, what with causing strange things to
happen without meaning to, his mother being rather crazy, but it takes him a
bit to get used to what he now is, plus having to fight an old enemy.
Then, the last two
chapters are a different storyline, called Mephisto,
about a guy who gets rid of demons or ghosts or whatever. He lives with two
twin girls, his sisters, and a friend, a guy, who is currently, maybe
temporarily, staying with them. Plus, a little rodent lives on his hat, and a
little creature lives in his suitcase. The whole dynamic between this group was
my favorite part; they were all just such neat, different characters, and I
would have liked to get to know more about them.
The plot line in
that story, was him saving this one woman, and then finding this doll who was
buried and just wants to go back to the little girl who loved her, only for the
girl to not care about the doll in the least. That was a rather sad,
bittersweet story.
This whole book,
from the characters to the plot to the artwork, was all very different, very
unique. It didn’t take me very long to get into it, and I rather enjoyed it.
This is the artist of The Demon Ororon series,
which I didn’t know when I first picked it up, but now I might actually pick up
that short series, if given the chance.
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