Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 2

by Gamon Sakurai

Genres: Manga, Seinen

588 pages, Paperback

Published January 14, 2025

About the author

Also known as 桜井画門.

Gamon Sakurai is a Japanese comic book artist from Tokyo. Born in 1986, Sakurai was selected for the Afternoon Magazine Four Seasons Award for New Comic Artists. Upon being selected for the award his short story was published and he was selected for editorial review by manga publishing giant Kodansha. Sakurai would make his publishing debut with indie publisher Issuisha in 2010, releasing a short story anthology. He would then work with Kodansha to work on his first feature length series AJIN: Demi-human in 2012.

Reviews

[James Perkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

The part of the manga where the story and pacing start to really get good (probably since the writers change and im more of a fan of the 2nd than the 1st). The art is fantastic with how both the characters are drawn, the action, the Unique and interesting angles, its all so beautiful. The first omnibus focused more on the "othering" aspect of group exploitation, but this one goes all in on the societal rammifications that come with group exploitation in our extremely individualistic world. It shows off incredible ideas of how individuals can assume theyre protecting their self interests by acting unempathetic and selfishly, but are actually putting themselves in more danger by not helping as a resource to a cause to restrict the negative acts that come from group exploitation. This goes for both the people on the exploiting side, as they can fall victim of retributive acts by the exploited (the anti-ajin human society), and for those on the exploited side who think since they specifically are unexploited that they dont have to help in any cause and thus will do nothing and thus lead to a decrease in resources which will lead their side to lose the war of attrition and thus they too will become effected (kei nagai)

[Crowspeake · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series just gets better and better. The themes of terrorism start to seep in during this volume and it hits like a... Well a plane. It's shocking how much the anime managed to censor from the manga. I've begun to solidify my belief that Ajin: Demi-Human is about how more established countries treat places like the middle east. The not-so-subtle 9/11 reference when Satou attacks the corporate building and the way that Ajins are constantly tortured and experimented on through the entire story all make me sure that this is the theme of this series. It also manages to give Izumi Shimomura a backstory which was once again, an amazing usage of her immortality. I'm itching for the next release.

[Kelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

this series is sick, can’t deny it~