LC: Deaths Notice 09

Ikigami #9

by Motorō Mase

Di negara ini ada hukum yang disebut UU Pemeliharaan Kemakmuran Negara. Ikigami (surat pemberitahuan kematian) akan diberikan bagi orang-orang terpilih, yang kemudian akan mati demi menjaga kemakmuran negara.

Tahu apa kau?! Takdir? Kehormatan?
Gara-gara dia "Aku" Aku sudah mati!! "Drama yang mengguncang jiwa jilid 9!!

Genres: Manga, Seinen, Science Fiction, Comics, Dystopia, Graphic Novels

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2011

About the author

Kanji Name: 間瀬元朗.

Reviews

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally some fighting back.

[Toni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seems like we’re finally getting somewhere

[Dustyloup · Rating 4 out of 5]

after a couple volumes of treading water, the intrigue picks up. people are ready to fight back against the insanity of randomly killing 1/1000 young adults with a vaccine that they were required to have upon entering primary school. and what's happening outside this "peaceful" country?

war is headed for them, but why??

[John Blacksad · Rating 3 out of 5]

İkigami Cilt 9 / Sona bir kala ne desem bilemedim. Ortalama (ve/veya) üzeri diyebileceğimiz bir manga bu. Ben severek okudum, okuyorum. Fakat her incelemede söylediğim gibi büyük planda bir öykü var (gibi) fakat bir cilt kalmasına rağmen halen yeterince güçlü değil. Şu haliyle daha yavaş, şok edici olmayan bir final bekliyorum. Aksi olursa keyifle şaşırırım. Dokuzuncu cildi de beğenerek okudum. Yine ikigami’nin gittiği hikayeler (özellikle ilki) başarılıydı. Medikal temaları da eli yüzü düzgün işlemişler. Artık detayları sonuncu ve onuncu cilt çıktıktan sonra konuşuruz. Yalnız @goodreads de türkçe edisyonu bulamadım. Daha önceki ciltler vardı. Artık sadece kütüphaneciler ekleme yapabiliyor @marmaracizgi yayınlarını @goodreads e hızla eklerse okumak da yorumlamak da daha keyifli olacak #ikigami #motoromase #türkçemanga

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story 1 is about a sensitive NICU nurse. She gets really angry when parents of preemies choose to stop treatment because they do not want to deal with having a disabled child. When she is served with an Ikigami she makes a big scene at the immunization hall where the kindergartners are getting their shots. Her boss, a doctor, is there. He is consumed with guilt for the time that one of the kids he injected got an Ikigami. Despite all the similarities, I hadn’t really thought of this story in conversation with the discourse around either abortion (sanctity of life stuff) or Anti-Vaxxers. The nurse’s mother died in childbirth with her so she and her father have a personal connection to the issue of preemie babies and at-risk pregnancies. Personally if I am ever in a high risk pregnancy situation, I want to save me and not the baby because I can have another baby but my partner would be losing me and have to take care of a newborn. Of course sometimes it’s not always possible and you never know how things will work out. Anyway, she makes her big scene and the doctor goes apeshit and starts injecting himself with a bunch of vaccines???? Later the father of the nurse confronts Fujimoto, and the shadowy figure that has been following Fujimoto rushes to his defense. Turns out he wasn’t spying on Fujimoto, he was assigned as his bodyguard. The nurses’s whole scene galvanizes all the mothers in the crowd to be against the vaccinations.

Story 2 is kinda convoluted. There’s a pair of boys and one pees his pants in the kindergarten vaccine line, causing the second boy to move up a spot. Turns out their grandfathers had both served in the war and a similar situation happened involving killing a prisoner which then resulted in being executed for war crimes. They also both stopped the other from playing a sport idk the whole point was about Chance and Fate. I could see what the author was doing here illustrating the parallel stories, how being chosen is completely random, but the story in this one was too complex for such a short amount of time. It was easy enough to follow, but hard to feel emotional heft.

Meanwhile China (or “the federation”) is acting aggressively toward Japan. Characters are wondering whether the US will actually come to Japan’s aid. Fujimoto finds out that Kubo has been successfully re-educated and is working in a flower shop. He goes to visit her and she’s totally brainwashed. He continues on his internal struggle.

I am getting so fatigued of the vignettes bc I GET IT! And I want Fujimoto’s story to MOVE ON! hOW IS THIs going to get resolved in 1 more volume???

[47Time · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nurse Oba is passionate about work, even to the point of personal involvement in her patients. Doctors view this as a weakness and proof of lack of professionalism. She is assigned to work with dr. Nishikawa who has been having adverse thoughts about the Act since one of the kids he immunized received his ikigami. The family accused the doctor and he took it personally, shifting from being emotionally involved in his patients, to being cold. Oba receives an ikigami on the day more children are scheduled for their shots. She takes a child from the waiting line as a hostage and deliveres an anti-Act speech that moves every parent there. She then declares she will commit suicide. Nishikawa stops her by showing the children that the shot is not painful or dangerous. He injects himself several times, prompting Oba to rush to him at which point she is arrested. Later he quits his job and because of this is approched by members of an anti-Act group. He joins them, to be one more voice against the establishment.

Fujimoto learns that the man who was following him is in fact a bodyguard. Kaga assigned him to Fujimoto to prevent his ending up in a coma like her husband who was assaulted while delivering an ikigami. He also learns about Kubo's fate. She was reeducated, so Fujimoto visits her at her flower shop. It's like talking to a broken doll. (She loves Big Brother.) Fujimoto feels responsible for destroying her personality and reconsiders acting against the establishment.

Meanwhile it looks like war is brewing. The neighboring Federation is flexing its muscles, but Fujimoto's country has an Ally whose army is the largest in the world. They weren't always allies, so some are concerned that their Ally won't protect them.

Yoshiki is a regular young man. He could have been special if he had been able to continue playing soccer. A accidental injury caused by a colleague named Futaba prevented him from pursuing his dream. Yoshiki decides he can't hold a grudge against Futaba, until he remembers that, because Futaba wet his pants, he upset the waiting line and Yoshiki got the nanocapsule in the vaccine. It's a scenario that mimicks what his grandfather did during the war. Yoshiki's granfather wet his pants when he was ordered to execute a prisoner. Futaba's grandfather was ordered to do it instead and was later tried and executed for war crimes. Now Yoshiki wants revenge on Futaba, but his grandfather steps in front of the boy and gets stabbed instead. Yoshiki screams in despair until his breathes his last at the appointed time. The grandfather doesn't die, but the police do make accusations and discredit his family's name.

[Marcelo Flores · Rating 4 out of 5]

Se acerca el climax. Una enfermera que, al recibir su anuncio de muerte, se busca destruir el sitema que inocula a niños con la misma vacuna letal que ahora la condena. Su lucha interna la lleva a una confrontación desesperada que cuestiona el sistema, mientras uno de los doctores muestra hasta qué punto está dispuesto a llegar para comprender su sufrimiento. La segunda historia narra la amarga venganza de un joven cuya carrera como futbolista fue destruida por un accidente, y cómo las cicatrices del pasado familiar complican la búsqueda de justicia. Dolor y culpa son lo que poco a poco van abriendo los ojos de nuestro repartidor protagonista.

[ingeburge · Rating 2 out of 5]

un neuvième volume un peu en dessous, mais qui donne le ton pour le dernier tome qui s'annonce loin d'être paisible. je n'ai juste pas réussi à accrocher entre l'avancée simultanée de l'histoire du personnage principal, les receveurs d'ikigami qui vivent leur dernière journée et la menace de la guerre qui s'abat sur ce monde dystopique...
je me lance quand même dans le 10e et dernier volume en espérant que l'auteur ait gardé le meilleur pour la fin🤞🤫

[ReadingFrog · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars.

[Levent Erikli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yoşikilerin olayı çok iyiydi ilahi adaletin vücut bulmuş hali gibi, belkide dini kaynaklardan edinilen bilgilerin bir derlemesiydi. ikigamiler içinde ilk 3 e girer bana göre

[Mikael Kuoppala · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Penultimate volume in this softly but chillingly dystopian saga gets more directly political and urgent.

First we get a story about a nurse employed by the state to administer random death capsules in immunization shots to schoolchildren. I have wondered about a story like that; one that would present us with the people who physically administer the death shots meant to increase young people’s appreciation of life. This time we not only get a glimpse into those people’s heads but a tale of political dissidence.

The second story takes us into the national conflict only hinted at previously. The future Japan presented in “Ikigami” is about to enter what seems to be an expansionist war. It would appear that the finale of a series excelling in deeply personal stories might switch its presentation to the geopolitical scale.

[Philippe Lhoste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Le héros à échappé à l'inspection regardant s'il est subversif. L'inspectrice le pense clair, mais influençable par les éléments rebelles.
On voit d'ailleurs des gens s'interrogeant de plus en plus sur cette loi injuste et visiblement inutile. En particulier un médecin, torturé par le fait qu'il doive injecter cette substance de mort alors que sa vocation est de sauver des vies.
Il se dessine progressivement une révolte, larvée du fait de la répression féroce de l'opposition, mais réelle, chez des gens ordinaire, pas des héros. Cela, plus des troubles extérieures, laisse à penser que le système va éclater.
Une bonne série, qui prend son temps, mais avance vers sa conclusion.

[Christiane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still going strong in the 9th volume! I think this series works so well because it is basically a collection of short stories, different people get the ikigami and react in different ways. Recommended for teens and adults.

[Skjam! · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume turns up the heat on Fujimoto.

More at my general series review on my blog, SKJAM! Reviews.

http://www.skjam.com/2014/06/13/manga...

[Nama Masoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so badass and freakin awesome !

Review to come

All told : surprising 5 stars after the whole shame of vol.8

[C.C. · Rating 3 out of 5]

English Volume not on database, so using this French version.

[Lupe Dominguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Woah. This is just getting deeper and deeper. Impending war, social miscreants...lots of choices for Fujimoto.

[Jelke Lenaerts · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ongoing storyline is going where I expected it to. At least I think so. It isn't that clear.
I'm really excited to see how this is going to wrap up in one volume as so much is happening.

[Tarot · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5 stars