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I can say that the body suit/armor is Halo-ish in design especially the helmet. You'll get to see it.
Spoiler Alert! If you are gonna read this post, please read the actual manga first!
Summary: The world has been invaded by aliens called Mimics and the human race has been at war with them. Japan has been the only industrial area able to create complex power suits and now they house a small portion of the United Defense Force in one of their bases. As the mimics press toward Japan, an order for deployment is issued and out main character is one of the soldiers who will be on the battlefield.
Radioactive Sea Urchins!
Kiriya Keiji, wakes up from his bad dream about him dying in the hands of a fellow soldier. He meets Rita Vritaski, the unit leader from the United Defense Force that has come out victorious. The day of deployment comes, Mimics have passed through the main force. With weapons that don't scratch the mimics, Keiji, along with his comrades, die a brutal death.
Meryl Campbell. No? Oh, it's Rita Vritaski!
Kiriya Keiji, wakes up from his bad dream about him dying with his fellow soldiers. Everything repeats from the time he wakes up, Jin, hands out a paper that needs signing, Jin announcing that deployment is tomorrow and waking up and having the same book in his hands and in the same position. After realized what is going on, he tries to escape the base only to be ambushed by mimics. He dies from multiple spear-like projectiles piercing his body.
Kiriya Keiji, wakes up from his bad dream about him dying from a mimic ambush. He asks Jin for his pistol and commits suicide.
Kurt Cobain style.
Kiriya Keiji, after waking up from his bad dreams multiple times, has now figured out what is happening what he needs to do. Aiming to "live" as resistance in the world, he marks his hand with the number of times he died.
Master Chief? That you?!
Likes: The gore, surprisingly, Obata-sensei can draw really disturbing scenes. I love his gore. It's not messy but it's like seeing the brain, it's disturbing yet amazing (how the brain is so smushy but it contains knowledge from as far back as we can remember.)
Ouch?
The art is in between Death Note and Bakuman, where it takes the realistic parts of Death Note and combines Bakuman's cartoon-ish style together. The main character alone is a mix of Mashiro Moritaka and Light Yagami. The story about "respawning" (like in video games) is kind of unique because it doesn't rewind back where they died, but respawn back in a specific time. It's like hitting the reset button instead of reloading the game (reference, back when game consoles didn't have a save function.)
Don't camp there!
Dislikes: Even if it is a sci-fi story, it doesn't feel like it because it takes place in our Earth. When Sci-Fi comes to mind, I think of space and the future. This is the future but it still has the current Earth's technology, except for the body suits of course. It also feels like a copy of Attack on Titan where we don't know a single thing about these monsters that are just here to kill humans. Another reason is that humans retreated and are surrounded by the mimics. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying that the it could be better if we knew more about the mimics and why they came to Earth.
Quirks: The detail in gore. Specifically, the moving teeth when Kiriya was getting shot at by a mimic.
No, it's only a cleaning!
I'm looking forward to more chapters of this series. I'm curious about what's Keiji is gonna do and if he can respawn at a different time at a different place. Can he control his respawn? Let's go read that next chapter when it comes out okay? Ja ne!
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