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犬屋敷 [Inuyashiki] #1
Inuyashiki, Vol. 01
Ichiro Inuyashiki tem apenas 58 anos, mas aparenta ser muito mais velho. Ele é constantemente desrespeitado por sua família e descobriu que tem câncer terminal. Ou seja, não tem motivo algum para continuar vivendo. Esta é uma história que poderia se encerrar aqui, mas, na verdade, está só começando.
204 pages, Paperback
First published May 23, 2014
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Hiroya Oku
289 books335 followersHiroya Oku (奥浩哉 Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He has finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.
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November 6, 2024
Kindly submissive dog-loving Inuyashiki Ichiro is a 58 year old husband and father of two who looks in his 70s. His kids are embarrassed for anyone to know they are related to him. Yet he has well-provided for his family and supported them as much as he can; when he get diagnosed with a terminal disease, he can't even get an opening to tell them as they, as usual ignore him or are just dismissive! After being struck by a blinding light his life is changed forever.. 'cos he has now got superpowers!
Not just your average man becomes powerful story; this is oh so told in such a delightful and realistic way as the acquirement of powers has Inuyashiki thinking more about helping those in need that fighting crime. I now fully realise the only way I was going to get read a book like GANTZ, was to read another series by the awesome Hiroya Oku. I just love his simplistic looking but powerful artwork, his plotting and most of all for having a 58 year old lead in this series. Absa-definitely reading this entire series, I know this already!
2024 read
Not just your average man becomes powerful story; this is oh so told in such a delightful and realistic way as the acquirement of powers has Inuyashiki thinking more about helping those in need that fighting crime. I now fully realise the only way I was going to get read a book like GANTZ, was to read another series by the awesome Hiroya Oku. I just love his simplistic looking but powerful artwork, his plotting and most of all for having a 58 year old lead in this series. Absa-definitely reading this entire series, I know this already!
2024 read
April 24, 2023
Despite of being so sad, Tears won't come out...
I had really high expectations for this, they came crashing down bad, Did Hiroya Oku lose his mojo?
Did he lose everything that made Gantz successful in the first place?
He felt like he was pushing emotions on his reader so bad, like Desperate Bad...
At first i was like okay, It's the protagonist you want to give him a sob story, i don't mind, he will turn his life around, and we will be done with this.
But then he Gave the homeless guy a sob story as well, we don't need a sob story to care about his safety and wellbeing, The Guy was already being targeted by a bunch of pieces of shit who killed 3 homeless people already, He didn't have to be about to turn his life around for us to care!
And i couldn't stop the overwhelming feeling at this point, that the writer is begging for emotions.
So Forget about that aspect! What about the story?
It's kind of mediocre at best so far, i didn't lose all hope in hiroya to turn this around yet, But even the Sci-fi aspect didn't intrigue me, The Guy turns into a full blown cyborg who has retained his memories and his soul (if there is even such a thing)
Sinister shadows are coming to destroy his happiness.
But when he is about to defend the homeless guy, he gets knocked out, and his body's self defense systems take care of the attackers?
It didn't really feel as epic as the writer might have thought it is!
Inuyashiki though reminds me of old timer Arab actor abdelmonem madbouly, i really feel like i am looking at him!
I feel that Hiroya got the idea of making this manga, when he thought okay... what if we make the oldest Protagonist in Manga history?
Its a brilliant idea, but poorly executed, specially that if he didn't already have a huge success like Gantz, and this was his first manga, nobody would even continue waiting weekly to read this, the start was super slow, that only privileged manga writers get to have.
But The Huge improvement was the art, it is clean! Super clean and so so beautiful!
Hiroya oku improved miles even over his former amazing level art.
Anyway back to where it all began, i will read it at a slower rate, but i will finish it this year for sure.
May 12, 2016
I don't know why I finished this.
(Well, I do, because I hate not finishing things.)
I absolutely HATED every character. I realize that's probably the point, but I wasn't even pulling for the old man because he lets himself be a doormat. Even after he finds out he's still kind of a loser.
I belatedly realized this author also wrote Gantz, which I got so sick of but kept reading anyway. I feel like my reaction to Inuyashiki is similar, although I'm hating on it much sooner.
The artwork is clean but lacks ... something. It gets the job done and the attention to detail is superb, but it's practically soulless.
I might continue on, at least for one more volume.
(I say that, but watch, I'll read the whole stupid thing.)
(Well, I do, because I hate not finishing things.)
I absolutely HATED every character. I realize that's probably the point, but I wasn't even pulling for the old man because he lets himself be a doormat. Even after he finds out he's still kind of a loser.
I belatedly realized this author also wrote Gantz, which I got so sick of but kept reading anyway. I feel like my reaction to Inuyashiki is similar, although I'm hating on it much sooner.
The artwork is clean but lacks ... something. It gets the job done and the attention to detail is superb, but it's practically soulless.
I might continue on, at least for one more volume.
(I say that, but watch, I'll read the whole stupid thing.)
March 19, 2022
This is a review of the entire series.
Fifty-eight-year-old Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck and still struggling to find a place in the world after living for so long. He’s constantly ignored, disrespected and put down by his dissatisfied family and judgmental peers regardless of how much effort he puts into trying to give them everything he can to make them happy. He’s too depressed and afraid to stand up for himself and he struggles to find a reason to keep living such an unfulfilling life. Things seem to brighten up for him after he adopts a cute and affectionate dog he names Hanako, but his happiness is instantly robbed from him when he learns from his doctor that he’s been diagnosed with cancer and has less than three months left to live.
Ready to run away from all of his responsibilities and burdens, Ichiro takes a long walk away from home with Hanako and stops to take a rest under the night sky in an empty park to gather his thoughts. Just when things seem like they’ve reached their lowest point, a UFO of all things comes crashing down to earth and lands right on top of the frail old man and a nearby bystander. It seems to be an unfortunate end for Ichiro, until he wakes up completely unscathed and feeling healthier than ever. Hanako is still by his side when he awakes, and both of them know that something isn’t quite right. It seems that the aliens driving the UFO took pity on the poor old man and performed an emergency operation to bring him back from the dead, upgrading his body with their superior technology and leaving him with a few new tricks up his sleeve to keep him safe from harm, such as enhanced vision, hearing, strength, durability and the ability to fly.
With his new and improved hearing capabilities, Ichiro overhears a group of young thugs ganging up on homeless people and beating them to death with baseball bats in the distance. He instinctively rushes to the aid of their next victim and gives the kids the scare of their life after awakening his new superhuman abilities. The homeless man is saved and the kids are brought to justice. For the first time in his life, Ichiro feels like his existence actually means something.
After saving the homeless man, Ichiro takes control of his life with his newfound abilities by using them to save thousands of innocent people from death and violence. After living through one tragedy after another, Ichiro finally finds his purpose, becoming a hero of the people and earning the love and respect he’s desperately wanted since he was a young boy.
Unknown to Ichiro however, the boy that happened to be at the park on the night of the incident went through a similar procedure. The antagonist is a sociopathic teenage boy named Hiro Shishigami, who was blessed with the same godlike powers as Ichiro after having his body reconstructed by the aliens. Unlike the kind old man however, Hiro has no intentions of using his powers for good. And so begins an unlikely battle between a heroic, lovable grandpa and a young genocidal maniac.
Inuyashiki explores what happens when people suddenly gain the power of gods. Some people use it to turn their lives around, other people use it to take revenge on the world. Power doesn’t always corrupt a person, there are a few genuinely good souls out there that put their power and influence to good use. Ichiro is a humble man that only feels alive when he saves other people from death and despair, he uses his power out of love for humanity and only wishes to be loved in return. He’s fragile and reliant on others, but he’s selfless and heroic all the same.
Hiro only feels alive when he sees other lives come to an end. He hates the world and he feels nothing towards others, with the exception of his mother, a single friend from school and a girl he develops surprisingly warm feelings for. This is where his sociopathic tendencies begin to get more complex, because he genuinely seems capable of having strong feelings toward a select group of people. He also cries for fictional characters when reading his favorite books and he even breaks down in tears when bad things happen to the few people he cares about. His unpredictable nature makes him a terrifying and fascinating individual, breaking the definition of a pure sociopath or psychopath.
That being said, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more interesting hero/villain dynamic than that of a sweet old grandpa and a demented teenager. One thing I absolutely loved about the dark subject matter of the story is that the extreme violence and psychological horror elements throughout the series were taken very seriously. It’s never done just for shock value or being over the top, even though there are quite a few incredibly disturbing moments. Every single time someone dies or a cruel act is performed, the characters always take the time to reflect on the aftermath of the consequences of what happened and gives you enough time to soak in the pain.
Ichiro values human life, and even sheds tears when he has no choice but to use violence against irredeemable criminals that refuse to surrender to justice. Even Hiro begins to reflect on his life choices and abuse of his superhuman powers after the consequences of his actions catch up to him and transform his unstoppable rampage into an ocean of guilt, regret and self-loathing. Not a single act goes unpunished in this series, and the way these actions linger in the characters' minds and forces them to take a second look at themselves is masterfully done.
It’s a very original take and criticism on the superhero genre. Heroes and villains are criticized in equal measure. You can rarely do something good without having a few negative consequences that go along with it, and the opposite can also be true. It portrays society in a nihilistic, yet very believable way by cleverly integrating parodies of twitter drama and forum-based chat sites such as 4chan, where everyone is desensitized to kindness and cruelty and get off on dehumanizing each other from behind the safety of a computer monitor. If a superhero or a supervillain were to appear in this day and age, many people would probably shrug off their actions because they’ve been so desensitized by internet culture and ultra-violent media. People can hear about school shootings and terrorist attacks that killed thousands of innocent people on the news everyday and not bat an eye because they’ve heard the same old story so many times before. As sad as it may sound, sometimes people just come to expect the absolute worst from the world and they grow numb to the shocking events that transpire every moment. The satirical yet harsh social commentary benefits the adult superhero narrative to great effect.
Inuyashiki isn’t all doom and gloom, however. It’s actually a very heartwarming tale about being able to overcome your status as an outcast, accepting your role in the world and coming to terms with your past in order to change your life around for the greater good. I think the ending really hits home with these themes and messages, and it sure as hell sent me through an emotional roller coaster.
If there’s one thing to take away from this series, it’s that everyone has a hero inside of them waiting for their chance to shine. No matter how feeble, meaningless or cruel your past actions may have been, there’s always a new opportunity waiting just around the corner if you ever decide to make a change for the better and bring something good into the world. These acts of kindness might not make up for the things you’ve done in the past, but there’s no denying that they have the potential to make the future a brighter place for someone else. No matter how insignificant they may seem, every little action, choice and sacrifice you make has the power to change the future. It’s never too late to start doing the right thing.
Fifty-eight-year-old Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck and still struggling to find a place in the world after living for so long. He’s constantly ignored, disrespected and put down by his dissatisfied family and judgmental peers regardless of how much effort he puts into trying to give them everything he can to make them happy. He’s too depressed and afraid to stand up for himself and he struggles to find a reason to keep living such an unfulfilling life. Things seem to brighten up for him after he adopts a cute and affectionate dog he names Hanako, but his happiness is instantly robbed from him when he learns from his doctor that he’s been diagnosed with cancer and has less than three months left to live.
Ready to run away from all of his responsibilities and burdens, Ichiro takes a long walk away from home with Hanako and stops to take a rest under the night sky in an empty park to gather his thoughts. Just when things seem like they’ve reached their lowest point, a UFO of all things comes crashing down to earth and lands right on top of the frail old man and a nearby bystander. It seems to be an unfortunate end for Ichiro, until he wakes up completely unscathed and feeling healthier than ever. Hanako is still by his side when he awakes, and both of them know that something isn’t quite right. It seems that the aliens driving the UFO took pity on the poor old man and performed an emergency operation to bring him back from the dead, upgrading his body with their superior technology and leaving him with a few new tricks up his sleeve to keep him safe from harm, such as enhanced vision, hearing, strength, durability and the ability to fly.
With his new and improved hearing capabilities, Ichiro overhears a group of young thugs ganging up on homeless people and beating them to death with baseball bats in the distance. He instinctively rushes to the aid of their next victim and gives the kids the scare of their life after awakening his new superhuman abilities. The homeless man is saved and the kids are brought to justice. For the first time in his life, Ichiro feels like his existence actually means something.
After saving the homeless man, Ichiro takes control of his life with his newfound abilities by using them to save thousands of innocent people from death and violence. After living through one tragedy after another, Ichiro finally finds his purpose, becoming a hero of the people and earning the love and respect he’s desperately wanted since he was a young boy.
Unknown to Ichiro however, the boy that happened to be at the park on the night of the incident went through a similar procedure. The antagonist is a sociopathic teenage boy named Hiro Shishigami, who was blessed with the same godlike powers as Ichiro after having his body reconstructed by the aliens. Unlike the kind old man however, Hiro has no intentions of using his powers for good. And so begins an unlikely battle between a heroic, lovable grandpa and a young genocidal maniac.
Inuyashiki explores what happens when people suddenly gain the power of gods. Some people use it to turn their lives around, other people use it to take revenge on the world. Power doesn’t always corrupt a person, there are a few genuinely good souls out there that put their power and influence to good use. Ichiro is a humble man that only feels alive when he saves other people from death and despair, he uses his power out of love for humanity and only wishes to be loved in return. He’s fragile and reliant on others, but he’s selfless and heroic all the same.
Hiro only feels alive when he sees other lives come to an end. He hates the world and he feels nothing towards others, with the exception of his mother, a single friend from school and a girl he develops surprisingly warm feelings for. This is where his sociopathic tendencies begin to get more complex, because he genuinely seems capable of having strong feelings toward a select group of people. He also cries for fictional characters when reading his favorite books and he even breaks down in tears when bad things happen to the few people he cares about. His unpredictable nature makes him a terrifying and fascinating individual, breaking the definition of a pure sociopath or psychopath.
That being said, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more interesting hero/villain dynamic than that of a sweet old grandpa and a demented teenager. One thing I absolutely loved about the dark subject matter of the story is that the extreme violence and psychological horror elements throughout the series were taken very seriously. It’s never done just for shock value or being over the top, even though there are quite a few incredibly disturbing moments. Every single time someone dies or a cruel act is performed, the characters always take the time to reflect on the aftermath of the consequences of what happened and gives you enough time to soak in the pain.
Ichiro values human life, and even sheds tears when he has no choice but to use violence against irredeemable criminals that refuse to surrender to justice. Even Hiro begins to reflect on his life choices and abuse of his superhuman powers after the consequences of his actions catch up to him and transform his unstoppable rampage into an ocean of guilt, regret and self-loathing. Not a single act goes unpunished in this series, and the way these actions linger in the characters' minds and forces them to take a second look at themselves is masterfully done.
It’s a very original take and criticism on the superhero genre. Heroes and villains are criticized in equal measure. You can rarely do something good without having a few negative consequences that go along with it, and the opposite can also be true. It portrays society in a nihilistic, yet very believable way by cleverly integrating parodies of twitter drama and forum-based chat sites such as 4chan, where everyone is desensitized to kindness and cruelty and get off on dehumanizing each other from behind the safety of a computer monitor. If a superhero or a supervillain were to appear in this day and age, many people would probably shrug off their actions because they’ve been so desensitized by internet culture and ultra-violent media. People can hear about school shootings and terrorist attacks that killed thousands of innocent people on the news everyday and not bat an eye because they’ve heard the same old story so many times before. As sad as it may sound, sometimes people just come to expect the absolute worst from the world and they grow numb to the shocking events that transpire every moment. The satirical yet harsh social commentary benefits the adult superhero narrative to great effect.
Inuyashiki isn’t all doom and gloom, however. It’s actually a very heartwarming tale about being able to overcome your status as an outcast, accepting your role in the world and coming to terms with your past in order to change your life around for the greater good. I think the ending really hits home with these themes and messages, and it sure as hell sent me through an emotional roller coaster.
If there’s one thing to take away from this series, it’s that everyone has a hero inside of them waiting for their chance to shine. No matter how feeble, meaningless or cruel your past actions may have been, there’s always a new opportunity waiting just around the corner if you ever decide to make a change for the better and bring something good into the world. These acts of kindness might not make up for the things you’ve done in the past, but there’s no denying that they have the potential to make the future a brighter place for someone else. No matter how insignificant they may seem, every little action, choice and sacrifice you make has the power to change the future. It’s never too late to start doing the right thing.
March 25, 2017
Mein Einstieg ins Manga Genre - etwas plakativ mit hölzernen Dialogen, aber total gut gezeichnet, kurzweilig und spannend! Bin mit diesem Genre anscheinend angefixt
September 6, 2017
I really enjoyed reading it, it's a promising new sci-fi manga series.
It is really well drawn, I absolutely loved the artwork.
It is really well drawn, I absolutely loved the artwork.
March 25, 2017
Old Man Robocop is best Robocop. Ahem, now that the sound byte, meme-review is out of the way, Inuyashiki so far is part study in neglect of the elderly, and part superhero origin story.
Oku's storytelling is always hit or miss, but the worlds he builds up are invariably compelling, if overwhelmingly dark. GANTZ, for example, relied more on spectacle than coherent storytelling for its individual plot arcs, but the overall examination of how terrible people can be to each other made it a real page-turner, for those who looked below the surface. His works are always dripping with social commentary, and the examples put forth in the opening act of this volume of Inuyashiki may be the best examples of this he's yet put forth. Ichiro Inuyashiki is the patriarch of his family, but he gets absolutely no respect, despite his best efforts to provide for them--a fact not helped by the fact that he looks at least 15 years older than he actually is (prompting his daughter to refer to him as her grandfather, to her friends). He's taken entirely for granted, ignored, and even outright shunned for the first couple of chapters, and in all honesty, the result is a devastating read. And it tugs at the heartstrings all the stronger, because I could actually see this happening in real life...and then an alien spaceship crashes on him.
I don't mean to undercut the gravity of the situation by stating it so bluntly, because the story is still good after this happens. Essentially, before taking back off, the aliens reconstruct a facsimile of Ichiro (and another person who happened to be nearby), and the plot shifts gears. There's still a focus on cruelty, neglect, and man's inhumanity to man (as well as a dose of body horror, as robo-Ichiro realizes the truth), but the difference now is that he can actually start doing something to change things.
The story gets a bit spotty toward the end, though. (e.g. A group of teenagers seems to get murdered at one point, but they're okay a few panels later--it suggests that what hit them wasn't actually lethal, but at the time it sure looks like it. Lots of questions raised, either way.) It's disappointing to see a story that began with such a bang fizzle slightly at the end, but I'm definitely on board to see where this goes. Even being familiar with Oku's other work, I honestly can't predict where he might go with this.
Oku's storytelling is always hit or miss, but the worlds he builds up are invariably compelling, if overwhelmingly dark. GANTZ, for example, relied more on spectacle than coherent storytelling for its individual plot arcs, but the overall examination of how terrible people can be to each other made it a real page-turner, for those who looked below the surface. His works are always dripping with social commentary, and the examples put forth in the opening act of this volume of Inuyashiki may be the best examples of this he's yet put forth. Ichiro Inuyashiki is the patriarch of his family, but he gets absolutely no respect, despite his best efforts to provide for them--a fact not helped by the fact that he looks at least 15 years older than he actually is (prompting his daughter to refer to him as her grandfather, to her friends). He's taken entirely for granted, ignored, and even outright shunned for the first couple of chapters, and in all honesty, the result is a devastating read. And it tugs at the heartstrings all the stronger, because I could actually see this happening in real life...and then an alien spaceship crashes on him.
I don't mean to undercut the gravity of the situation by stating it so bluntly, because the story is still good after this happens. Essentially, before taking back off, the aliens reconstruct a facsimile of Ichiro (and another person who happened to be nearby), and the plot shifts gears. There's still a focus on cruelty, neglect, and man's inhumanity to man (as well as a dose of body horror, as robo-Ichiro realizes the truth), but the difference now is that he can actually start doing something to change things.
The story gets a bit spotty toward the end, though. (e.g. A group of teenagers seems to get murdered at one point, but they're okay a few panels later--it suggests that what hit them wasn't actually lethal, but at the time it sure looks like it. Lots of questions raised, either way.) It's disappointing to see a story that began with such a bang fizzle slightly at the end, but I'm definitely on board to see where this goes. Even being familiar with Oku's other work, I honestly can't predict where he might go with this.
June 5, 2024
After reading "Gantz" and "Gigant," I approached "Inuyashiki" expecting it to be the weakest of the three.
Now, I'm not so sure.
This series offers a profound critique of today's youth, particularly regarding the treatment of older people.
Inuyashiki, a 58-year-old man suffering from various health issues, is mistreated and disrespected by his own family despite working tirelessly to provide for them and managing to afford a modest home.
An extraordinary event changes his life forever.
The first volume of this series genuinely surprised me, and I'm eagerly anticipating the next volumes.
Now, I'm not so sure.
This series offers a profound critique of today's youth, particularly regarding the treatment of older people.
Inuyashiki, a 58-year-old man suffering from various health issues, is mistreated and disrespected by his own family despite working tirelessly to provide for them and managing to afford a modest home.
An extraordinary event changes his life forever.
The first volume of this series genuinely surprised me, and I'm eagerly anticipating the next volumes.
October 24, 2015
I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. Inuyashiki contains many elements seen in other sci-fi manga such as the role of technology in interpersonal relations and the question of what makes us human, in this case, because the main character's physical body is no longer human due to some mysterious aliens killing him and restoring him as a weird cyborg. However, this title feels different somehow, for reasons that I can't necessarily pinpoint. It could be that it's more serious, which is reflected in the artwork, which is less stylized than most manga. It could also be because the main character is a 58-year-old man. The main character has family who depressingly undervalues and disdains him. He experiences depression at his family situation and his diagnosis of terminal cancer; experiences a freaky, bewildering stage of self-discovery that he's no longer human; and, by chance, he saves a homeless man's life, which apparently convinces him to become a 58-year-old cyborg vigilante.
I'm curious where this one will go. I also find it amusing that the author made fun of his previous work, Gantz in this volume, and that the main character's best, and constant, companion is a shiba dog.
I'm curious where this one will go. I also find it amusing that the author made fun of his previous work, Gantz in this volume, and that the main character's best, and constant, companion is a shiba dog.
April 23, 2023
Another evocative sci-fi!!
A 58-year-old seinen hero that looks like an old man straight out of the retirement homes—who becomes a robotic alien or something? Come on!
I need old Inuyashiki and Shishigami to meet and team up!! I think they will be a horrific duo. Don't burst my bubble, I also get the feeling that they might be at-war with each other when they finally meet, but come on, Shishigami is a fricken shounen manga reader. He's gotta be a good boy, right?! And old man Inuyashiki is determined to save a lot of soul to prove himself that he's still human even without insides.
At first, I was kind of put off by the art style. It has some seinen webtoon vibes, sort of like Lookism art style, I think. But the story is good, so I'll stay here. I haven't read a good old sci-fi in a while, and Inuyashiki is really pumping up my heart right now. It also gives me that Breaking Bad vibes, without the drugs, of course. And Mr. White's family loves him, you know (at first.) Now, in this series, I'm just waiting for our own Mr. White and Pinkman to finally meet up!
A 58-year-old seinen hero that looks like an old man straight out of the retirement homes—who becomes a robotic alien or something? Come on!
I need old Inuyashiki and Shishigami to meet and team up!! I think they will be a horrific duo. Don't burst my bubble, I also get the feeling that they might be at-war with each other when they finally meet, but come on, Shishigami is a fricken shounen manga reader. He's gotta be a good boy, right?! And old man Inuyashiki is determined to save a lot of soul to prove himself that he's still human even without insides.
At first, I was kind of put off by the art style. It has some seinen webtoon vibes, sort of like Lookism art style, I think. But the story is good, so I'll stay here. I haven't read a good old sci-fi in a while, and Inuyashiki is really pumping up my heart right now. It also gives me that Breaking Bad vibes, without the drugs, of course. And Mr. White's family loves him, you know (at first.) Now, in this series, I'm just waiting for our own Mr. White and Pinkman to finally meet up!
December 9, 2019
What drew me into this series was the idea of an elderly protagonist. It's rare in manga to see something like this, as many writers tend to gravitate towards highschool students to try and appeal to their target demographic. Instead what we got was a fascinating view of the life of a humble, modest man nearing the end of his life, and how he copes with protecting his family and dealing with the idea of having new alien robotic abilities. Through his actions we see him question what it means to be truly human or alive. Coming to the aid of innocent people in order to feel any sense of life and to convince himself that even after the accident, he still has a human conscience.
It has one of the best anime opening IMO
"My Hero" by Man with a Mission
September 5, 2015
A promising new sci-fi manga series with an appeal to the adult reader. A compelling new take, for me at least, with an old man as the main character. Though they make him out to be older than he is in actual years, kind of a life has been hard on him thing. The book starts off very sad and goes into quite a deep character study of this man, his life, family and view of the world around him. Then he and a stranger and hit by a blinding light and his world is forever changed. The sci-fi angle is really cool and for a first volume a lot happens including just enough information to get the reader hooked. The book ends with the introduction of the second character and I'm really excited to see if he's going to be the protagonist to Inuyashiki. Really detailed clear art as well.
May 25, 2019
It's different than other mangas that I read, but I liked it.
January 27, 2023
Reread ( more complete )
Ichiro's children often pass him off as their Grandpa when friends see their father.
He's a 58 year old salary man...who has just been told he has a few months to live...
But then one fateful night...he gets dead....but has the luck/misfortune to be replaced by something that looks exactly like him on the outside.....
Ichiro's children often pass him off as their Grandpa when friends see their father.
He's a 58 year old salary man...who has just been told he has a few months to live...
But then one fateful night...he gets dead....but has the luck/misfortune to be replaced by something that looks exactly like him on the outside.....
July 27, 2019
I liked the story, but didn't care for the art style.
March 7, 2021
Well I certainly didn’t realise we could be getting a elderly protagonist in this manga cause there’s always the protagonist being a high school kid doing mischief in the manga world lol. I was surprised to know that this manga had also a MAPPA anime adaption in 2017, although 11 episodes wouldn’t cut the whole manga tbh. Anyways the story was rather a hit or a miss because a lot of things happened that were pretty underwhelming with its contunious kill fest (. I really liked the art though like it was spot on with each characters facial expressions, it was as if they are real life. It was all just so natural! I do wish though that we could deep dive into Shishigami on exactly what goal he was plotting to kill people in the first place. Although flashback tropes are pretty much annoying but in this manga, it was badly needed to give the reader a proper overview on why Shishigami became “the Light alike baddie” in the first place. I felt the author didn’t really focus on Shishigami too much but only the old man. I mean cmon they are both cyborgs like hello? Lol!
Yeah this manga is good to read atw if you’re bored as f if you don’t know what manga to read next.....
Yeah this manga is good to read atw if you’re bored as f if you don’t know what manga to read next.....
April 7, 2025
[volumes 1-10, chapters 1-81] a seinen manga take on modern nihilist deconstruction of superpowers a la The Boys/Invincible, this got MUCH better as it went on, settling in around volume 4.
For a series that gets recommended on its art, I thought it was…fine? but not necessarily inspiring. There’s a lot of technically skilled two page spreads in here, especially towards the end, and it builds a lot of contrast with the actual most visually interesting moments: a dude standing perfectly still in simplified high contrast shadow
For a series that gets recommended on its art, I thought it was…fine? but not necessarily inspiring. There’s a lot of technically skilled two page spreads in here, especially towards the end, and it builds a lot of contrast with the actual most visually interesting moments: a dude standing perfectly still in simplified high contrast shadow
March 10, 2016
I picked this one up randomly at Kinokuniya the other day and had no idea what I was getting into. It's like Kurosawa's Ikiru meets... I don't even know, really. Ghost in the Shell? Twilight Zone? Something like that.
Not sure how far I'll get into the series, but reading the first volume was a hoot!
Not sure how far I'll get into the series, but reading the first volume was a hoot!
June 1, 2017
I feel honestly bad for Inuyashiki. His family is a shitshow. Great pilot volume, though. Hit plenty of good notes here. Gross in places, but that is to be expected from this author.
June 5, 2018
Great art, and quite poignant in the depiction of loneliness and interior life.
June 9, 2018
Inuyashiki is a 58-year-old man who is unloved by everyone in his life. When he moves his family to a new home, all everyone does is gripe about it - how small the place is, how cheap he is, etc. He has a young son and teen daughter, both of whom are embarrassed by how old he is. They also don't respect him and don't bother to hide this fact. When Inuyashiki proposes that the family get a dog, no one will come with him, so he ends up selecting a Shiba, Hanako, on his own. It seems that Hanako is the only being in the world that Inuyashiki has to live for, until one fateful evening, when he and a teenage boy end up forever changed.
I picked up the first couple volumes of this in a Humble Bundle a while back. There's Humble Bundle with more volumes of this and other series up right now, and I'm still debating whether to get it.
This first volume of Inuyashiki didn't leave me wishing I had more in my collection. The characters were, for the most part, horrible. I doubt any of the people in Inuyashiki's family ever genuinely loved each other, and the world of this series seemed to be entirely populated with bullies. The only character I even vaguely liked was the dog, and something about this series makes me suspect that the dog isn't going to make it through the whole thing.
The artwork definitely wasn't to my taste. There was something slightly unsettling and repulsive about it, even before Inuyashiki discovered that there was something strange going on with his body. Maybe this was intentional, but the result was that I didn't really want to spend more time than necessary looking at pages and panels.
The sci-fi aspects were weird and a little hand-wavy. The goals of the beings Inuyashiki and Shishigami, the teenage boy, encountered were never stated outright, but they seemed to want to avoid causing a stir, or perhaps to avoid affecting humans with their appearance too much. Either way, they failed miserably, and their failure seems likely to grow more pronounced in later volumes.
I'm really not impressed with this series so far.
Extras:
Two pages of translation notes.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
I picked up the first couple volumes of this in a Humble Bundle a while back. There's Humble Bundle with more volumes of this and other series up right now, and I'm still debating whether to get it.
This first volume of Inuyashiki didn't leave me wishing I had more in my collection. The characters were, for the most part, horrible. I doubt any of the people in Inuyashiki's family ever genuinely loved each other, and the world of this series seemed to be entirely populated with bullies. The only character I even vaguely liked was the dog, and something about this series makes me suspect that the dog isn't going to make it through the whole thing.
The artwork definitely wasn't to my taste. There was something slightly unsettling and repulsive about it, even before Inuyashiki discovered that there was something strange going on with his body. Maybe this was intentional, but the result was that I didn't really want to spend more time than necessary looking at pages and panels.
The sci-fi aspects were weird and a little hand-wavy. The goals of the beings Inuyashiki and Shishigami, the teenage boy, encountered were never stated outright, but they seemed to want to avoid causing a stir, or perhaps to avoid affecting humans with their appearance too much. Either way, they failed miserably, and their failure seems likely to grow more pronounced in later volumes.
I'm really not impressed with this series so far.
Extras:
Two pages of translation notes.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
September 10, 2015
I got a copy of this to review through the Amazon Vine program. This was a well done and intriguing start to a new manga series. I ended up really enjoying it and being very curious about what will happen next.
Inuyashiki’s life is pretty awful. Him and his family have just moved into a new house, but he obviously gets no respect from them. He looks very old for his age and this translates into him not getting respect in a lot of areas in his life. His only joy is a small dog that he adopts. Then things get even worse, he’s diagnosed with stomach cancer and only has a short while to live. His luck takes a strange turn when he is struck by light one night, light that explodes everything around him...yet he emerges strangely unharmed. As time goes on Inuyashiki finds out that he may not be as unchanged as he thought.
This is a strangely compelling story. It starts out like a pretty basic seinen and then towards the end gets very sci fi. Inuyashiki comes across as somewhat pitiful, yet is very compelling as a character and lends the story a strangely melancholy, yet hopeful, feel. His canine friend is very cute.
The manga is really well drawn, has a lot of detail and is easy to follow. I enjoyed the illustration and found it very engaging. The look at Japanese society in these pages is a fairly bleak one; there just aren’t a lot of nice people or characters in the story.
The story takes some truly crazy turns and towards the end things have gotten very interesting. I would love to talk about this more in the review but it would include major spoilers...so I won’t.
Overall a very engaging and interesting manga. It’s starts off as a seinen about a middle aged man who leads a somewhat pitiful and aimless life, but ends up being a story with some crazy science fiction aspects to it. I would definitely recommend and am incredibly curious as to where this story is going.
Inuyashiki’s life is pretty awful. Him and his family have just moved into a new house, but he obviously gets no respect from them. He looks very old for his age and this translates into him not getting respect in a lot of areas in his life. His only joy is a small dog that he adopts. Then things get even worse, he’s diagnosed with stomach cancer and only has a short while to live. His luck takes a strange turn when he is struck by light one night, light that explodes everything around him...yet he emerges strangely unharmed. As time goes on Inuyashiki finds out that he may not be as unchanged as he thought.
This is a strangely compelling story. It starts out like a pretty basic seinen and then towards the end gets very sci fi. Inuyashiki comes across as somewhat pitiful, yet is very compelling as a character and lends the story a strangely melancholy, yet hopeful, feel. His canine friend is very cute.
The manga is really well drawn, has a lot of detail and is easy to follow. I enjoyed the illustration and found it very engaging. The look at Japanese society in these pages is a fairly bleak one; there just aren’t a lot of nice people or characters in the story.
The story takes some truly crazy turns and towards the end things have gotten very interesting. I would love to talk about this more in the review but it would include major spoilers...so I won’t.
Overall a very engaging and interesting manga. It’s starts off as a seinen about a middle aged man who leads a somewhat pitiful and aimless life, but ends up being a story with some crazy science fiction aspects to it. I would definitely recommend and am incredibly curious as to where this story is going.
May 28, 2017
I love Gantz. It's one of my fave animes of all time. I took a lot of inspirations from it when I began writing. So when Oku said he would be doing another Manga I jumped on it right away. Did we get another masterpiece? Or least as entertaining as Gantz? Not really but alot of interesting ideas.
What I liked: Ichiro (the main character) is treated like shit by his family. His daughter thinks he's a loser. His wife makes fun of his age/look. His son is embarrassed of him. It's awful and you actually feel for the old man. I also love the pacing. You get to really get a look inside of his life but also get to the main plot quickly once a alien ship of somesort lands on top of the old man and another young man. When Ichiro awakens he notices he's not all that human anymore. Being able to transform to a robot, which is pretty badass. You see him, the old man use his powers for good, and it's awesome.
What I didn't like: Some of the art can be iffy. Almost feels like the characters are out of place. I also think the last chapter is a little cheesy. Alot of throwback to Gantz, and it feels like the author is just feeding his own ego. We get it, Gantz is fun and awesome, but dissing your critics is a little sad. I didn't like that. And it felt pointless with these new kids and the ending was easy to see coming.
I'm still eager to get deeper in. While not as good as Gantz start it still is very exciting. Hopefully it gets even better. A 3.5/5.
What I liked: Ichiro (the main character) is treated like shit by his family. His daughter thinks he's a loser. His wife makes fun of his age/look. His son is embarrassed of him. It's awful and you actually feel for the old man. I also love the pacing. You get to really get a look inside of his life but also get to the main plot quickly once a alien ship of somesort lands on top of the old man and another young man. When Ichiro awakens he notices he's not all that human anymore. Being able to transform to a robot, which is pretty badass. You see him, the old man use his powers for good, and it's awesome.
What I didn't like: Some of the art can be iffy. Almost feels like the characters are out of place. I also think the last chapter is a little cheesy. Alot of throwback to Gantz, and it feels like the author is just feeding his own ego. We get it, Gantz is fun and awesome, but dissing your critics is a little sad. I didn't like that. And it felt pointless with these new kids and the ending was easy to see coming.
I'm still eager to get deeper in. While not as good as Gantz start it still is very exciting. Hopefully it gets even better. A 3.5/5.
August 10, 2017
Well, that was a quick read. This is a Seinen about a salaryman who gave his everything to get a better home for his family, only to be rewarded by taking crap from each and every one of them about his elderly appearance, the house being too small, and other insignificant superficial problems they have with him.
So yeah, this'll definitely be an acquired taste since the story is so negative with that premise. Thankfully there is a turn, though I don't want to spoil too much. There's also a secondary main character in a young man who has a joked about Shounen sense of righteousness who is clearly being set up as the one to talk some sense into his daughter.
Again, there's an anime style twist to this story that takes it in another direction. I can't help bit be reminded of Baccano, Parasyte, or I Am a Hero. The story also pokes fun at Gantz being a crap tier manga, which I assume was written or illustrated by the same Mangaka since the designs are so similar. Kind of interesting to see him poke fun at his own work and give Twitter opinions and the like. I am interested in seeing whether this becomes a tragedy or a feel good story. There's a light amount of violence involved right now, but I could see the stakes rising later, especially where our title character has a vulnerable family they could use to tug at our heartstrings.
So yeah, this'll definitely be an acquired taste since the story is so negative with that premise. Thankfully there is a turn, though I don't want to spoil too much. There's also a secondary main character in a young man who has a joked about Shounen sense of righteousness who is clearly being set up as the one to talk some sense into his daughter.
Again, there's an anime style twist to this story that takes it in another direction. I can't help bit be reminded of Baccano, Parasyte, or I Am a Hero. The story also pokes fun at Gantz being a crap tier manga, which I assume was written or illustrated by the same Mangaka since the designs are so similar. Kind of interesting to see him poke fun at his own work and give Twitter opinions and the like. I am interested in seeing whether this becomes a tragedy or a feel good story. There's a light amount of violence involved right now, but I could see the stakes rising later, especially where our title character has a vulnerable family they could use to tug at our heartstrings.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 4, 2018
A promising new sci-fi manga series with an appeal to the adult reader. A compelling new take, for me at least, with an old man as the main character. Though they make him out to be older than he is in actual years, kind of a life has been hard on him thing. The book starts off very sad and goes into quite a deep character study of this man, his life, family and view of the world around him. Then he and a stranger and hit by a blinding light and his world is forever changed. The sci-fi angle is really cool and for a first volume a lot happens including just enough information to get the reader hooked. The book ends with the introduction of the second character and I'm really excited to see if he's going to be the protagonist to Inuyashiki. Really detailed clear art as well.
January 6, 2018
A sad sack salaryman's life sucks until a dramatic event turns his life around: he adopts a shelter dog. Before the incredibly cute dog can completely fix things, though, the guy also gets super powers, at which point we get a delightful rehash of TV "Greatest American Hero" in a mash-up with the dark superhero movie "Chronicle." Inuyashiki is a 57 year old guy who looks to be 10 to 20 years older, but despite the emotional beating he has taken from his long, unappreciated life, his first instinct is still to help his fellow man even if he isn't very good at it and ends up taking a physical beatdown. That makes him a terrific hero in my book.
August 20, 2016
Been meaning to read this series for a while. Shea and I will discuss the first four volumes on an upcoming manga episode of The Comics Alternative podcast. This is a successful first volume, setting everything up and establishing the tone. My one criticism is that the protagonist, Inuyashiki, seems almost too pathetic at times. Oka trying too hard to set the premise?
December 2, 2019
An interesting premise...
This is the origin-story of an odd, unlikely super-hero: the old, feeble, Inuyashiki San. He is at his wits end when he experiences a strange, life-altering encounter. His kids despise him and his wife barely tolerates his existence and all he has for intimacy is his Shiba doggie. This one piqued my interest enough to be on the lookout for #2!
This is the origin-story of an odd, unlikely super-hero: the old, feeble, Inuyashiki San. He is at his wits end when he experiences a strange, life-altering encounter. His kids despise him and his wife barely tolerates his existence and all he has for intimacy is his Shiba doggie. This one piqued my interest enough to be on the lookout for #2!
March 3, 2020
4,5/5. J'ai bien aimé ce premier volume de la série. Léger, mas divertissant et un concept que j'étais bien curieux d'observer et de voir se développer. Je poursuivrai certainement l'aventure prochainement!
December 10, 2015
Wow, I'm so surprised! I'm in for Vol 2 to see where this goes. Cool
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