Ajin
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Author: | Miura Tsuina & Sakurai Gamon |
Artist: | Sakurai Gamon |
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Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Ongoing |
Description: | The story follows a high school student named Kei Nagai, who is caught in a traffic accident, dies, but immediately revives and learns he is not human, but an Ajin, a mysterious creature that cannot die. Scared, he runs away from humans but is helped by his friend Kai, who joins him in his flee from civilization. He then becomes involved in a conflict between human and Ajin and must choose a side. Note: Roughly mid-way through the manga, the Author Tsuina Miura left this project. Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award, the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and in the Seinen category in the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2014. In the 40th(2016) annual kodansha manga award for General Category |
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368 Comments
It's announced that Ajin has surpassed printing 2,300,000 copies.
I'm enjoying this, but I don't think they've made the slightest attempt to explain why all the humans in this have some kind of natural universal hatred for Ajin...
Volume 4 cover:
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Go read naruto or some other shit then
i agree with you there but *spoiler* seeing how the cap guy (i forgot his name) is just letting his ajin roam free that is interesting to me he's letting it develop personality and self consciousness i wanna see where that goes to.
It's not that the quality is diminishing, but that the process of fleshing out the ablities of the AJIN - or demi-human shadow-things, has been spotty, which gives most readers a funny twitch in their memory banks because most technical/scientific/quasi-religious explanations for the phenomena in a supernatural themed manga take place with a more straight-forward methodology (literary technique). Here we have to pick up bits and pieces from dialogues that don't fit very naturally into the course of the story.
Imo, the author had a rough idea with great visuals and based on the success of his previous manga, he was given a green light without a fully fleshed out concept. Now that he's building upon that rough concept, we're getting those necessary phenomonological explanations in piecemeal doses... which as I mentioned before, triggers the sixth sense (aka imprecise memory) of most readers... with the general feeling being that the story isn't unfolding in a very controlled, deliberate manner.
This is a good story, but I confess that the author's very original concept - otherworldly creatures that cause a human to ressurrect, but don't endow any other powers, is fumbling all over itself. I've definitely never seen anything like it, but I'm having a hard time getting the same 'pumped up' experience that other seinen give me while reading. Instead these battles leave me kind of fatigued and wishing that the characters would just die...or that someone would figure out a way to accomplish that. Since we haven't seen anything that gives off a 'chosen one' vibe that might alter the fates of all the AJIN, the story just seems to be rambling along without hinting at an ultimate villain, or a reason d'etre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
To anyone who doesn't know the guy.
BECAUSE I LIKE BEING A SMARTASS
I agree. It would be a different story altogether if everyone else was "sane" and the MC were the only sociopath, but with everyone being crazy and there being no "right", it just doesn't really make him stand out or be significant. In this type of stories, it is generally best to make a "naive" or, at the very least, not totally insane or sociopathic character. He is neither of those.
TL;DR, This story's protagonist is weak and unlikable (to me) because he is similar to the other, sociopathic characters.
Is it me or does the quality of the manga seem kind of inconsistent? It was pretty good at first but seems to start being a little unbearable. It looks more like a rough draft and a small amount of cleaning up by the artist.
I love them both. Equally. Neither one is superior to the other just because of getting better grades and being more mature. ... No! Don't jump, there's so much to live for, Jiro!! Jirooooooo!!!! No... Why?! Why, god WHYYYY?!?!?!?
very interesting
I'm a little annoyed that Kei's friend seems to have disappeared as quickly and unexpectedly as he appeared. But there's a lot of dangling ends with big question marks needing tied in yet so I guess I'll keep hoping he comes back.
Hahaha. Satou's IBM on "free-time" looks oddly cute. That part amused me a little too much.
i laughed way more than i should in this part.
http://www.dm5.com/m117914/ Well there's the link to the manga in a foreign language. Perhaps you're referring to the anime? If there is an anime, I wouldn't know, because I haven't watched anime since 2012. I don't watch, because echii is one of the big themes in any anime these days, and that's not for me. And the stereotypical shounen bs is even worse in film than on paper.
Ajin is the crunchyroll's new manga:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-842285/new-simulpub-manga-from-kodansha-ajin-koe-no-katachi-the-heroic-legend-of-arslan
Hito Kui is even better.
Haven't read something this good in quite sometime. Think Ajin has a one up on Tokyo Ghoul.
I wouldn't say that they're dehumanized for a superficial reason, because if someone is practically immortal, you would definitely use them as experiments to find out what makes them immortal. Plus, though inhuman, it is practical to use them in experiments.
Well that sure convinced me.