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Ikigami #10
LC: Deaths Notice 10
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 negara.
"Aku tak ingin sedetik pun berada di tempat seperti ini. Aku bahkan tak ingin bernapas di sini. Pokoknya, aku harus pergi secepatnya" dari negara ini!!.
"Aku tak ingin sedetik pun berada di tempat seperti ini. Aku bahkan tak ingin bernapas di sini. Pokoknya, aku harus pergi secepatnya" dari negara ini!!.
264 pages, Paperback
First published March 30, 2012
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October 22, 2022
Geçen bunca zamanın hatrına verelim bir dört yıldız.
Seriyi takip edenler veya yazdıklarımı görenler zaten biliyor. Dilimizde tüy bitti aynı şeyleri söylemekten. Bu seri ilginç bir konsept üzerine kurulu (kimi güçlü kimi hafif) kısa hikayelerin nisbeten zayıf bir genel iskelet üzerine oturtulması şeklinde tasarlanmış. Ana öyküye ağırlık verilmemesini illa bir eksiklik olarak görmek zorunda değiliz. Final cilt başta olmak üzere gerekli bağlamalar yapılmış. Duygusallığı yerinde, Japonya sürprizi ilginç ve fakat ortalama bir finalle ve yine fakat bu durumdan şikayetçi olmadan bitiriyorum.
Totalde gayet iyi çizilmiş, derli toplu, ölüm / yaşam / politika / devlet fert ilişkileri üzerine bir şeyler söyleyen fena olmayan bir seri var karşımızda. İlk bir iki cildi okudunuz ve sizin için pek bir şey ifade etmedi mi? Seriyi bırakabilirsiniz. Başladınız ve büyük dalgalanmalar, yükselmeler olmaksızın küçük sürprizlerle bu akış bana yeter mi diyorsunuz? O zaman devam! 10 cilt gibi makul uzunlukta bir seriyi tamamlamak keyifli.
Seriyi takip edenler veya yazdıklarımı görenler zaten biliyor. Dilimizde tüy bitti aynı şeyleri söylemekten. Bu seri ilginç bir konsept üzerine kurulu (kimi güçlü kimi hafif) kısa hikayelerin nisbeten zayıf bir genel iskelet üzerine oturtulması şeklinde tasarlanmış. Ana öyküye ağırlık verilmemesini illa bir eksiklik olarak görmek zorunda değiliz. Final cilt başta olmak üzere gerekli bağlamalar yapılmış. Duygusallığı yerinde, Japonya sürprizi ilginç ve fakat ortalama bir finalle ve yine fakat bu durumdan şikayetçi olmadan bitiriyorum.
Totalde gayet iyi çizilmiş, derli toplu, ölüm / yaşam / politika / devlet fert ilişkileri üzerine bir şeyler söyleyen fena olmayan bir seri var karşımızda. İlk bir iki cildi okudunuz ve sizin için pek bir şey ifade etmedi mi? Seriyi bırakabilirsiniz. Başladınız ve büyük dalgalanmalar, yükselmeler olmaksızın küçük sürprizlerle bu akış bana yeter mi diyorsunuz? O zaman devam! 10 cilt gibi makul uzunlukta bir seriyi tamamlamak keyifli.
March 17, 2019
Two years later I finally got my hands on the last volume and finished the series. I had to read the previous synopsis just to jog back my memory and once I started reading the first few pages I seemed to remember just fine.
The events in this volume are intense and I couldn’t put this down. I’m a little confused and I’m still trying to connect the dots but overall is a great series. I may have wished for a more explosive ending or reveal considering all the events, but I wouldn’t say this ended badly either, just a bit quieter than expected.
The events in this volume are intense and I couldn’t put this down. I’m a little confused and I’m still trying to connect the dots but overall is a great series. I may have wished for a more explosive ending or reveal considering all the events, but I wouldn’t say this ended badly either, just a bit quieter than expected.
February 25, 2017
That ending... ugh. So disappointing. I wanted so much more.
April 27, 2025
overall note for the series: 3.5*
interesting concept worth exploring : do we better appreciate the value of human life through death? does a perfect peaceful society exist? can it?
Our hero delivers his last ikigami because war is coming and in order to get people to volunteer, the state has implemented and exemption for those who signed up or for a member of their family. he realises that we're all just grist for the mill of the state.
I don't want to spoil anything for anybody but I'm wondering if the ending reference to Japan is sarcastic?
interesting concept worth exploring : do we better appreciate the value of human life through death? does a perfect peaceful society exist? can it?
Our hero delivers his last ikigami because war is coming and in order to get people to volunteer, the state has implemented and exemption for those who signed up or for a member of their family. he realises that we're all just grist for the mill of the state.
I don't want to spoil anything for anybody but I'm wondering if the ending reference to Japan is sarcastic?
March 10, 2022
Aaaaaand we’re done. Story 1 is about a member of the riot police who is overly aggressive. Turns out he has a tumor on his amygdala that causes him to behave this way. He’s perfect for the riot police! Another country is coming o observe the NWP to see if they want to implement it and that country is….JAPAN!!!! Wtf is this reveal that the books do NOT take place in Japan? Apparently in the universe of these books, Japan also exists, and so does this country that also has an Ally that they fought in a Great War who dropped a Bomb and now they have a No Military Treaty because of their alliance with their Former Enemy and they have disputes with the Federation over Islands in the Sea. All the geopolitics and history dropped int he book lead you to believe this is Japan, the Federation is China, and the Ally is the US, but apparently in this world all those powers exist in addition to their fictional counterparts! Wtf! Why!!
Anyway the Japanese observer had a child with a medical condition and she blamed herself and her own body for giving her child such suffering (?? weird line of thinking but I guess I’ve never been in that situation so idk). When the NWP policeman gets his Ikigami, she begs him to reconcile with his mother but it is plain to him and to the audience that she is merely projecting her own traumas about her daughter onto the situation and hopes to achieve catharsis through him. I didn’t care that much about this story because we’ve had so much parent child shit and I was so thrown by this reveal about the existence of Japan.
The second part was finally the resolution of Fujimoto’s story. He was sent to a reeducation camp and graduated. He finds out his supervisor was a NWP agent the whole time. Kubo was also like a triple agent idk everyone is a double or triple agent. We find out the TRUE purpose of the immunization program. Because of WW2, the country can’t have a standing army. They can’t have mandatory conscription or anything like that. When war breaks out with the Federation, the government announces that volunteers for the military will be given the antidote, and if they are over 24 they can give the antidote to a family member of their choosing. So basically the entire program was to ensure that the population would be subservient enough to join the military if the country ever needed to quickly assemble a force. I actually did not see this coming as the long-game purpose of the program. Honestly this was pretty interesting time to read this because everyone is talking about a draft due to Ukraine (this is mostly due to americans needing to make everything about themselves) and the backdrop of Vaccines as a huge controversy.
Kubo and Fujimoto escape to go to Japan, which is an ambiguous ending because we know that Japan is also considering implementing the program and they might be escaping the frying pan and going into the fire. I thought it was appropriate, because Fujimoto was never a badass revolutionary so I didn’t want a super dramatic storyline where he saves the country and becomes a whistleblower. He is by nature a coward, so his deeble attempts to leak info online and then his ultimate choice to escape rather than fight the system were in line with his character. He wants to do right, but he is simply not the type to be a fighter. I was impressed with him that he rebelled at all
Overall I really enjoyed this series, I am glad I read it spread out. The last manga I read was more of a binging experience. I think if I had done that I would have gotten really fatigued and irritated with the repetitive format. Because I read it spread out, I was able to enjoy it like a short story collection. I didn’t get tired of it until the last few volumes. I did want a bit more of the Fujimoto story, but the series was definitely meant to be a more “we live in a society” commentary rather than a character study. I could probably brainstorm more parallels about anti vax and government control and military drafts given all the current events etc but I’m feeling done
Anyway the Japanese observer had a child with a medical condition and she blamed herself and her own body for giving her child such suffering (?? weird line of thinking but I guess I’ve never been in that situation so idk). When the NWP policeman gets his Ikigami, she begs him to reconcile with his mother but it is plain to him and to the audience that she is merely projecting her own traumas about her daughter onto the situation and hopes to achieve catharsis through him. I didn’t care that much about this story because we’ve had so much parent child shit and I was so thrown by this reveal about the existence of Japan.
The second part was finally the resolution of Fujimoto’s story. He was sent to a reeducation camp and graduated. He finds out his supervisor was a NWP agent the whole time. Kubo was also like a triple agent idk everyone is a double or triple agent. We find out the TRUE purpose of the immunization program. Because of WW2, the country can’t have a standing army. They can’t have mandatory conscription or anything like that. When war breaks out with the Federation, the government announces that volunteers for the military will be given the antidote, and if they are over 24 they can give the antidote to a family member of their choosing. So basically the entire program was to ensure that the population would be subservient enough to join the military if the country ever needed to quickly assemble a force. I actually did not see this coming as the long-game purpose of the program. Honestly this was pretty interesting time to read this because everyone is talking about a draft due to Ukraine (this is mostly due to americans needing to make everything about themselves) and the backdrop of Vaccines as a huge controversy.
Kubo and Fujimoto escape to go to Japan, which is an ambiguous ending because we know that Japan is also considering implementing the program and they might be escaping the frying pan and going into the fire. I thought it was appropriate, because Fujimoto was never a badass revolutionary so I didn’t want a super dramatic storyline where he saves the country and becomes a whistleblower. He is by nature a coward, so his deeble attempts to leak info online and then his ultimate choice to escape rather than fight the system were in line with his character. He wants to do right, but he is simply not the type to be a fighter. I was impressed with him that he rebelled at all
Overall I really enjoyed this series, I am glad I read it spread out. The last manga I read was more of a binging experience. I think if I had done that I would have gotten really fatigued and irritated with the repetitive format. Because I read it spread out, I was able to enjoy it like a short story collection. I didn’t get tired of it until the last few volumes. I did want a bit more of the Fujimoto story, but the series was definitely meant to be a more “we live in a society” commentary rather than a character study. I could probably brainstorm more parallels about anti vax and government control and military drafts given all the current events etc but I’m feeling done
November 21, 2022
On kitaplık seri, çok iyi bir finalle sonlandı. Zaman zaman çok uzayıp, sarstığını düşünsem de, final bölümüyle boşlukları dolduran başarılı bir seri…
Devlet (yöneticiler) birey ilişkisine başka bir bakış…
Devlet (yöneticiler) birey ilişkisine başka bir bakış…
June 29, 2024
Voto definitivo ad Ikigami (quindi per tutti e 10 i volumi): 4,5⭐️
Una storia che ho amato dall’inizio alla fine.
La struttura episodica con la trama trasversale di fondo che si sviluppa man mano si è rivelata una scelta vincente per narrare questa storia.
I singoli episodi sono tutti carichi di significato e lasciano sempre un messaggio finale molto profondo per il lettore.
La parte politica che poi culmina con gli ultimi episodi in un plot twist molto bello e inaspettato, rendono Ikigami un’opera che riesce a permanere nella mente del lettore.
Il tratto grafico di Motoro Mase fa egregiamente il suo lavoro, con toni oscuri e cupi si adatta perfettamente alla storia - Ricorda un po’lo stile dei manga degli anni 90. Alcune Splash page e tavole grandi sono veramente notevoli, restituendo il senso di disperazione dei personaggi al fruitore.
I temi trattati sono molto complessi e restano, forse oggi più che mai, attuali e degni di attenzione. Il potere politico veicola la vita dei cittadini sopprimendo qualsiasi volontà di ribellione da parte degli stessi. La guerra è uno strumento di conquista utilizzato dal potere per raggiungere i propri scopi espansionistici. Con chiari riferimenti all’opera di Orwell, Mase mette in piedi un’opera originale che delinea tutta la sua preoccupazione per gli sviluppi futuri sulla ripartizione del potere politico su scala globale.
La parte finale utilizza anche un interessantissimo espediente per confrontare il mondo come si presenta oggi e il mondo come si potrebbe presentare se le cose si mettessero diversamente. Il confronto realtà/distopia è, a mio avviso, uno dei punti più interessanti dell’opera!
Manga che colpisce e resta! DA LEGGERE!
Una storia che ho amato dall’inizio alla fine.
La struttura episodica con la trama trasversale di fondo che si sviluppa man mano si è rivelata una scelta vincente per narrare questa storia.
I singoli episodi sono tutti carichi di significato e lasciano sempre un messaggio finale molto profondo per il lettore.
La parte politica che poi culmina con gli ultimi episodi in un plot twist molto bello e inaspettato, rendono Ikigami un’opera che riesce a permanere nella mente del lettore.
Il tratto grafico di Motoro Mase fa egregiamente il suo lavoro, con toni oscuri e cupi si adatta perfettamente alla storia - Ricorda un po’lo stile dei manga degli anni 90. Alcune Splash page e tavole grandi sono veramente notevoli, restituendo il senso di disperazione dei personaggi al fruitore.
I temi trattati sono molto complessi e restano, forse oggi più che mai, attuali e degni di attenzione. Il potere politico veicola la vita dei cittadini sopprimendo qualsiasi volontà di ribellione da parte degli stessi. La guerra è uno strumento di conquista utilizzato dal potere per raggiungere i propri scopi espansionistici. Con chiari riferimenti all’opera di Orwell, Mase mette in piedi un’opera originale che delinea tutta la sua preoccupazione per gli sviluppi futuri sulla ripartizione del potere politico su scala globale.
La parte finale utilizza anche un interessantissimo espediente per confrontare il mondo come si presenta oggi e il mondo come si potrebbe presentare se le cose si mettessero diversamente. Il confronto realtà/distopia è, a mio avviso, uno dei punti più interessanti dell’opera!
Manga che colpisce e resta! DA LEGGERE!
December 30, 2022
Fazlasıyla ilgimi çeken bir seriydi. Nasıl bir final yapacağını bu işin arka planında neler olduğunu çok merak ediyordum fakat beklediğim etkiyi ve heyecanı alamadım. Klasik, şaşırtmalı bir film senaryosu gibi, okurken tahmin edeceğim bir hikaye ile son bulması beni çok üzdü. Bu hikaye senaryosunda 10 cilt olması bile bence gereksiz uzunlukta ama bu seriyi tavsiye eder misin? diye soracak olursanız, kesinlikle tavsiye ederim çünkü bazı hikayeler inanılmaz derecede etkileyici. Ben kişisel olarak sadece bu hikayenin böyle sıradan bir son ile bitmesi istemezdim.
Herkese keyifli okumalar.
Herkese keyifli okumalar.
October 23, 2022
Quick recap: Thanks to the National Welfare Act, every child in the country is given their vaccinations when they come of grade school age. One in one thousand of these vaccinations also contains a nanocapsule that migrates to the heart, where it lodges. Some time between ages 18 and 24, the capsule will stop the heart, killing the person it’s in. Only a closely guarded government database has the information about who will die when, and they have a special bureaucracy set up to tell the victim 24 hours before the capsule is scheduled to go off.
In previous volumes, we’ve been following junior bureaucrat Kengo Fujimoto and the stories of those he gives their death notices, the Ikigami. Now the series approaches its own ultimate limit.
Each multi-part story is an “episode”, much like a dramatic television story, and this series could easily be done live-action (there was in fact a movie adaptation.)
“Episode 19: Entrusted Words” focuses on Mamoru Nakagami, a member of the National Welfare Police, basically a riot cop. At first, when he joined the police, he was rather timid, but in the last few months he’s lost his sense of fear and become more willing to use force. Waay more willing to use force, and prone to violent mood swings. It’s gotten to the point that he might be a little too brutal even by riot cops standards.
Nakagami wrote this off to “bad blood” inherited from his abusive father, and has become estranged from his mother. Recently, he learned there may be another cause.
During a police action, Nakagami meets an envoy from a “friendly nation” that’s studying the National Welfare program to see if it would be right for their nation. She lost a child under heartbreaking circumstances, and when she also witnesses Nakagami being given his ikigami, tries to dictate his final actions.
Nakagami’s argument with the envoy about the proper thing to do, and living with survivor’s guilt, is the centerpiece of this episode.
It also has the first of a set of major reveals, which is so central to my feelings about this series that I’m going to be discussing it in the SPOILERS section below.
Towards the end of the episode, Fujimoto is arrested as a “social miscreant” for a small act of defiance.
“Episode 20: The Phantom Country” picks up several months later with Fujimoto being released from the Thought Reform Center where he learned to love Big Brother the National Welfare. He’s a broken man, but is now ready to serve in whatever capacity his beloved country wants him to.
As it happens, they want him to spy on another former thought criminal, his old friend Nanase Kubo. The government suspects that her conditioning may have worn off, and that she’s working with an underground group of dissenters. That could be especially bad for the country as its ally is now at war and many citizens have become combat support troops.
In the process, however, Fujimoto is subjected to several more major reveals, which shake his faith in the National Welfare. Will he be able to pull together and fulfill his mission, or fall apart at the last moment?
The series has good, detailed art (some same face), and most of the episodes have been interesting dramas in themselves. “What would you do if you knew you were dying in 24 hours?” is a solid question for creating stories. But since the story is ending, the overall premise needed to create these stories has to be resolved in some way. While the ending is still well-written, it’s not as strong as the earlier, self-contained episodes.
Content note: Police brutality, domestic violence, workplace bullying, child death, implied torture. This series is rated for “mature” viewers.
I’d recommend this series primarily to people intrigued by the central question and willing to put up with the elaborate background necessary to bring it up.
SPOILERS–proceed beyond this point at your own risk.
TV Tropes calls it a “Tomato Surprise”–some basic fact about the story’s setting or characters has been withheld from the readers until a suitably dramatic moment. Sometimes it’s something even the viewpoint character doesn’t know about themselves, “tomato in the mirror” as they discover they’ve been a tomato all along, but often it’s already known to the characters and they just never got around to mentioning it.
In this case it’s the latter. Despite all the characters looking Japanese, speaking Japanese and having Japanese names, and the culture being basically modern Japan with dystopian elements bolted on–the country we’ve been watching this entire time is not alternate history Japan. Japan is a completely separate country, which the “friendly” envoy is from, and the country’s “ally” is not the United States.
And looking back through the volumes, we can see that the author never actually said the country was Japan. We’ve never seen the country’s flag or had any real city’s name mentioned. It’s always been “this nation” or “our ally.” And it shares just enough history with Japan to be misleading.
How do I feel about the twist? Mixed. As a conceptual twist, it’s excellent. It completely blindsided me and was well executed.
On the other hand, I feel it undercuts the social satire aspect of the premise. The alternate Earth’s Japan is exactly like our own, and is described as “respecting the value of life” so doesn’t need the National Welfare Act. Instead of the story being, “this could be us on a slightly different path”, it’s “this is something we should not do.”
It would be like a story in which a typical, seemingly American small city slowly falls under the control of a fascist group under the guise of patriotism, and despite all the characters having American-sounding names, American accents, and typical American habits and viewpoints, in the next to last chapter, we find out this is an entirely separate country, and “real Americans would never fall for this shit.”
By comparison, the big twists revealing the true purpose of the National Welfare Act pale. Sure, they are in-universe earth-shattering, but the set-up smelled suspicious from the beginning, so we were expecting the truth to be sinister.
So I cannot recommend this series as whole-heartedly as I would like. The pieces are still fine, but the superstructure is weakened.
END SPOILERS
In previous volumes, we’ve been following junior bureaucrat Kengo Fujimoto and the stories of those he gives their death notices, the Ikigami. Now the series approaches its own ultimate limit.
Each multi-part story is an “episode”, much like a dramatic television story, and this series could easily be done live-action (there was in fact a movie adaptation.)
“Episode 19: Entrusted Words” focuses on Mamoru Nakagami, a member of the National Welfare Police, basically a riot cop. At first, when he joined the police, he was rather timid, but in the last few months he’s lost his sense of fear and become more willing to use force. Waay more willing to use force, and prone to violent mood swings. It’s gotten to the point that he might be a little too brutal even by riot cops standards.
Nakagami wrote this off to “bad blood” inherited from his abusive father, and has become estranged from his mother. Recently, he learned there may be another cause.
During a police action, Nakagami meets an envoy from a “friendly nation” that’s studying the National Welfare program to see if it would be right for their nation. She lost a child under heartbreaking circumstances, and when she also witnesses Nakagami being given his ikigami, tries to dictate his final actions.
Nakagami’s argument with the envoy about the proper thing to do, and living with survivor’s guilt, is the centerpiece of this episode.
It also has the first of a set of major reveals, which is so central to my feelings about this series that I’m going to be discussing it in the SPOILERS section below.
Towards the end of the episode, Fujimoto is arrested as a “social miscreant” for a small act of defiance.
“Episode 20: The Phantom Country” picks up several months later with Fujimoto being released from the Thought Reform Center where he learned to love Big Brother the National Welfare. He’s a broken man, but is now ready to serve in whatever capacity his beloved country wants him to.
As it happens, they want him to spy on another former thought criminal, his old friend Nanase Kubo. The government suspects that her conditioning may have worn off, and that she’s working with an underground group of dissenters. That could be especially bad for the country as its ally is now at war and many citizens have become combat support troops.
In the process, however, Fujimoto is subjected to several more major reveals, which shake his faith in the National Welfare. Will he be able to pull together and fulfill his mission, or fall apart at the last moment?
The series has good, detailed art (some same face), and most of the episodes have been interesting dramas in themselves. “What would you do if you knew you were dying in 24 hours?” is a solid question for creating stories. But since the story is ending, the overall premise needed to create these stories has to be resolved in some way. While the ending is still well-written, it’s not as strong as the earlier, self-contained episodes.
Content note: Police brutality, domestic violence, workplace bullying, child death, implied torture. This series is rated for “mature” viewers.
I’d recommend this series primarily to people intrigued by the central question and willing to put up with the elaborate background necessary to bring it up.
SPOILERS–proceed beyond this point at your own risk.
TV Tropes calls it a “Tomato Surprise”–some basic fact about the story’s setting or characters has been withheld from the readers until a suitably dramatic moment. Sometimes it’s something even the viewpoint character doesn’t know about themselves, “tomato in the mirror” as they discover they’ve been a tomato all along, but often it’s already known to the characters and they just never got around to mentioning it.
In this case it’s the latter. Despite all the characters looking Japanese, speaking Japanese and having Japanese names, and the culture being basically modern Japan with dystopian elements bolted on–the country we’ve been watching this entire time is not alternate history Japan. Japan is a completely separate country, which the “friendly” envoy is from, and the country’s “ally” is not the United States.
And looking back through the volumes, we can see that the author never actually said the country was Japan. We’ve never seen the country’s flag or had any real city’s name mentioned. It’s always been “this nation” or “our ally.” And it shares just enough history with Japan to be misleading.
How do I feel about the twist? Mixed. As a conceptual twist, it’s excellent. It completely blindsided me and was well executed.
On the other hand, I feel it undercuts the social satire aspect of the premise. The alternate Earth’s Japan is exactly like our own, and is described as “respecting the value of life” so doesn’t need the National Welfare Act. Instead of the story being, “this could be us on a slightly different path”, it’s “this is something we should not do.”
It would be like a story in which a typical, seemingly American small city slowly falls under the control of a fascist group under the guise of patriotism, and despite all the characters having American-sounding names, American accents, and typical American habits and viewpoints, in the next to last chapter, we find out this is an entirely separate country, and “real Americans would never fall for this shit.”
By comparison, the big twists revealing the true purpose of the National Welfare Act pale. Sure, they are in-universe earth-shattering, but the set-up smelled suspicious from the beginning, so we were expecting the truth to be sinister.
So I cannot recommend this series as whole-heartedly as I would like. The pieces are still fine, but the superstructure is weakened.
END SPOILERS
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 15, 2017
J'avais un peu peur d'avoir vu venir le punch final (on me l'avait beaucoup vendu), mais finalement ça n'a pas été ce que je pensais. Les gens avaient raison : ça se tient, c'est surprenant et assez horrible. Dans l'ensemble, une très bonne série, haletante et bien ficelée.
Dix tomes, c'est bien en masse, ça commençait à être un tantinet répétitif vers la fin, de là les "4 étoiles" pour quelques tomes avant la grande finale.
J'ai un gros bémol à mentionner : la sous-représentation des femmes dans l'ensemble de la série. C'est à la fois dommage et... vraiment bizarre. Il doit y avoir un ratio de 7 hommes pour 1 femme dans chaque livre. Et encore là, les seules femmes qu'on voit ont souvent des rôles de faire-valoir ou sont carrément des femmes battues. Très, très ordinaire.
Dix tomes, c'est bien en masse, ça commençait à être un tantinet répétitif vers la fin, de là les "4 étoiles" pour quelques tomes avant la grande finale.
J'ai un gros bémol à mentionner : la sous-représentation des femmes dans l'ensemble de la série. C'est à la fois dommage et... vraiment bizarre. Il doit y avoir un ratio de 7 hommes pour 1 femme dans chaque livre. Et encore là, les seules femmes qu'on voit ont souvent des rôles de faire-valoir ou sont carrément des femmes battues. Très, très ordinaire.
October 13, 2022
dans ce dernier tome, c'est la guerre... et la menace peut venir de partout 🤐
un joli plot twist que je n'ai pas vu venir pour conclure cette série de manga au concept original et effrayant de réalisme !! une fin qui retrouve le dynamisme des premiers tomes, mais qui me laisse un peu déçue face à la "morale patriotique"... on dénonce justement la propagande nationaliste d'un régime dystopique pendant une série entière, pour que l'auteur japonais finisse par faire l'éloge de son propre pays ("un pays sans guerre, sans cette loi honteuse. je sais que je pourrais y trouver le bonheur")... alors oui mais le concept entier de la série perd tout son intérêt du coup?? bref, pas trop compris cette fin, dommage😕
3★ pour la série
un joli plot twist que je n'ai pas vu venir pour conclure cette série de manga au concept original et effrayant de réalisme !! une fin qui retrouve le dynamisme des premiers tomes, mais qui me laisse un peu déçue face à la "morale patriotique"... on dénonce justement la propagande nationaliste d'un régime dystopique pendant une série entière, pour que l'auteur japonais finisse par faire l'éloge de son propre pays ("un pays sans guerre, sans cette loi honteuse. je sais que je pourrais y trouver le bonheur")... alors oui mais le concept entier de la série perd tout son intérêt du coup?? bref, pas trop compris cette fin, dommage😕
3★ pour la série
July 18, 2015
Ha! The shocker in this final volume is to find out that the nation that has Ikigami was not Japan all along, but some other East Asian nation that has the same language and culture as Japan. And this unnamed East Asian nation is not recognised as sovereign by another nation that is simply called Federation.
It's funny that this occurs in a completely alternate universe with a different map... It's almost like having two Koreas, but in this case, the "nation" and Japan are two separate countries sharing Japanese language and culture.
Overall, the ending is superb. It couldn't end better than it does.
It's funny that this occurs in a completely alternate universe with a different map... It's almost like having two Koreas, but in this case, the "nation" and Japan are two separate countries sharing Japanese language and culture.
Overall, the ending is superb. It couldn't end better than it does.
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August 18, 2016
Woah. What a climatic ending to this series!!!! Fujmoto has serious balls and holy crap was I not expecting Ishii at all! Kubo makes another appearance as well as Kaga. Just all around a great ending and tie up of the loose ends. Definitely glad I found this manga at the library!
March 30, 2023
The true purpose of the National Welfare Act is revealed. It requires all-out war to bring everything into the light. The revelation makes more sense than having people appreciate life more, but the ending is a bit forced. Still, this is a solid series that is accessible and easy to recommend.
May 28, 2025
İlginç bir distopik konsept, ana karakterimiz bir ikigami dağıtıcısı, ikigami bir çeşit devlet belgesi ve toplumda her 1000 kişiden 1 kişi 20'li yaşlarında ikigami alıyor, ikigami alan kişi de 24 saat içinde kanına çocukken enjekte edilmiş bir mikroçiple hayatını kaybediyor ve şehitlik mertebesine yükseliyor, bu şekilde nüfus kontrolü sağlanıyor ve de hayatın değeri anlatılmaya çalışılıyor. Tabii ki bu devletin dayatması ve buna isyan eden insanlar da var ama baskıcı bir rejim olduğu için yasanın aksi hakkında konuşmak bile suç teşkil ediyor.
Seri boyunca son 24 saati kalmış bir çok insanın hayatına dahil oluyorsunuz ve yer yer çok anlamlı hikayeler çıkıyor. Bir yandan ana karakterimizin hikayesini de yaşıyoruz ama haliylen biraz yavaş ilerliyor ve derinleşmiyor da. Bu tarafı biraz zayıf kalmış bence. Onun dışında ilgi çekici bir seri oldu benim için.
Seri boyunca son 24 saati kalmış bir çok insanın hayatına dahil oluyorsunuz ve yer yer çok anlamlı hikayeler çıkıyor. Bir yandan ana karakterimizin hikayesini de yaşıyoruz ama haliylen biraz yavaş ilerliyor ve derinleşmiyor da. Bu tarafı biraz zayıf kalmış bence. Onun dışında ilgi çekici bir seri oldu benim için.
April 16, 2022
I loved how this series ended. I’m so glad we finally got a volume that primarily focused on Fujimoto. The betrayal he experienced from a character we’ve known since volume 1 genuinely shocked me, I never thought that would happen… it never even crossed my mind! Also not entirely surprised to find out the National Welfare Act was simply propaganda to get people to enlist in the armed forces. Very nice twist. Overall, I’m so happy I found this series while randomly looking through a comments section about underrated manga on Twitter. Very content and satisfied with Fujimoto finally taking a stand, smashing his inner turmoil, and having a happy ending.
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November 13, 2022
Bref, « Ikigami » me laisse, à l’instar de 1984 de George Orwell, un sentiment d’inachevé à la lecture de ce dernier tome. J’ai beaucoup aimé les histoires contées et les thèmes explorés mais j’aurais aimé un meilleur équilibre dans le rythme, qui est trop lent au début et trop rapide sur la fin. Je n’ai pas apprécié cette fuite en avant des personnages et ce dénouement laissé à l’abandon. Je retiendrai donc seulement les récits individuels de ces sacrifiés et la morale qui ressort de chacune de ces histoires.
December 16, 2022
Genel olarak seriyi değerlendirmem gerekirse, gayet güzel bir konuyla başladığını, hem ikigami alanların hem de ailelerinin duygularını gayet iyi yansıttığını ancak serinin ortalarına yaklaşırken bir isyan beklediğimi ancak beklentimin boşa çıktığını söylemeliyim. Son kitapta anca bu kıvılcımı ve faaliyete geçmeyi görebildik. İkigamiler ve savaş bağlantısını zayıf buldum. Çok tatmin etmedi ama okuması keyifliydi.
September 23, 2024
Llgamos al final. Después de una última amarga entrega de anuncio de muerte a un joven agente del orden con un historial de fuerza exesiva llegamos a conocer el verdadero propósito del acta de prosperidad nacional. Nos deja con una sensación opresiva en el pecho haciéndonos cuestinar la moralidad de los sistemas sociales de los que formamos parte y sobre todo las agendas de aquellos que los impulsan.
January 26, 2023
Fin de la série, plutôt prenante après un ensemble qui aura été assez répétitif et des fois long, mais au final… peut-être pas pour rien. Je comprends mieux pourquoi une suite est en cours de publication au Japon, j’espère qu’elle sortira chez nous. En tout cas, un manga intéressant, qui rappelle pas mal la situation actuelle du monde, ce qui fait assez peur !
September 29, 2024
Though I did find this to be pretty repetitive and the main plot developed very slowly, I guess I can't deny that those make sense in the context of this story. This was a pretty enjoyable read but other than the premise it's easily forgettable
September 9, 2025
Δε τρελάθηκα με το τέλος της σειράς.
Βρήκα ενδιαφέρον αυτο το σχήμα με τον κοινωνικό ολοκληρωτισμό ως ξεγέλασμα και γέφυρα για τη φρίκη του πολέμου.
Πολυ πιο ενδιαφέρον απο το 1984 και τα υπόλοιπα βιβλία αυτής της παράδοσης (της λογοτεχνίας του ολοκληρωτισμου εναντιον του ατόμου)
Βρήκα ενδιαφέρον αυτο το σχήμα με τον κοινωνικό ολοκληρωτισμό ως ξεγέλασμα και γέφυρα για τη φρίκη του πολέμου.
Πολυ πιο ενδιαφέρον απο το 1984 και τα υπόλοιπα βιβλία αυτής της παράδοσης (της λογοτεχνίας του ολοκληρωτισμου εναντιον του ατόμου)
September 17, 2017
Une fin satisfaisante pour une série qui aura eu des épisodes très marquants.
April 25, 2018
Final apoteósico, merece la pena aguantar el tirón. Después de todo, son sólo 10 tomos, que disfruté mucho.
October 14, 2022
Dang. A massively passive ending but an interesting reason for the shots. Hm.
May 29, 2024
What a great serie, finishes all parts, would reread it in the future
July 15, 2024
Gerçekten çok güzel bir sondu. Özellikle son cilt 1984 ya da Cesur Yeni Dünya gibi hissettirdi.
September 24, 2024
Final nada malo. Vendo colección de manga "Ikigami" completa. 60€.
October 2, 2024
oh shit, what a terrible ending!
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