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Heart Gear #6
HEART GEAR 6
ヘブンランドからの「回収部隊」に保護されたルゥたち。友好的な彼らに対し、ルゥは好意的に接する一方で、クロムは一人、警戒を緩めずにいた。一行は目的地への最短ルート、巨大湖へと進路を取るが、穏やかに見えた水面に突如、不気味な巨影が出現!! クロムは強力な一撃を放つ破壊兵器を託されて──！
- GenresMangaScience Fiction
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 4, 2024
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September 23, 2025
Things go clang and then boom and then clang again (and probably boom a few more times). Chrome manages to power up yet again, but with an explanation that is exactly in-universe enough to make narrative sense, so points for that.
It is Heart Gear in all its glory, right down to the allegorical nonsense that seems to indicate Heavenland as a stand-in for the United States and featuring a bunch of robots blindly following orders on either side who will stop fighting the second their programming is interrupted. It’s about as subtle as being hit with a sock full of quarters.
Still, better to try and be about something, one supposes. And the way the mangaka uses the setting to keep the plot going can be pretty clever at times. I don’t think this is genius stuff, but it’s got some fun action and character design that’s something else.
I was especially impressed at the way Roue decides that she needs to do something towards the end of the volume and, rather than some silly giant power-up sequence, she applies her brains to the situation and develops a way forward from that.
The rest is a lot of smashing, as noted. There’s a fun chase sequence across a lake, three separate fights occurring all at once, all the bells and whistles a genre staple needs. It’s really just a good old time that aims higher than it can achieve, but is no worse for it.
And shout-out to the insane design of Heavenland itself, which is an architectural nightmare that looks primed to completely implode in a literal sense, if the story ever reaches that point. Lack of eye boredom definitely makes this more than your average shonen for me.
The elephant and donkey factions are full of unique designs, and portrayed pretty much as you’d think given today’s state of the world, so if your political skin is conservatively thin you might want to reconsider your reading.
Heart Gear executes its basic plot well and goes hard on the action in a way that I find more engaging than is typical for the genre. I don’t read a ton of these, but this one I’m glad I picked up.
4 stars - good action good. Story might not be all there, but it isn’t a slouch and the bare bones of the quest and the characters on it is more than good enough for me.
It is Heart Gear in all its glory, right down to the allegorical nonsense that seems to indicate Heavenland as a stand-in for the United States and featuring a bunch of robots blindly following orders on either side who will stop fighting the second their programming is interrupted. It’s about as subtle as being hit with a sock full of quarters.
Still, better to try and be about something, one supposes. And the way the mangaka uses the setting to keep the plot going can be pretty clever at times. I don’t think this is genius stuff, but it’s got some fun action and character design that’s something else.
I was especially impressed at the way Roue decides that she needs to do something towards the end of the volume and, rather than some silly giant power-up sequence, she applies her brains to the situation and develops a way forward from that.
The rest is a lot of smashing, as noted. There’s a fun chase sequence across a lake, three separate fights occurring all at once, all the bells and whistles a genre staple needs. It’s really just a good old time that aims higher than it can achieve, but is no worse for it.
And shout-out to the insane design of Heavenland itself, which is an architectural nightmare that looks primed to completely implode in a literal sense, if the story ever reaches that point. Lack of eye boredom definitely makes this more than your average shonen for me.
The elephant and donkey factions are full of unique designs, and portrayed pretty much as you’d think given today’s state of the world, so if your political skin is conservatively thin you might want to reconsider your reading.
Heart Gear executes its basic plot well and goes hard on the action in a way that I find more engaging than is typical for the genre. I don’t read a ton of these, but this one I’m glad I picked up.
4 stars - good action good. Story might not be all there, but it isn’t a slouch and the bare bones of the quest and the characters on it is more than good enough for me.
December 19, 2025
The discrepancy between male and female armor in this is truly incredible
November 29, 2025
Between 2.5 and 3 stars
More fighting, and more of the weird race/capture the flag with Roue as the goal. The art is beautiful, and there's still a little bit of the interesting philosophical interjections by the characters, but it's not enough for me to be as engaged as previous volumes.
More fighting, and more of the weird race/capture the flag with Roue as the goal. The art is beautiful, and there's still a little bit of the interesting philosophical interjections by the characters, but it's not enough for me to be as engaged as previous volumes.
February 2, 2025
Reading the official English translation through an app called “MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA”.
This volume has a few returning faces from the extermination Unit along with one new face, as Roue’s journey onward to Heaven Land becomes pretty hectic. I really liked seeing Roue, Rock-kun, and Chrome’s dynamics with the each of the gears in the Retrieval Unit, and kinda wanted an chapter or 2 of just everyone talking and/or interacting. However I understand why that wasn’t the case.
I feel like Chrome made peace with his more violent side/more base-programming pretty easily, but again, given the circumstances I can be fine with it. I just wish Chrome’s internal struggle and the fact that he’s an elusive 5th generation Gear would’ve had the chance to be explored more, since I feel like hints were dropped for that topic to become a bigger part of the story.
Overall, I’m very curious going into the next volume and seeing how this series wraps up.
This volume has a few returning faces from the extermination Unit along with one new face, as Roue’s journey onward to Heaven Land becomes pretty hectic. I really liked seeing Roue, Rock-kun, and Chrome’s dynamics with the each of the gears in the Retrieval Unit, and kinda wanted an chapter or 2 of just everyone talking and/or interacting. However I understand why that wasn’t the case.
I feel like Chrome made peace with his more violent side/more base-programming pretty easily, but again, given the circumstances I can be fine with it. I just wish Chrome’s internal struggle and the fact that he’s an elusive 5th generation Gear would’ve had the chance to be explored more, since I feel like hints were dropped for that topic to become a bigger part of the story.
Overall, I’m very curious going into the next volume and seeing how this series wraps up.
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