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My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition #3
My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 3
When Satoru is dragged off to Niigata and Marin to England, the robot Monroe is left alone at the factory. The abandoned Monroe then escapes, leaving all three friends to face the world without one another.
288 pages, Hardcover
Published October 22, 2024
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February 16, 2025
Max 10
Art : 10
Well it's Kazuo Umezz..so very recognisable art and very stylized..just like THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM
Writing : 8
The writing goes where the plot goes...so it's totally out of left field sometimes.
Storyline : 8
Characters drift in/out...new weird happenings occur...so it's just as expected
Art : 10
Well it's Kazuo Umezz..so very recognisable art and very stylized..just like THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM
Writing : 8
The writing goes where the plot goes...so it's totally out of left field sometimes.
Storyline : 8
Characters drift in/out...new weird happenings occur...so it's just as expected
October 24, 2024
Another cliffhanger, I wish Vol. 4 was out.
December 20, 2024
(Review for Volumes 1 to 3)
I was so impressed by The Disappearing Classroom that I've decided to blind buy anything I see by Kazuo Umezz.
This is not always a great strategy - I have no freaking clue what's happening in Orochi, but MNIS is absolutely incredible. Satoru is a rather silly little child running a few developmental clock cycles behind his classmates at the start of the narrative, more interested in being the class clown / terror than anything else.
In keeping with his rather childish proclivities, he gets very excited on hearing a robot - Monroe - is being installed in his father's workplace. After overcoming his disappointment at the robot not being a mecha of the sort his anime and film powered imagination hoped it would be, Satoru starts to make quicker progress with the robot than any of the adults, unlocking a wide range of features and use cases. He is soon joined in this by his crush Marin.
However, the adult world intervenes with Marin about to relocate to London and the young lovers make a last minute plan to elope, marry and rather disturbingly 'have a child'. Despite this being probably relevant to the way 12 year olds think, it still left me feeling just a bit squeamish.
On asking Monroe how to have a child, it recommends they leap off 333 which sets Satoru and Marin on a trek up a 333 metre tower - managing to generate a spark of consciousness in Monroe just as they jump (to the relative safety of a waiting helicopter). Monroe soon decides to work to its own agenda and abandons the factory it is based in, deriving consciousness from a variety of bizarre inputs from cannibalistic rats, to corpses of gangsters executed in an open air dump.
I'm amazed at how relevant this book has become all over again.
Originally written in the 1980s when the automation of supply chains and production lines brought with them deep social anxieties and the defenestration of an entire class of workers from the social mobility they'd come to take for granted, it seems shockingly relevant at a time when GenAI seems set to do the same thing to a far wider swathe of society, sparing only the very young and adaptable.
MNIS like TDC is bursting with ideas and imagination and truly exceptional art, particularly as Monroe languishes in the biomechanical wasteland of the garbage dump. I can't wait for the remaining installments of the series.
I was so impressed by The Disappearing Classroom that I've decided to blind buy anything I see by Kazuo Umezz.
This is not always a great strategy - I have no freaking clue what's happening in Orochi, but MNIS is absolutely incredible. Satoru is a rather silly little child running a few developmental clock cycles behind his classmates at the start of the narrative, more interested in being the class clown / terror than anything else.
In keeping with his rather childish proclivities, he gets very excited on hearing a robot - Monroe - is being installed in his father's workplace. After overcoming his disappointment at the robot not being a mecha of the sort his anime and film powered imagination hoped it would be, Satoru starts to make quicker progress with the robot than any of the adults, unlocking a wide range of features and use cases. He is soon joined in this by his crush Marin.
However, the adult world intervenes with Marin about to relocate to London and the young lovers make a last minute plan to elope, marry and rather disturbingly 'have a child'. Despite this being probably relevant to the way 12 year olds think, it still left me feeling just a bit squeamish.
On asking Monroe how to have a child, it recommends they leap off 333 which sets Satoru and Marin on a trek up a 333 metre tower - managing to generate a spark of consciousness in Monroe just as they jump (to the relative safety of a waiting helicopter). Monroe soon decides to work to its own agenda and abandons the factory it is based in, deriving consciousness from a variety of bizarre inputs from cannibalistic rats, to corpses of gangsters executed in an open air dump.
I'm amazed at how relevant this book has become all over again.
Originally written in the 1980s when the automation of supply chains and production lines brought with them deep social anxieties and the defenestration of an entire class of workers from the social mobility they'd come to take for granted, it seems shockingly relevant at a time when GenAI seems set to do the same thing to a far wider swathe of society, sparing only the very young and adaptable.
MNIS like TDC is bursting with ideas and imagination and truly exceptional art, particularly as Monroe languishes in the biomechanical wasteland of the garbage dump. I can't wait for the remaining installments of the series.
May 22, 2025
shit went down!!!
this series has been all over the board in terms of keeping my interest. first vol. compelled me enough to keep reading, but the second vol. was weird & not in a cool way. this one tho…..incredible!!! truly eerie. i had no idea where it was going as i flipped through each page.
beautiful art & illustrations as always from umezz. it’s what keeps me reading even when things get rough out there.
this series has been all over the board in terms of keeping my interest. first vol. compelled me enough to keep reading, but the second vol. was weird & not in a cool way. this one tho…..incredible!!! truly eerie. i had no idea where it was going as i flipped through each page.
beautiful art & illustrations as always from umezz. it’s what keeps me reading even when things get rough out there.
September 20, 2025
This kids survive. And Marin goes to England while Satoru moves away as well. But Monroe… comes to life.
So one story becomes three.
But this should’ve come with a WARNING LABEL. First you brutally kill the dog, then there’s attempted sexual assault of a minor, then you see a man get beaten to death, and I don’t think I want to know what’s under that sheet.
This series has 6 volumes.
So one story becomes three.
But this should’ve come with a WARNING LABEL. First you brutally kill the dog, then there’s attempted sexual assault of a minor, then you see a man get beaten to death, and I don’t think I want to know what’s under that sheet.
This series has 6 volumes.
September 18, 2025
4.0
The fact they want to forget, after everything they have been through is so sad.
And Shingo speaking for the first time is so odd and weird, and the whole journey is goes in is so good.
Love this series.
The fact they want to forget, after everything they have been through is so sad.
And Shingo speaking for the first time is so odd and weird, and the whole journey is goes in is so good.
Love this series.
November 13, 2024
Every time this story moves away from Monroe/Shingo it becomes incomprehensible character-wise. Thankfully we’re gearing up for more Shingo.
January 11, 2025
What? The? F—k?
February 1, 2025
Things are starting to take a turn, excited to see what happens next
June 29, 2025
finally we get some action!!
October 13, 2025
"My name is Shingo."
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