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I Am a Hero
I am a Hero 5
Der Mangazeichner-Assistent Hideo führt kein glückliches Leben. Ihm fehlt es an Selbstbewusstsein und Motivation. Als eines Tages die Zombie-Apokalypse ausbricht, werden wahre Helden gesucht. Ob Hideo einer sein kann?!
208 pages, Paperback
First published December 25, 2010
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Kengo Hanazawa
114 books137 followersKengo Hanazawa (花沢健吾 Hanazawa Kengo, born January 5, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist known for his seinen works. He won the Topic Award of the 2005 Sense of Gender Awards for Ressentiment and was nominated for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Manga Taisho for I Am a Hero.
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January 13, 2023
We are down to 3 stars and i don't know what it will take to go back to 4 or 5.
I still like the writer so just not so much as when i first read for him the surprise subsided
I like the many acts of kindness and the respect that we have seen through the volumes from the Japanese people.
What i hate so much is the acts of stupidity the writer seems intent on making everyone do them for the sake of suspense? of creating bad situations? i have no idea.
Cheap horror movies always has this kind of stupidity from the characters but we actually have a very decent writer her i hope he lets go of this particular method in the future it will make his Manga much better.
I still like the girl so much.
I hated the scene at the temple in the mountain people are not acting like their world has fallen apart and that any scream is reason enough for the whole group to panic and many died among them after screaming in pain and not a single soul managed to notice
I liked the internet conversation idea was pretty cool to see how people on the internet would react and i think he got that part right.
And finally i am not really sure how the babies on top of the mountain came to be zombies like that only possible reason would be if there was pregnancy hospital near by and one of the nurses bitten all the children in the incubation room.
I still like the writer so just not so much as when i first read for him the surprise subsided
I like the many acts of kindness and the respect that we have seen through the volumes from the Japanese people.
What i hate so much is the acts of stupidity the writer seems intent on making everyone do them for the sake of suspense? of creating bad situations? i have no idea.
Cheap horror movies always has this kind of stupidity from the characters but we actually have a very decent writer her i hope he lets go of this particular method in the future it will make his Manga much better.
I still like the girl so much.
I hated the scene at the temple in the mountain people are not acting like their world has fallen apart and that any scream is reason enough for the whole group to panic and many died among them after screaming in pain and not a single soul managed to notice
I liked the internet conversation idea was pretty cool to see how people on the internet would react and i think he got that part right.
And finally i am not really sure how the babies on top of the mountain came to be zombies like that only possible reason would be if there was pregnancy hospital near by and one of the nurses bitten all the children in the incubation room.
September 28, 2022
Non smette di essere una bomba e io lo amo! (Il finale?!)
February 9, 2016
Hideo y Hiromi encuentran a un camarografo que también esta apenas intentando salvar, mientras actuan mas humanos, mientras sabemos un poco mas de como va el resto de Japon y se ven unos zomBies mas desatados .La relación por medio de mensajes en redes sociales,es muy actual, uno diria que esa parte es exagerada pero es entrar un rato a twitter y ver que no estan muy lejanos de la verdad, además el tomo en su parte final tiene una viñeta que te deja diciendo: NOOOOOOOOOOO
February 27, 2020
Four and a half. This is a review of volumes 3 to 5.
This is one of those series I just want to read through, and I’m aching to know what happens next. I wouldn’t even stop to write reviews if it wasn’t because I’m at work and I have nothing to do at the moment. Given that I’m reviewing three volumes and I have a terrible memory, I’ll likely end up bridging stuff along the way and mostly describing what impacted me.
A detail I didn’t mention in my review of the first volume, because until the third one it was a part of the protagonist’s delusional mindset, is that during the course of his regular life he had managed to get a very legal gun license and bought and cared for a shotgun. This is not the kind of story thing like the character happens to have a gun and we as readers just buy it: the author weaves in stuff like that the protagonist had to attend periodic tests organized by the local police department so he wouldn’t get his license revoked. How on Earth someone as mentally unbalanced as the protagonist managed to get a gun license in Japan of all places is anyone’s guess. Why he wanted the shotgun shows why he shouldn’t have it: every night he feared that some terrifying delusions (mostly floating heads) would manage to enter his apartment, and I guess the plan was blasting them to oblivion. Those delusions never broke in, of course, but the protagonist ended up running through the zombie apocalypse with a shotgun and a very realistic ability to use it and care for it, which made him one of the most valuable survivors.
We left our schizophrenic main guy riding the train as an infected person is attempting to enter the wagon. A douchy young bro, ignoring how clearly diseased the zombie looks, actually opens the door. We witness a realistic sequence of people used to peace, having been indoctrinated into rejecting violence, having to deal with a sudden burst of uncompromising violence directed at them (if you haven’t seen it in person, a single YouTube video that comes to mind is one of passengers on a bus in France dealing with imported, violent robbers. That one opens your eyes). In any case, the protagonist realizes that it’s time to unsheathe his shotgun out and vanquish the menace, but as he’s holding this woody and metallic deadly extension of a penis, he snaps out of his delusion and realizes he’s holding an air shotgun under the gaze of quite perturbed commuters. He can’t do such a heroic thing, he’s a law abiding, definitely not a hero person. The zombies, growing exponentially, ravage through the wagon. At some point the train stops. The protagonist flees and ends up in a taxi along with three other passengers, in one of the most memorable sequences of this series, that also works as a snapshot of its general vibe. The protagonist, who hasn’t slept after pulling an all-nighter drawing the backgrounds for an erotic manga, and who afterwards had to kill his zombified girlfriend, ends up on the backseat of the taxi along with a quarrelling couple who have been bitten but are in the feverish stage. At this point, the Japanese still haven’t figured out the severity of the world destroying threat they are facing (and neither have we with numerous things), nor have they learned its rules. And to their credit, the author uses the convenience rule for when people turn into his version of zombies: whenever it serves the narrative better. In a memorable moment, the protagonist attempts to have a conversation with the bitten guy. He tells him he’s a manga author, and the other guy asks about how much money he makes. The guy’s mind flips into the zombified madness and gets stuck asking, in an insane way, whether or not the protagonist’s career allows him to make the big bucks. The protagonist still hasn’t snapped out of his half-delusional state (he should have broken the window and jumped out or something), but conveniently for his living state, the now zombified couple’s minds have devolved into mumbling how much they love each other. The taxi driver opens up about his life, about how his granddaughter had been afflicted with this disease doing the rounds, and she had ended up biting him; meanwhile, the zombified couple get busy literally eating each others faces. Even the oblivious taxi driver ends up realizing this, and the protagonist manages to kick the couple out of the car and into the oncoming traffic. At that point the driver is losing against the infection, and crashes head-on against another car. The protagonist escapes from the wreckage mostly intact. The taxi catches on fire, and as the zombie taxi driver melts like a candle, he mumbles about the fare the protagonist owes. The protagonist apologizes and leaves the money on the ground. Fucking great.
He runs through a town he’s never been in, but that happens to be, as it tends to be the case in what seems like most mangas in which someone travels somewhere, near Mount Fuji. He decides to try his luck wandering through Aokigahara forest, that surrounds the base of the mountain. It’s one of the most popular suicide spots in the world. The protagonist, panicking and with his phone having ran out of battery, faces the darkness, along with the inevitable menacing delusions, alone. Another very memorable sequence in which we witness the bizarre monsters that haunt him, and also how he escapes into elaborate daydreaming: he imagines himself winning the lottery or something and opening a French restaurant in Japan, in which he would handle tyrannically the native French chef. We follow for a couple of pages the plights of that chef, overworked and stuck in a foreign land, wondering whether he made a mistake coming there, but in the end he proves his worth and wins awards and the attention of women.
Speaking of women, or women to be: we cut to the perspective of who is meant to become the coprotagonist of this tale. She’s a cute female high schooler (gotta have one of those), an anhedonic loner who we later learn grew up without a father. The image that best defines her is, as we see her in a flashback, herself sitting on her desk at school, leaning against her forearms, having cocooned herself with the curtains against the enveloping idiocy of the social butterflies that hang out with her, and that bully her to an extent because she’s clearly different. I sympathized with her immediately, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s cute. Originally from Tokyo like the protagonist, she was on a school trip to mount Fuji with her classmates, and given that they were somewhat isolated, they managed to miss that humanity was Coronavirusing itself out of existence. A bit hard to believe nowadays, but whatever. One of those nights, the girls this girl hung out with dared/forced her to wander alone through Aokigahara forest and take a photo of some hanging corpse. This girl, curiously unafraid, walks in the dark through the trees and realizes that she’s happier there, in that calm, than around human beings. She ends up hearing our protagonist, who is curled up on the floor and monologuing to himself, telling his deceased girlfriend that he’s sorry, and that he wishes for someone, anyone, to help him out of this nightmare. Unbeknownst to him, the girl extends an arm to touch this stranger’s hand, and covers him with her school jacket. The next morning the protagonist freaks out because he woke up covered in a stranger's jacket. He realizes that if a zombie had approached him, he’d been boned. After he wanders for a bit he stops to pee, and from the other side of the tree, the girl asks for some paper to wipe her butt. Thus begins an endearing relationship in which she believes him to be some adult, and he tries to hide his horniness and his being a failure. After he explains that the zombie apocalypse has happened, she proposes to visit the nearest hospital: he clearly hit his head. He doesn’t have to try very hard to convince her, because she ends up meeting her first suicide: some infected guy who had hanged himself knowing he’d end up killing someone. Instead of freaking out, the girl notices that some humanity remains in the rabid person, that his hands are attempting to grab something instead of hoping to claw someone’s face off. She hands him a photo of his family from his bag. The zombie clasps the photo to his chest, and in a swift movement he decapitates himself.
Shortly after two other zombies catch up to them: two of her “friends”. The girl, although she realizes those two are far gone, treats them as if they needed medical help. I don’t recall what happens to one of the friends, but as the other sits around, the high schooler shoves her friend’s head on a handbag so she won’t be able to bite, and starts dragging her towards the hospital. The protagonist attempts to convince this coprotagonist that everybody at the hospital must have turned into zombies already. The girl, losing it, shares an epiphany: that throughout her life she had always attempted to see the best in people no matter how nasty they were, but that these people hadn’t been her friends, not really, but bullies that treated her as the freak of the group. Therefore, that girl deserves to die. She asks the protagonist for the shotgun so she can send her “friend” to pasture. The author delights us with a very involved explanation of how to handle the firearm; he probably earned his own license and owns a shotgun himself, or at least that sequence gives the impression. In the process of deciding whether or not they would dare execute an infected person (because they are still wondering about the morality of the act), they end up triggering a shot half by mistake. The zombie’s head bursts.
The noise attracts random zombies, so the protagonists flee. When they get out of the forest they flag down an expensive car, and its driver ends up being a punk who threatens our protagonists with a gun. The protagonist suspects it’s an airgun. They offer the girl, just the girl, to go with them, not without first demanding her to take off the pants she had been wearing under her skirt and bare those sweet high schooler legs. The protagonist, being a bit of a simp, tells her that it’s her decision to jump in that expensive car right next to the shady, clearly rapey punk, but he realizes that the guy is infected. He threatens to shoot the dude, who speeds off while laughing.
Our protagonists walk, run, and bike around while taking in the terrible sights. They have no idea what to do next. They still pay for some beverages, and they enjoy some earned break. The protagonist can’t help casting glances at this high schooler’s slender bare neck, and her appetizing lips as she drinks. After all, the protagonist, this failure of a 35 year old, had saved her, and now he can enjoy being a manly, resourceful figure that can take care of and protect, thanks to his slug-shooting, gunpowder-powered penis, a vulnerable young woman in the prime of her fertility. Living the dream, baby.
A couple of old people cross paths with them. Turns out in that town, people haven’t realized they are screwed, and are trusting some unreliable rumors that the infection doesn’t propagate in higher altitudes, and/or the infected don’t go up, or whatever. Following them would involve getting surrounded by dozens of clueless people, and although the protagonist should know better by that point, they really have nowhere to go, so they follow the crowd. That goes as well as expected. Before the mayhem erupts, the author develops a subplot involving a new pseudo-cult that believes the previously forgotten or rejected by society would end up inheriting the new world after the zombie thing passes; in the first stages of the pandemic, a guy who had been a hikikomori since he was a child recorded himself beating to extra-death his zombified parents. He uploaded his exploits to YouTube, and his half-deranged proclamations have earned him loads of followers in real life, the culty kind. Regarding the protagonists’ situation, a few zombie babies end up biting a bunch of people, who turn in turn, and soon the entire crowd loses it in many ways. As our protagonists flee, they meet the first reliable supporting character, who lets them in his car. He’s a photographer in his fifties. He had wanted to become a war photographer, but had ended up helping make mail order catalogues. He separated from his family in the early stages of this mayhem, and now, out in the great wild, could use a guy with a shotgun, and I guess a cute high schooler. The photographer is useful, because he can scout with his expensive cameras and their sophisticated zooms.
As the photographer drives, we have to worry about a wound that one of the infected babies left on the girl’s neck. It doesn’t seem to be a bite, nor has it broken the skin; the protagonist himself was bitten by his girlfriend’s gums and ended up fine, so this high schooler should be as well. They decide to follow unknown routes to higher grounds, under the assumption that the zombies will remain or move to the cities. They stop in a deserted, mostly isolated restaurant by the side of the road, and they steal their dinner. The high schooler gets a bit inebriated, she bickers in a friendly manner with the protagonist, their shoulders touch. They all have a good time.
She decides that she will sleep in the car. I don’t remember why, the guys don’t. (Big spoilers) .
I already read through most of the next volume by the time I used my idle time at work to write these pointless words. This is a great series. The mangakas clearly traveled to the exact locations where their characters stand, the zombies are more eerie and disturbing than usual, and even more compelling thanks to them remaining attached to their subconscious drives, and the plot manipulates your heartstrings effectively. It’s a series that can push you out before the end of the first volume, thanks to the protagonist’s perspective, but it’s worth sticking to.
This is one of those series I just want to read through, and I’m aching to know what happens next. I wouldn’t even stop to write reviews if it wasn’t because I’m at work and I have nothing to do at the moment. Given that I’m reviewing three volumes and I have a terrible memory, I’ll likely end up bridging stuff along the way and mostly describing what impacted me.
A detail I didn’t mention in my review of the first volume, because until the third one it was a part of the protagonist’s delusional mindset, is that during the course of his regular life he had managed to get a very legal gun license and bought and cared for a shotgun. This is not the kind of story thing like the character happens to have a gun and we as readers just buy it: the author weaves in stuff like that the protagonist had to attend periodic tests organized by the local police department so he wouldn’t get his license revoked. How on Earth someone as mentally unbalanced as the protagonist managed to get a gun license in Japan of all places is anyone’s guess. Why he wanted the shotgun shows why he shouldn’t have it: every night he feared that some terrifying delusions (mostly floating heads) would manage to enter his apartment, and I guess the plan was blasting them to oblivion. Those delusions never broke in, of course, but the protagonist ended up running through the zombie apocalypse with a shotgun and a very realistic ability to use it and care for it, which made him one of the most valuable survivors.
We left our schizophrenic main guy riding the train as an infected person is attempting to enter the wagon. A douchy young bro, ignoring how clearly diseased the zombie looks, actually opens the door. We witness a realistic sequence of people used to peace, having been indoctrinated into rejecting violence, having to deal with a sudden burst of uncompromising violence directed at them (if you haven’t seen it in person, a single YouTube video that comes to mind is one of passengers on a bus in France dealing with imported, violent robbers. That one opens your eyes). In any case, the protagonist realizes that it’s time to unsheathe his shotgun out and vanquish the menace, but as he’s holding this woody and metallic deadly extension of a penis, he snaps out of his delusion and realizes he’s holding an air shotgun under the gaze of quite perturbed commuters. He can’t do such a heroic thing, he’s a law abiding, definitely not a hero person. The zombies, growing exponentially, ravage through the wagon. At some point the train stops. The protagonist flees and ends up in a taxi along with three other passengers, in one of the most memorable sequences of this series, that also works as a snapshot of its general vibe. The protagonist, who hasn’t slept after pulling an all-nighter drawing the backgrounds for an erotic manga, and who afterwards had to kill his zombified girlfriend, ends up on the backseat of the taxi along with a quarrelling couple who have been bitten but are in the feverish stage. At this point, the Japanese still haven’t figured out the severity of the world destroying threat they are facing (and neither have we with numerous things), nor have they learned its rules. And to their credit, the author uses the convenience rule for when people turn into his version of zombies: whenever it serves the narrative better. In a memorable moment, the protagonist attempts to have a conversation with the bitten guy. He tells him he’s a manga author, and the other guy asks about how much money he makes. The guy’s mind flips into the zombified madness and gets stuck asking, in an insane way, whether or not the protagonist’s career allows him to make the big bucks. The protagonist still hasn’t snapped out of his half-delusional state (he should have broken the window and jumped out or something), but conveniently for his living state, the now zombified couple’s minds have devolved into mumbling how much they love each other. The taxi driver opens up about his life, about how his granddaughter had been afflicted with this disease doing the rounds, and she had ended up biting him; meanwhile, the zombified couple get busy literally eating each others faces. Even the oblivious taxi driver ends up realizing this, and the protagonist manages to kick the couple out of the car and into the oncoming traffic. At that point the driver is losing against the infection, and crashes head-on against another car. The protagonist escapes from the wreckage mostly intact. The taxi catches on fire, and as the zombie taxi driver melts like a candle, he mumbles about the fare the protagonist owes. The protagonist apologizes and leaves the money on the ground. Fucking great.
He runs through a town he’s never been in, but that happens to be, as it tends to be the case in what seems like most mangas in which someone travels somewhere, near Mount Fuji. He decides to try his luck wandering through Aokigahara forest, that surrounds the base of the mountain. It’s one of the most popular suicide spots in the world. The protagonist, panicking and with his phone having ran out of battery, faces the darkness, along with the inevitable menacing delusions, alone. Another very memorable sequence in which we witness the bizarre monsters that haunt him, and also how he escapes into elaborate daydreaming: he imagines himself winning the lottery or something and opening a French restaurant in Japan, in which he would handle tyrannically the native French chef. We follow for a couple of pages the plights of that chef, overworked and stuck in a foreign land, wondering whether he made a mistake coming there, but in the end he proves his worth and wins awards and the attention of women.
Speaking of women, or women to be: we cut to the perspective of who is meant to become the coprotagonist of this tale. She’s a cute female high schooler (gotta have one of those), an anhedonic loner who we later learn grew up without a father. The image that best defines her is, as we see her in a flashback, herself sitting on her desk at school, leaning against her forearms, having cocooned herself with the curtains against the enveloping idiocy of the social butterflies that hang out with her, and that bully her to an extent because she’s clearly different. I sympathized with her immediately, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s cute. Originally from Tokyo like the protagonist, she was on a school trip to mount Fuji with her classmates, and given that they were somewhat isolated, they managed to miss that humanity was Coronavirusing itself out of existence. A bit hard to believe nowadays, but whatever. One of those nights, the girls this girl hung out with dared/forced her to wander alone through Aokigahara forest and take a photo of some hanging corpse. This girl, curiously unafraid, walks in the dark through the trees and realizes that she’s happier there, in that calm, than around human beings. She ends up hearing our protagonist, who is curled up on the floor and monologuing to himself, telling his deceased girlfriend that he’s sorry, and that he wishes for someone, anyone, to help him out of this nightmare. Unbeknownst to him, the girl extends an arm to touch this stranger’s hand, and covers him with her school jacket. The next morning the protagonist freaks out because he woke up covered in a stranger's jacket. He realizes that if a zombie had approached him, he’d been boned. After he wanders for a bit he stops to pee, and from the other side of the tree, the girl asks for some paper to wipe her butt. Thus begins an endearing relationship in which she believes him to be some adult, and he tries to hide his horniness and his being a failure. After he explains that the zombie apocalypse has happened, she proposes to visit the nearest hospital: he clearly hit his head. He doesn’t have to try very hard to convince her, because she ends up meeting her first suicide: some infected guy who had hanged himself knowing he’d end up killing someone. Instead of freaking out, the girl notices that some humanity remains in the rabid person, that his hands are attempting to grab something instead of hoping to claw someone’s face off. She hands him a photo of his family from his bag. The zombie clasps the photo to his chest, and in a swift movement he decapitates himself.
Shortly after two other zombies catch up to them: two of her “friends”. The girl, although she realizes those two are far gone, treats them as if they needed medical help. I don’t recall what happens to one of the friends, but as the other sits around, the high schooler shoves her friend’s head on a handbag so she won’t be able to bite, and starts dragging her towards the hospital. The protagonist attempts to convince this coprotagonist that everybody at the hospital must have turned into zombies already. The girl, losing it, shares an epiphany: that throughout her life she had always attempted to see the best in people no matter how nasty they were, but that these people hadn’t been her friends, not really, but bullies that treated her as the freak of the group. Therefore, that girl deserves to die. She asks the protagonist for the shotgun so she can send her “friend” to pasture. The author delights us with a very involved explanation of how to handle the firearm; he probably earned his own license and owns a shotgun himself, or at least that sequence gives the impression. In the process of deciding whether or not they would dare execute an infected person (because they are still wondering about the morality of the act), they end up triggering a shot half by mistake. The zombie’s head bursts.
The noise attracts random zombies, so the protagonists flee. When they get out of the forest they flag down an expensive car, and its driver ends up being a punk who threatens our protagonists with a gun. The protagonist suspects it’s an airgun. They offer the girl, just the girl, to go with them, not without first demanding her to take off the pants she had been wearing under her skirt and bare those sweet high schooler legs. The protagonist, being a bit of a simp, tells her that it’s her decision to jump in that expensive car right next to the shady, clearly rapey punk, but he realizes that the guy is infected. He threatens to shoot the dude, who speeds off while laughing.
Our protagonists walk, run, and bike around while taking in the terrible sights. They have no idea what to do next. They still pay for some beverages, and they enjoy some earned break. The protagonist can’t help casting glances at this high schooler’s slender bare neck, and her appetizing lips as she drinks. After all, the protagonist, this failure of a 35 year old, had saved her, and now he can enjoy being a manly, resourceful figure that can take care of and protect, thanks to his slug-shooting, gunpowder-powered penis, a vulnerable young woman in the prime of her fertility. Living the dream, baby.
A couple of old people cross paths with them. Turns out in that town, people haven’t realized they are screwed, and are trusting some unreliable rumors that the infection doesn’t propagate in higher altitudes, and/or the infected don’t go up, or whatever. Following them would involve getting surrounded by dozens of clueless people, and although the protagonist should know better by that point, they really have nowhere to go, so they follow the crowd. That goes as well as expected. Before the mayhem erupts, the author develops a subplot involving a new pseudo-cult that believes the previously forgotten or rejected by society would end up inheriting the new world after the zombie thing passes; in the first stages of the pandemic, a guy who had been a hikikomori since he was a child recorded himself beating to extra-death his zombified parents. He uploaded his exploits to YouTube, and his half-deranged proclamations have earned him loads of followers in real life, the culty kind. Regarding the protagonists’ situation, a few zombie babies end up biting a bunch of people, who turn in turn, and soon the entire crowd loses it in many ways. As our protagonists flee, they meet the first reliable supporting character, who lets them in his car. He’s a photographer in his fifties. He had wanted to become a war photographer, but had ended up helping make mail order catalogues. He separated from his family in the early stages of this mayhem, and now, out in the great wild, could use a guy with a shotgun, and I guess a cute high schooler. The photographer is useful, because he can scout with his expensive cameras and their sophisticated zooms.
As the photographer drives, we have to worry about a wound that one of the infected babies left on the girl’s neck. It doesn’t seem to be a bite, nor has it broken the skin; the protagonist himself was bitten by his girlfriend’s gums and ended up fine, so this high schooler should be as well. They decide to follow unknown routes to higher grounds, under the assumption that the zombies will remain or move to the cities. They stop in a deserted, mostly isolated restaurant by the side of the road, and they steal their dinner. The high schooler gets a bit inebriated, she bickers in a friendly manner with the protagonist, their shoulders touch. They all have a good time.
She decides that she will sleep in the car. I don’t remember why, the guys don’t. (Big spoilers) .
I already read through most of the next volume by the time I used my idle time at work to write these pointless words. This is a great series. The mangakas clearly traveled to the exact locations where their characters stand, the zombies are more eerie and disturbing than usual, and even more compelling thanks to them remaining attached to their subconscious drives, and the plot manipulates your heartstrings effectively. It’s a series that can push you out before the end of the first volume, thanks to the protagonist’s perspective, but it’s worth sticking to.
May 22, 2017
Este tomo es < /3
Ante un apocalipsis zombie, ¿irías donde las grandes masas van o te irías por tu cuenta evitando las poblaciones?
Ante un apocalipsis zombie, ¿irías donde las grandes masas van o te irías por tu cuenta evitando las poblaciones?
September 14, 2014
Esta saga es una obra maestra y quiero que nunca dejen de publicar.
Nunca pensé que dijera eso con una obra, pero en este caso no me queda remedio, y os resumo porque, tal como buen esquema para estudiar la asignatura de fisiología:
1º Hasta ahora únicamente se ha centrado en aventura y zombis.
2º Por fin han dejado al lado la intervención militar que tanto cansa en todas las novelas, películas y obras en general de zombis, pues el tema recurrente cuando ya no saben que más desarrollar: meto a militares muy malos y ala…
3º Hay más aventura que Indiana Jones, es un corre, corre que te pilla por diferente lados: campos, montañas, ciudades, pueblos, casas…
4ºUn dibujo perfecto con unas estampas que me gustaría tenerlas en grande para adornar mi salón (en serio) Los paisajes son perfectos, espectaculares. Y el ser en blanco y negro lo mejor.
5. La mezcla de zombis con fantasmas clásicos orientales da mucho morbo y miedo.
6º No se corta un pelo: sangre, bebes zombis, sexo…
7º Nos adentra en los sentimientos de un mangaca solitario, siendo el personaje protagonista alguien muy pintoresco que cae bien.
8º No te encariñes con nadie que te lo mata.
9º Un autentico viajes para sobrevivir.
10º Humor negro y situaciones excéntricas que te sacan una sonrisa cuando menos te lo esperas.
Nunca pensé que dijera eso con una obra, pero en este caso no me queda remedio, y os resumo porque, tal como buen esquema para estudiar la asignatura de fisiología:
1º Hasta ahora únicamente se ha centrado en aventura y zombis.
2º Por fin han dejado al lado la intervención militar que tanto cansa en todas las novelas, películas y obras en general de zombis, pues el tema recurrente cuando ya no saben que más desarrollar: meto a militares muy malos y ala…
3º Hay más aventura que Indiana Jones, es un corre, corre que te pilla por diferente lados: campos, montañas, ciudades, pueblos, casas…
4ºUn dibujo perfecto con unas estampas que me gustaría tenerlas en grande para adornar mi salón (en serio) Los paisajes son perfectos, espectaculares. Y el ser en blanco y negro lo mejor.
5. La mezcla de zombis con fantasmas clásicos orientales da mucho morbo y miedo.
6º No se corta un pelo: sangre, bebes zombis, sexo…
7º Nos adentra en los sentimientos de un mangaca solitario, siendo el personaje protagonista alguien muy pintoresco que cae bien.
8º No te encariñes con nadie que te lo mata.
9º Un autentico viajes para sobrevivir.
10º Humor negro y situaciones excéntricas que te sacan una sonrisa cuando menos te lo esperas.
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January 2, 2016Auch este me rompió un poco el corazón
May 28, 2017
Hideo and Hiromi continue their escape! As they are found by an elderly couple who hint at at a rumour they heard that the undead virus can't be caught in cold temperatures, they head off into the direction of the Fifth station of Mount Fuji. It seems like nothing is happening as you read through pages of them walking through the crowd, but it is fascinating to see how detailed people are and how they're all going about their own worries and thoughts through their conversations with each other.
Sure enough, you start to see the not-so-subtle hints through the crowds "My baby isn't fuzzy, how odd," and you realize where things are going. That and the toddlers climbing the trees. Panic ensues and Hideo and Hiromi narrowly escape with the aid of a middle-aged camera man who dreams of photographing the disaster and winning the Pulitzer.
They reach the Fifth Station, which is deserted and find desolation beneath them from their vantage point. Not only that, but most of Tokyo below them is on fire. There's something majestic about witnessing destruction in the pages, from the heavily detailed splash pages of nothing but paths in the countryside, to the dramatic shot of them standing and witnessing the smoke and fire below them.
They all have dinner inside a conbi store and Hiromi actually gets drunk, much to Hideo's chagrin.
Then we're treated to a horrible realization as Hideo leaves for a bathroom break.
Meanwhile, we see how things are going down over at Osaka, Tokyo and Dotonbori and hint: Things aren't good. You see a message board conversation between teen survivors who are posting away making fun and light of the situation and quarreling over who will rule the 'new world'.
The spread pages, again, I know I've already mentioned it, but they were drawn in such detail, it makes me long for a visit to Japan. Is this weird? Not a zombified Japan, mind, but look at those skyscrapers and the sprawling cities!
The internet banter/chat rages on as destruction and despair piles high. Soon, we're treated to the camera man and Hideo trying to get past three infected and the shocking outcome of what happened to Hiromi.
Sure enough, you start to see the not-so-subtle hints through the crowds "My baby isn't fuzzy, how odd," and you realize where things are going. That and the toddlers climbing the trees. Panic ensues and Hideo and Hiromi narrowly escape with the aid of a middle-aged camera man who dreams of photographing the disaster and winning the Pulitzer.
They reach the Fifth Station, which is deserted and find desolation beneath them from their vantage point. Not only that, but most of Tokyo below them is on fire. There's something majestic about witnessing destruction in the pages, from the heavily detailed splash pages of nothing but paths in the countryside, to the dramatic shot of them standing and witnessing the smoke and fire below them.
They all have dinner inside a conbi store and Hiromi actually gets drunk, much to Hideo's chagrin.
Then we're treated to a horrible realization as Hideo leaves for a bathroom break.
Meanwhile, we see how things are going down over at Osaka, Tokyo and Dotonbori and hint: Things aren't good. You see a message board conversation between teen survivors who are posting away making fun and light of the situation and quarreling over who will rule the 'new world'.
The spread pages, again, I know I've already mentioned it, but they were drawn in such detail, it makes me long for a visit to Japan. Is this weird? Not a zombified Japan, mind, but look at those skyscrapers and the sprawling cities!
The internet banter/chat rages on as destruction and despair piles high. Soon, we're treated to the camera man and Hideo trying to get past three infected and the shocking outcome of what happened to Hiromi.
February 14, 2023
La prima parte del quinto volume di "I am a hero" è un grande volume per la serie che porta la tensione e l'azione a livelli completamente nuovi. La coppia di eroi sta cercando di salire su un terreno più elevato, seguendo rapporti contrastanti su ciò che sta accadendo in Giappone. Dopo essere arrivati in un tempio, il manga offre un'esperienza coinvolgente con azione, sangue, paura e tensione, mantenendo questo livello alto per un po'. Tuttavia, il volume termina con una nota negativa, poiché quasi due interi capitoli sono composti da disegni e piccoli frammenti di thread di bacheca sui messaggi che le persone stanno postando riguardo alla fine del mondo. Il punto forte del volume è sicuramente la prima parte, situata al tempio, mentre il punto debole sono i due capitoli precedenti l'ultimo, con tutti i lunghi thread di bordo. La narrazione diventa pigra in questi due capitoli, e non è all'altezza del resto del volume.
September 1, 2017
Hiromi Hayamari e Hideo Suzuki continuano la loro fuga in un giappone sempre più nel caos. Le forze dell'ordine si limitano a proibire alla gente di uscire di casa, ma la notizia è fuori da ogni logica e la gente di casa esce, perché si crede al sicuro, sufficientemente lontana, oppure per rifugiarsi in posti dove i mostri non potranno raggiungerli. Tutto falso: nessuno è al sicuro e nessun posto è sicuro. Questo quinto numero di IaaH aggiunge all'affresco dell'apocalisse zombie un buon numero di efficacissime scene di folla, in cui la natura fuori dagli schemi dell'invasione si mostra in tutta la sua potenza disturbante. A fine numero, a meno di stravolgimenti, capiamo che anche Hiromi, che tutto sembrava fuorchè un personaggio passeggero, è destinata a salutarci. E questo è un altro punto a favore per un fumetto gestito benissimo.
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December 7, 2019
A great volume for the series, the first part of the fifth volume of "I am a hero" ramps up the tension and the action to whole new levels. Our couple of heroes are trying to get to higher ground, following mixing reports about what is going on in Japan. What follows, after they arrive to a temple, is just great manga, with action, blood, fear, and tension. It keeps this high level for a while, but the volume ends on a down note, almost two whole chapters made up of drawings and little snippets of board threads about messages people are posting in regards to the end of the world. No, Hanazawa, no, that's lazy.
The best: the first part, at the temple
The worst: the two chapters before the last, with all the long board threads.
8/10
(Castilian translation by Marc Bernabé)
The best: the first part, at the temple
The worst: the two chapters before the last, with all the long board threads.
8/10
(Castilian translation by Marc Bernabé)
November 16, 2017
Gran volumen de Hanazawa, que poco a poco nos destila detalles de lo que pasa, aunque de forma caótica, fragmentada y gota a gota.
Sin embargo, la certeza es la siguiente: es el Apocalipsis. Por ello, tanto Hideo y Hiromi ya piensan es en sobrevivir.
El volumen 5, que contiene los mangas del 47 al 57, sigue con un claro detalle en el arte, y con una narrativa de suspenso. En verdad pareciera que en cualquier momento habrá peligro y efectivamente así sucede. Más aún, cuando hay gente.
Por otro lado, el giro final trágico, nos demuestra que cualquier cosa puede pasar, y es que, cuando se está en el fin del mundo, parece que solo puede tomarse una cerveza.
Sin embargo, la certeza es la siguiente: es el Apocalipsis. Por ello, tanto Hideo y Hiromi ya piensan es en sobrevivir.
El volumen 5, que contiene los mangas del 47 al 57, sigue con un claro detalle en el arte, y con una narrativa de suspenso. En verdad pareciera que en cualquier momento habrá peligro y efectivamente así sucede. Más aún, cuando hay gente.
Por otro lado, el giro final trágico, nos demuestra que cualquier cosa puede pasar, y es que, cuando se está en el fin del mundo, parece que solo puede tomarse una cerveza.
October 18, 2019
Hideo y Hiromi continúan escapando de los zombis e intentando encontrar un lugar seguro, y mientras intentan subir a la quinta estación del Fuji (en donde dicen que los infectados no llegan y no te podés contagiar) se arma un quilombo en la base en donde son salvados por un fotógrafo.
A partir de ahi la historia medio que toma una pause y se los ve un poco relajados, pero obviamente en este manga no hay paz por mucho tiempo. El final del tomo es muy bueno, y hasta me hizo lagrimear un poco, buen manga.
PD: Puntos extra por los bebés terroríficos en la base del Fuji.
A partir de ahi la historia medio que toma una pause y se los ve un poco relajados, pero obviamente en este manga no hay paz por mucho tiempo. El final del tomo es muy bueno, y hasta me hizo lagrimear un poco, buen manga.
PD: Puntos extra por los bebés terroríficos en la base del Fuji.
June 23, 2018
Una inocente, ingenua y pequeña parte de mí en verdad pensaba que esos 3 harían un buen equipo y seguirían así por un rato...
Incluso con todo lo que pasó en el monte, estar con el camarógrafo y el intento de continuar como "personas civilizadas", creo que lo que más me gustó fue la manera en la cual se va entrelazando la historia entre los comentarios de internet y la realidad alrededor de Japón.
Incluso con todo lo que pasó en el monte, estar con el camarógrafo y el intento de continuar como "personas civilizadas", creo que lo que más me gustó fue la manera en la cual se va entrelazando la historia entre los comentarios de internet y la realidad alrededor de Japón.
November 11, 2020
YA SOLO TE QUEDA SOBREVIVIR, DEBES MATAR, Y CORRER, PARA CONTINUAR CON VIDA.
Santo señor de los zombies, que gran historia. en estos capitulos, ya vemos como los medios de comunicación manipulan información, como el miedo se apodera de la sociedad, y esto provoca una masacre sin igual. Tu corazón se rompe en mil pedazos por un acontecimiento infeccioso. Ya no hay donde escapar, sólo te queda sobrevivir.
Santo señor de los zombies, que gran historia. en estos capitulos, ya vemos como los medios de comunicación manipulan información, como el miedo se apodera de la sociedad, y esto provoca una masacre sin igual. Tu corazón se rompe en mil pedazos por un acontecimiento infeccioso. Ya no hay donde escapar, sólo te queda sobrevivir.
August 24, 2023
Boy, the authors sure are milking this story for all it's worth. The events in this volume could have been told in 50 pages max.
July 16, 2018
Wow... Einige Panelfolgen sind wirklich der Wahnsinn! Und wieder einmal schafft es Kengo Hanazawa mit geschickten Szenenfolgen mehr Terror zu erzeugen als die allermeisten Zombiefilme oder -Serien es vermögen. In Band 5 gibt es dazu weniger Comic Relief und ein hammerhartes Ende. Großartig! Band 6 & 7 liegen schon bereit.
February 25, 2023
A Hirome esta se demonstrando uma personagem bem envolvida e interressante, to adorando ver a dualidade dos dois juntos e como eles estão interagindo para conseguir sobreviver essa loucura.
Eles são personagens bem inteligentes m notar a mudança do ambiente aparentemente por conta de coisas que aconteceram nesse volume
Eles são personagens bem inteligentes m notar a mudança do ambiente aparentemente por conta de coisas que aconteceram nesse volume
June 9, 2017
snif, yo creí que iba a aguantar
February 28, 2018
Qué maravilla. Qué manera de hacer original, tierno, creepy y mil cosas más un manga sobre un tema tan trillado como los apocalipsis zombis. ¡A por el volumen sexto, YA!
September 13, 2020
ayy we just lost our girl
October 4, 2020
La trama avanza y cada vez te preocupas más por los personajes, especialmente al final con la revelación descorazonadora. Sniff...
January 28, 2021
No lo disfruté tanto como los otros porque me resultó más cansado que los anteriores, pero me gustó y entristeció el giro con los personajes principales :(
February 8, 2021
Love this story line !!
September 17, 2021
Eh…hope the other volumes progress.
Three stars still for the development of the MC, even if it was just a slight improvement.
Three stars still for the development of the MC, even if it was just a slight improvement.
June 28, 2023
Por um lado, 2chan my beloved, adoro quando os chans são usados realisticamente em livros.
Por outro lado, apreciei bastante a solenidade com que foi tratada esta morte
Por outro lado, apreciei bastante a solenidade com que foi tratada esta morte
October 9, 2025
she die like that...!
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November 21, 2025
Damn! Why did have to be Hayakari Hiromi ??
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