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My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition #2
My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2
The classic science fiction–horror manga of humanity and artificial intelligence from the mind of Kazuo Umezz, creator of The Drifting Classroom, Orochi, and Cat-Eyed Boy.
Satoru has been meeting up with Marin at his father’s factory to spend time with the curious robot Monroe. But their secret has been misinterpreted by the town gossip mill. As rumors start to spread about a budding romance between the two, Marin makes a decision that will forever impact her relationship with both Satoru and Monroe and change all of their lives in unexpected ways.
Satoru has been meeting up with Marin at his father’s factory to spend time with the curious robot Monroe. But their secret has been misinterpreted by the town gossip mill. As rumors start to spread about a budding romance between the two, Marin makes a decision that will forever impact her relationship with both Satoru and Monroe and change all of their lives in unexpected ways.
480 pages, Hardcover
Published June 25, 2024
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November 18, 2024
Monroe, Marin and Satoru. Nothing can go wrong when you are an outcast, alone in the world, using love as a way to escape the reality of life and think this is the only way to grow up and be your own person.
What is the worst thing that can happen when one of your best friends (an industrial size supercomputer) only knows what you taught it, and all that was; your name, your face, your secrets.
What is the answer when both of your friends are at risk? One is locked away in a factory, and the other is moving across the world. Who do you pick?
How do two kids get married, make a baby and run away from their families to be happy?
“Jump from the top of 333” is the answer.
LR
What is the worst thing that can happen when one of your best friends (an industrial size supercomputer) only knows what you taught it, and all that was; your name, your face, your secrets.
What is the answer when both of your friends are at risk? One is locked away in a factory, and the other is moving across the world. Who do you pick?
How do two kids get married, make a baby and run away from their families to be happy?
“Jump from the top of 333” is the answer.
LR
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February 11, 2025
even the beautiful art style was not enough to save this one. truly what did i just read.................
i have so many questions. like why make wanting to get married and have children a plot point for two CHILDREN characters? why have them attempt to jump off a high tower? why make them eventually do it in the end? why provide no resolution for said action? no plot, no character development, no great dialogue, no believable story, only weird ass storylines written by the author for what reason? to be creepy and weird? idk the whole thing felt like it was pandering to a certain audience.
idk, honestly. weird. bad weird. pissed me off weird.
i have so many questions. like why make wanting to get married and have children a plot point for two CHILDREN characters? why have them attempt to jump off a high tower? why make them eventually do it in the end? why provide no resolution for said action? no plot, no character development, no great dialogue, no believable story, only weird ass storylines written by the author for what reason? to be creepy and weird? idk the whole thing felt like it was pandering to a certain audience.
idk, honestly. weird. bad weird. pissed me off weird.
July 3, 2025
4.5
For a story that came out about 40 years ago, it manages to talk about robots taking jobs, robots giving advise, young love and his adults don’t care she be a truly gripping story.
The horror in it doesn’t stem from being gory, but instead how human the children are, and how they react to the world. And also the panels that are the machine evolving into greater intelligence are amazing.
For a story that came out about 40 years ago, it manages to talk about robots taking jobs, robots giving advise, young love and his adults don’t care she be a truly gripping story.
The horror in it doesn’t stem from being gory, but instead how human the children are, and how they react to the world. And also the panels that are the machine evolving into greater intelligence are amazing.
August 11, 2024
Unhinged
September 20, 2025
Satoru and Marin's relationship blossoms into love as the two of them work together with childish curiosity to teach the computer Monroe. Sadly, parents decide that the kids are spending too much time together, then changes in the factory mean Satoru's father lost his job and the two no longer have free access to Monroe either.
Parents continued to ignore their children's pleas that they were in love until things escalated further. Marin runs away; Satoru barely finds her in time; and the two plan to have a child, thus proving that they're adults and their parents can't keep them apart. Problem is that they're children and don't know how to make a baby. So they break into the factory to ask Monroe who gives them... questionable advise.
I didn't expect to feel so sorry for these two kids. Like, their "love story" was really convincing, then the ending had me on the edge of my seat the whole time because it's either going to end in disaster, or something magical will happen, but then it ends in a cliffhanger!
This series has 6 volumes.
Parents continued to ignore their children's pleas that they were in love until things escalated further. Marin runs away; Satoru barely finds her in time; and the two plan to have a child, thus proving that they're adults and their parents can't keep them apart. Problem is that they're children and don't know how to make a baby. So they break into the factory to ask Monroe who gives them... questionable advise.
I didn't expect to feel so sorry for these two kids. Like, their "love story" was really convincing, then the ending had me on the edge of my seat the whole time because it's either going to end in disaster, or something magical will happen, but then it ends in a cliffhanger!
This series has 6 volumes.
October 17, 2024
Thank you NetGalley and Viz Media for this arc!!
5 / 5 stars
I am absolutely loving this series so far! I opened this volume up tonight thinking I'd just read a chapter or two and oops I read all 480 pages in one sitting 😂 Marin and Satoru are such sweet kids in love, and they love their robot friend Monroe - but being kids with parents that belittle and control them they unfortunately put too much faith into what Monroe tells them. I am so glad these are getting translated; I love the art style and the story, and I honestly desperately need to know what happens next I'M CONCERNED
5 / 5 stars
I am absolutely loving this series so far! I opened this volume up tonight thinking I'd just read a chapter or two and oops I read all 480 pages in one sitting 😂 Marin and Satoru are such sweet kids in love, and they love their robot friend Monroe - but being kids with parents that belittle and control them they unfortunately put too much faith into what Monroe tells them. I am so glad these are getting translated; I love the art style and the story, and I honestly desperately need to know what happens next I'M CONCERNED
June 9, 2024
CW: suicide
In this second volume of what continues to be a slow-burn sci fi series from manga great Kazuo Umezz, it becomes much more clear what's at stake: humanity. Not, to be clear, its ultimate fate, or at least not yet, but rather what happens when people don't listen to each other or are taken in by what machines tell them. Marin and Satoru, the children who began teaching manufacturing machine "Monroe" in the previous volume, have fallen madly in twelve-year-old love, but none of the adults believe them. This takes them to some dangerous places as they desperately try to validate their feelings, but when they ask Monroe for help, the machine gives them something very, very dangerous. These aren't children who slipped through society's cracks; they're kids who are clearly loved, but they need more from the adults in their lives, which is what leads them to seek it from each other and Monroe. It's a dangerous journey, and one they may not come back from.
This still isn't going to work for everyone, and I think that's actually more true of this second volume, because it gets into some very fraught territory. The science fiction elements are growing a bit stronger, but right now the base story still feels like it's primarily about people looking for connections, possibly in the worst places. It's well done, but what it's doing is still a bit unclear.
In this second volume of what continues to be a slow-burn sci fi series from manga great Kazuo Umezz, it becomes much more clear what's at stake: humanity. Not, to be clear, its ultimate fate, or at least not yet, but rather what happens when people don't listen to each other or are taken in by what machines tell them. Marin and Satoru, the children who began teaching manufacturing machine "Monroe" in the previous volume, have fallen madly in twelve-year-old love, but none of the adults believe them. This takes them to some dangerous places as they desperately try to validate their feelings, but when they ask Monroe for help, the machine gives them something very, very dangerous. These aren't children who slipped through society's cracks; they're kids who are clearly loved, but they need more from the adults in their lives, which is what leads them to seek it from each other and Monroe. It's a dangerous journey, and one they may not come back from.
This still isn't going to work for everyone, and I think that's actually more true of this second volume, because it gets into some very fraught territory. The science fiction elements are growing a bit stronger, but right now the base story still feels like it's primarily about people looking for connections, possibly in the worst places. It's well done, but what it's doing is still a bit unclear.
June 26, 2025
Honestly, better than the first volume but still weird in a lot of ways. I kept reading because the plotline of the kids running away to get married/have children of their own was absurd in an almost funny way. Still feels like the main story hasn't really kicked off, but will see.
August 24, 2024
Interesting, dramatic, but the drama felt over the top for me. Creative art and design.
November 27, 2024
What an ending bro
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March 15, 2025this might be my favorite umezz series
June 27, 2025
hoping this is truly slow burn horror and not a flop
October 3, 2025
This is so good immediately had to pick up Vol.3
October 12, 2025
The art is superb. The story is engaging. The pacing can feel a bit inconsistent at times but overall it's been a great experience so far!
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