DEATHTOPIA Vol. 8

Deathtopia #8

by Yoshinobu Yamada

The true enemy reveals himself, new assassins draw ever closer, and the shocking events of the past are uncovered… the adventure comes to a climax! An enthralling tale of beautiful women and suspense told by Yoshinobu Yamada, the best-selling creator of Weekly Shonen Magazine’s Cage of Eden. A roller coaster til the very end!

Genres: Manga, Horror

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 16, 2018

About the author

Author of Cage of Eden (エデンの檻 Eden no Ori), Chanbara (チャンバラ) and EX - Shounen Hyouryuu (EX～少年漂流～)

Reviews

[Nouru-éddine]

DEATHTOPIA

Chapters: 66
Pages: 1626

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Tags:

Action, Drama, Horror, Seinen, Mystery, Supernatural, Crime, Psychological, Ecchi, dystopian.

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Overall content:


Thrill and Action: 80% (So exciting!!!)

Picturing: 97% (Amazing!!! The characters are so well illustrated. I felt the realness of them.)

Plot: 85% (The plot twist is unbelievable!!!)

Bloody Death and Horror: 85% (So much blood and deformed corpses.)

Nudity (Ecchi): 92% (Fully naked figures. Nude girls. Up-skirts. Filthy poses. Panties and Lingerie.)

Violence: 65% (Heartless battles and street fights with pistols and knives.)

Swear words: 40% (F words. What the hecks!)

Sex: 40% (Sexual harassments and intercourses. Pervert touchings. Obscene hints.)

Romance: 7% (The secret attachment between the protagonist and a girl of the crew.)

Drugs: 3% (Mentioned in between lines.)

LGBT: 10% (Fully naked group of girls showering together.)

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My impression:

This Manga has left a great impact on me. It's full of action, scientific theories and vulgarity.

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Storyline:

A group of three young-and-pretty-looking girls, each of whom has a mysterious history with so-called CHEATERS (humans stopped being humans any more). So that they gathering to fight them.
Then, out of a weird incident, an innocent-looking guy appeared with a claimed story that he has a psychic superpower against those CHEATERS (He could indicate their faces and negate their special powers)

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Black eyes shift:






It reminds me of Yuugi's millennium puzzle that turns him into another side when his friends are in a serious danger.
It's a main motif in Manga - the preciousness of true friendship can make real miracles.

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What does not I like:

- Volume 8 has revealed a wide range of the plot threads so quickly all at once after a long warming up through the previous volumes.

- Too much dialogues without delivering new information helping the plot.

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Concerning Ecchi:

I think it's a well-illustrated dystopian city is full of the absence of good and values. The vulgarity helped sketching the dirty face of the darn DEATHTOPIA.

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How much I liked it?
60%

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VOLUME 8

Chapters: 56 - 66
Pages: 257

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Thrill!

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Even monsters have hearts.

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I can not believe that!

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Some biology class!

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What a confrontation between the black eyes shifting Greehorn and The Master!

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What a group!

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A sequel?

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[Amara]

Overall the series was enjoyable. Though it seemed to vary from chapter to chapter how great it was. The characters were a bit too 2D, but given the 66 chapters that might be forgiven.
The ending was satisfying enough, but the first volume was definitely the best out of the 8.
The action is great and graphic. The art style is wonderful and quite detailed.

There were some plotlines you could see coming from miles away like the Darth Vader moment. On the other hand the plot twist at the end concerning the negating power just felt ridiculous and out of place. I wish 'master' had been introduced a bit earlier because that plotline just seemed to come out of the blue, while he was the one behind a lot of events.

Overall score for the series: 3,5

[عاشور الناجي]

أنا تجاوزت مشاهد العري الغير مبرر من أول المانجا خصوصا وإنه البطلات مش خارقين ولا لابسين يونيفورم مخصوص زي الجماعة بتوع مارفل ودي سي ، بس يعني الواضح إنه الأفورة بتاعة العري المؤلف فاهمها وقاصدها وشبه بيتريق عليها في الكام صفحة اللي في نهاية كل مجلد ، دعايا تسويقية رخيصة أو فئة من القراء هو مستهدفها مش هتفرق كتير ، بس هنا فكرة إنه أخته كمان بتتعامل معاه وكأنه حبيبها مش أخوها ولازقة فيه ومقربة منه كانت غريبة الصراحة وتتفهم غلط قوي وكويس إنه عداها علطول ومطلعهاش بقت بتحبه فجأة هي كمان بعد ما اكتشفت إنه مش أخوها ، وعموما هي أخته في المجلد ده وضعها غريب أصلا ومكنش فيه تمهيد ليها من قبل كده ، ودخولها بعد ما كان مش مفهوم في الأول بقي يعني واضح في النهاية هو ليه اختار يخشرها من أول المجلد عشان تساهم في قفلة الأحداث بس كان زي اللي افتكرها فجأة كده

شخصية أمه بقي اللي طلعت تجري وهي عريانة ويادوب لابسة واقي ضد الرصاص معرفناش راحت فين ولا جت منين ويعني ده لو مسلسل كنا هنقول بيمهد لأجزاء تاني بس المفروض القصة خلصت
بس برضه دي حاجات تتعدي ، زي حاجات كتير لازم تتعدي بحكم إنه المانجا خلصت ، منها مثلا فرقة البنات الشبيهة بالابطال اللي برضه لابسين قصير وعريان وحشرهم فجأة من غير مقدمات وأنهاهم فجأة ورجع دخل واحدة منهم في الفريق فجأة برضه بدون مقدمات وكأنه في مجلدات ناقصة في النص ، والشرير الشبيه بملك الليل اللي بقاله سنين بيجهز للحظة انتصاره ويموت فجأة بخطة ساذجة زي دي في كام صفحة

عجبتني فكرة إنه في شرير أكبر من الشرير اللي احنا عارفينه واللي صادف إنه مكنش شرير ولا حاجة ده كان مجرد حد بيحاول يساعد ، مكنتش مقنعة قوي فكرة تقطع راسه وترجع تلحمها كذا مرة عشان تقول إنه خالد مش بيموت والاخر طلع بيموت عادي ومكنش مقنعة انه هيصحي الاموات ويحرق طوكيو وهو يادوب تحت ايده 3 بنات وبيخطط لانقلاب عسكري مش مضمون نجاحه كل ده في الكام صفحة اللي في الآخر

ككل يعني وفي المجمل القصة حلوة جدا وعجبتني
خصوصا وإنها صغيرة ومفتحتش معانا في عشروميت مجلد ،وكان ممكن اختصارها تاني لأنه فيه تفاصيل عبيطة كتير حشرها في النص بدون داعي
الرسومات كانت جيدة لولا انه الرمؤلف زي مايكون مريض أو منحرف خصوصا مع اصراره علي الزوايا اللي بيرسم منها واللي طول الوقت مبينه ملابسهم الداخلية
معاك قصة حلوة يمكن مكررة في الياباني بس تفاصيلك حلوة ومختلفة ومكنش فيه داعي لده بس يعني هو ودماغه بقي
مش من حاجات احب اكررها او حتي اناقشها مستقبلا

[47Time]

Ud pushes Kuh into using his power by threatening the girl trio. Kuh destroys Makie's holding tank which has her deformed body pour out. Ud hoped Kuh's power would help Makie reconstitute herself, but she remains just a random mass. The cheater named Chameleon poses as Makie to kill Ud.

They still have the Master - Akito Magata, Ud's brother-in-law, because everyone is related here - to deal with. Murasame continues the fight and asks the trio and Kuh to help save Tokyo. Kuh's sister Hinata also joins the gang, as she is also a capable cheater. They pose as guests at a wedding carried out by the Master who is also a priest. Everyone has hidden identities, like superheroes. While the Master is distracted, the good guys decaptate him. This goes to prove that those wavy, floating, puffy wedding dresses can hide all sorts of things. Even fatally wounded, Master can survive for minutes while the bullets fly all over the place. One of his followers sacrifices herself to try to save him - she cuts off her own head and mounts Master's in its stead. You know, like Legos. He returns to his body and mounts his head back, good as new. Dude, that's Legos, through and through.

After Master stabs Yui, Kuh gets in the zone, black eyes and all. His power negating ability finally activates and Master's healing is turned off. All his wounds open up again. It doesn't help that Kuh pulls out Master's heart with his bare hands and then kicks him in the fire. The whole church burns to the ground, but most of the good guys make it out. Kuh protects Yui from the flames and somehow helps her heal from Master's fatal stab.

The good guys return to fighting Master's leftover cheaters, now with Hinata and Aoi to help. Yeah, girl power! And Koh who is mostly a girl anyway.

[Stephen Sanchez]

Started good but ended meh

Short and sweet series, illustration are top notch, story starts off intriguing but kind of fell flat, the story goes off the rails as if the author was cut told to.cut the series short, I would have like to read more on the main character's family background, if they continue this manga I'll probably read them

[Kaiju Reviews]

Somehow, I felt this final volume to be rushed despite the fact that I was tiring of it. All in all, I enjoyed the series but felt it worked better as a villain of the month type story. Given it an elaborate show-down plot right before wrapping it up felt forced and awkward.