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Dead End #3
Dead End: Volume 3
Shirou's superhuman abilities become increasingly out of control as he mows down the competition--literally! He seems unstoppable, but is he powerful enough to save Parrot and Gips from the menacing miscreation everyone affectionately calls Stitch Head? Enter Nana. Is this quirky and sweet girl one of Shirou's enigmatic "acquaintances from the past"? Shirou may be able to escape Stitch Head's carnage-filled pursuit, but will Nana join his assorted team of amnesiacs? Perhaps, but there are just eleven tiny problems Shirou will need to get rid of first...
- GenresManga
216 pages, Paperback
First published September 6, 2005
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Shōhei Manabe
125 books5 followersShōhei Manabe (真鍋昌平) is a veteran manga-ka with numerous titles under his belt, including his worldwide best seller Ushijima the Loan Shark, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was the winner of the 56th Annual Shogakukan Manga Award. Two of Manabe's manga have been made into motion pictures, including the acclaimed manga Smuggler, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2011.
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June 22, 2015
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I finally finished reading this odd serious. Honestly, I find it really hard to review graphic novels, so the next time I start a series, I will be reviewing them in bunches instead of individual volumes.
So the plot, yeah, it's a little confusing I hate to say it. Dead End is an acquired taste, it's an odd hybrid of mystery, horror, surrealism, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, psychological, maybe even a bit absurd, that could be the sparse and rough artwork though. There's a big twist at the end, and the ending was a bit unexpected and sudden for me. I enjoyed the gross out gore and the depressing existential crisis stuff, this manga was quite, literary for me. I sound pretentious, but this is really how I feel about it. My feelings are kind of confused though, because I love this, but it ended on a note that was sort of "here you go, the end."
Dead End is a series about a dude who is a bum basically, disillusioned with life, feeling as if it is all pointless. The same old routine, the same old booze and dirt.Until a girl named Lucy falls from the sky. But then as he gathers his past friends, that he had forgotten about due to some sort of erasure, he regains all of the fragments and fills in the emptiness. That's when you discover that they live in a post-apocalyptic world and that they are some sort of engineered human beings, my memory is a bit foggy. I won't talk anymore plot, because spoilers.
The artwork has improved somewhat. Manabe's art is such a breathe of fresh air like I said before. Big lips, ugly tense facial expressions, blood spattering everywhere.The buildings and scenery, lined, minimally and scratched in. I will admit that sometimes the expressions and scenery was a bit hard on the eyes, I had to squint to see what was happening in the smaller panels.
But my feelings for this series is generally positive. Maybe, I will buy my own copies, however, new copies are hard to find. Apparently it's all out of print. Shohei Manabe doesn't seem to be too popular in the U.S. So I can say that Dead End is pretty darn underrated, meaningful, and touching.
General rating for the series: 3.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot....
I finally finished reading this odd serious. Honestly, I find it really hard to review graphic novels, so the next time I start a series, I will be reviewing them in bunches instead of individual volumes.
So the plot, yeah, it's a little confusing I hate to say it. Dead End is an acquired taste, it's an odd hybrid of mystery, horror, surrealism, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, psychological, maybe even a bit absurd, that could be the sparse and rough artwork though. There's a big twist at the end, and the ending was a bit unexpected and sudden for me. I enjoyed the gross out gore and the depressing existential crisis stuff, this manga was quite, literary for me. I sound pretentious, but this is really how I feel about it. My feelings are kind of confused though, because I love this, but it ended on a note that was sort of "here you go, the end."
Dead End is a series about a dude who is a bum basically, disillusioned with life, feeling as if it is all pointless. The same old routine, the same old booze and dirt.Until a girl named Lucy falls from the sky. But then as he gathers his past friends, that he had forgotten about due to some sort of erasure, he regains all of the fragments and fills in the emptiness. That's when you discover that they live in a post-apocalyptic world and that they are some sort of engineered human beings, my memory is a bit foggy. I won't talk anymore plot, because spoilers.
The artwork has improved somewhat. Manabe's art is such a breathe of fresh air like I said before. Big lips, ugly tense facial expressions, blood spattering everywhere.The buildings and scenery, lined, minimally and scratched in. I will admit that sometimes the expressions and scenery was a bit hard on the eyes, I had to squint to see what was happening in the smaller panels.
But my feelings for this series is generally positive. Maybe, I will buy my own copies, however, new copies are hard to find. Apparently it's all out of print. Shohei Manabe doesn't seem to be too popular in the U.S. So I can say that Dead End is pretty darn underrated, meaningful, and touching.
General rating for the series: 3.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot....
August 19, 2016
This penultimate volume is pretty confusing. It's littered with flashbacks and jumps all over the place - thank goodness there is a cast list at the beginning or I would have been completely lost - I found myself referring back to that several times. Amnesiac Shirou is still trying to collect together the 'five acquaintances from the past' - this volume introduces Nana, the 4th mystery person and it seems we are on a tight schedule and time is running out.
Really struggled making sense of what exactly is going on but the characters are interesting and the artwork is growing on me - the art in this one is such an improvement on volume 1 and there are some superbly freaky weird scenes - characters with needles in their heads and eyes, warped people with ghost heads, frankenstein- esque characters.
This series is pretty unique because unlike most freaky-weird horror manga this is deeply plotty and as far from comedy as you can get. Nearest comparison I can come up with is MPD Psycho -Can't wait to see how the series ends.
Really struggled making sense of what exactly is going on but the characters are interesting and the artwork is growing on me - the art in this one is such an improvement on volume 1 and there are some superbly freaky weird scenes - characters with needles in their heads and eyes, warped people with ghost heads, frankenstein- esque characters.
This series is pretty unique because unlike most freaky-weird horror manga this is deeply plotty and as far from comedy as you can get. Nearest comparison I can come up with is MPD Psycho -Can't wait to see how the series ends.
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