Aposimz, Vol. 8

人形の国 [Ningyou no Kuni] #8

by Tsutomu Nihei

Durante il loro tragitto verso il centro dell’Impero Ribedoa, Etherow e compagni arrivano nei pressi della città di Lutowmelo. Qui vedono un enorme automa galleggiare nei cieli e, sotto di lui, una moltitudine di cittadini contagiati dalla malattia dei frame. Una situazione che l’Impero non può accettare e che è disposto a cancellare con ogni mezzo!

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comics

168 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2021

About the author

See also 弐瓶 勉.

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.

At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...

Reviews

[Thresk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Earns its rating on the introduction of the Execution Squad alone

[Katharine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
This series really needs to stop starting volumes with the equivalent of filler episodes in an anime. The fight with the random team REALLY felt like just filler. Why the HELL was one of the Frames in the random team just standing there with his entire armored dick out?! Which grew bigger in every single panel he was in? Then his dick was his actual "head", the part that held his brain? What the hell was that even? Not to mention the other Frame in the random team, when de-armored, is just running around in panties and nipple pasties? The random sexual aspects in this story are so off-putting and out of nowhere. The entire thing with the gigantic Automaton from the Church of the True Core is weirdly reminiscent of some of the crazy stuff I've seen in Chainsaw Man. Wasabu getting kidnapped is kind of irritating because it feels like he was only added to the group to get used later for bait. Also, Etherow's response of being so upset that Wasabu has been kidnapped by the Empire feels very out of character. Why is he getting so emotional over Wasabu, when he's only shown that he tolerates Wasabu at best? Also, I laughed when Titania goes all goddess mode and is like I̶̧͛́̚͜ ̸̰͙̞̓͝ẉ̷̆ì̶͔ͅl̶̞̗̪͒͋l̷͓͐̒ ̸͕́̐g̷̢̧̖̋̔ȑ̴̙̹͙a̸̺̮͋͗̉n̵̠̋̄̕ţ̶̖͇̏ ̴͙͓͊̇͜y̴͇̻͆o̴̻̰͌̋u̶̩̳͊̿ ̷̺̙́̊͝ả̸͍̺̺ ̴̻̳͔͛͑̃ẁ̴͖͕͕͑̕i̵̤̙̙̋s̷͚̫̩̎͗h̷̤̕ͅͅ only to see the enemy ship and instantly go "You know what, never mind, no wishes allowed". Like girl, make up your mind. At this point, I honestly only hope we get to see what the Core actually looks like.

[47Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

The fights aren't fun any more and the new character designs are boring or just plain impractical. This chapter seems to focus on a giant floating being tasked by Kajiman with spreading the frame disease and then gathering all of the infected for an unknown purpose. Etherow's bunch, though still wanted by the empire, find themselves working alongside it to stop the spread. The question is do they even remember their own goals? I do simply because I wrote it down for a review, but I'm thinking this manga is going to end on a crappy note.

Kajiman is believed to be acting based on a folk tale. It says that the surface dwellers, to escape their harsh lives, must become infected in order to return to the Core. The guy is a nut, so his actions make some sense.

Etherow is forced to fight against 40 empire frames. The battle is surprisingly short, considering the gems this series started with, and we are right back to running around again. The brilliant empire shows its ugly side. After losing 38 frames against Etherow, what does it do? It punishes the remaining two frames, even though they were trying to do something useful by extracting information from Wasabu. Utter lack of logic, especially since the culprits aren't just executed, but tortured. That'll teach 'em! And now Etherow is getting ready to save Wasabu, of course. Even with Wasabu dead, Etherow is the vengeful type.

[Baltiyak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wheels have not fallen off but they are wobbling

Points for the awesome cover but feel let down by the contents. This volume keeps a lot of the spooky aesthetic that I've come to love from this series. The first chapter (43) was very good in that regard. But the further conflicts in volume were lackluster. The first one was ok minus some weird character designs but the later one just did not do it for me. For the first time I got annoyed with how a fight started and ended in this series. It was just too easy and felt kinda pointless.

Ultimately, my rating of Vol 8 is also heavily influenced by the foreknowledge that there is only one more volume to wrap everything up. Its hard for me to see how it will be done satisfactorily and makes me more annoyed at wasted time.

And I actually had a hard time reading the manga this time. I'd have to reread some panels to get a sense of the movement. There was an issue of same-faceness that made it hard to distinguish a couple newly introduced characters. Which I was already kinda miffed at since I wanted to see more development of characters we already had in the Empire and True Core Church.

[Sophie Townsend · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such an intense volume. Things appear to getting really out of hand for all parties. New creeps have shown up and Wasabu is fast becoming a fav charcter. But omg cliffhanger at the end!!!! Ahhhh i love this series.

[Ocean · Rating 3 out of 5]

This had a lot more interesting stuff going on in it, but at the rate the story moves, I feel an unsatisfactory ending on the horizon. Stuff that I want the story to explore is not being explored, whereas things that I'm not as interested in are front and center.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as individual chapters (43-48).

3.08

[Lilly Ruiter · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok i know the monsters are supposed to be scary but they are so cute i cant