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地球の子 [Chikyū no Ko] #1
地球の子 1 [Chikyuu no Ko 1]
地球より力を授かりし、星降かれりは“地球の子”として世界平和のため極秘に活動していた。そんなある日、かれりが高校生・佐和田令助の命を救ったことをきっかけに2人の間に愛が芽生え始める…。しかし、2人の幸せをよそに、地球には人類滅亡の危機が迫っていた!! 地球の子として使命を果たそうとするかれり。愛する者の無事を祈る令助。2人を待ち受ける壮絶な運命とは──!?
ヒーローと一般人が紡ぐ、超絶スケールの純愛ラブストーリー、開幕──!!
ヒーローと一般人が紡ぐ、超絶スケールの純愛ラブストーリー、開幕──!!
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 3, 2022
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October 25, 2022
(I'm kinda-sorta cheating by saying I've read this. I was "following" the manga as it ran in Weekly Shounen Jump, by which I mean I tapped out pretty early on but continued to skim through the chapters as they aired on the MangaPlus app....)
This is dogshit. This is the worst manga I've ever read. I can only imagine Shinkai's ass-pussy has some kind of super-suction abilities, and he played all the Jump editors' dicks like a flute in order to not only have this published, but to have it last as long as it did.
I will admit, the first chapter was pretty good. But its issue, which extends to the manga as a whole, is it feels like a one-shot that cannot possibly be continued. So the main guy meets this superhero girl, and she's not allowed to hang out with civilians because their lives would be at danger, so her company WASTE uses Men in Black memory-wipes, but the main dude's boner is so hard that he can still remember her, and they begin a romantic relationship that lasts until she "dies," leaving the dude to raise their baby as a new Earthchild.
First off, the girl's "costume" fucking sucks. It's just gymclothes and a visor for her face. It would make sense if she was a freelancer, but she has a worldwide organization backing her, so it's just dumb. Second, the main chick is just, like, really sexy for no reason. I mean, her face is kind of plain-jane-y, but she's got ASS, and Shinkai shows it off during action scenes. It feels weird because otherwise the manga is "wholesome" in its portrayal of the chick and the romance, so it's like Shinkai is drawing while horny and lets off a bit of steam with the ass shots, then returns to normal soon afterward. And it's also difficult to enjoy the chick's ass when the writing is so awful otherwise.... Third, which probably should be first, the manga looks like a shitty Korean "webtoon," or at least it looks exactly like the stupid ads I get on the MangaPlus app about busty stepmoms wanting to fuck their stepsons, or whatever the hell, which I don't understand why that sort of thing is on the app, especially since so much of the current state of Jump is chaste and sexless, but whatever....
The above paragraph is just nitpicking the first chapter. The rest of the manga is godawful for different reasons. The biggest is that it's clear from Chapter 2 that Shinkai has no idea how he wants to continue the story. I don't care enough to go back and look, so I don't remember if it was as early as Chapter 2, but at some point we have narration from the baby's point-of-view, as if the idea is he's telling the story of his life, and how his mother and father set the stage for him to become the greatest Earthchild, or something. But then you get the baby seemingly having lucid thoughts in real-time? And the whole first volume's worth of chapters is just about the dad trying to raise his kid while WASTE wants to prepare him to become a superhero.
Here lies the ultimate problem: the manga makes no sense for a boys' magazine. It would be one thing if the second chapter skipped ahead to the baby as an elementary or middle-schooler, and just ripped off Boku no Hero Academia or something. But the manga is mostly about the fucking dad. The manga is about a single father raising his baby. In Shounen fucking Jump! I don't see the need to review individual volumes, and will instead write about the whole series here, so I'll add that the kid does become the protagonist... at the dead ass end of the series...! Like, within the last handful of chapters. And the kid, who's supposed to be about six looks like a teenager, for reasons that could have made sense with certain lore bits* but which don't because they were circumvented. So it's just bad art on Shinkai's part. Or he wanted an older kid hero, but fucked up the timeline.
I'll handle the "*" right now, since it really bugs me: the company WASTE have this thing where they can forcibly age an Earthchild to their early adult years so they'd be better suited to combat threats to the planet. This happened to the dude's wife. So the chick is technically, like, six years old when she's getting fucked and impregnated by the main guy. The idea is she's physically and mentally matured because of WASTE's technology, but... she's still six. I don't know, it's one thing if you build a feminine robot, modeled to look like an adult, then fuck it while it's only been "alive" for a few days, but... it doesn't work that way with flesh and blood. Or it shouldn't. I mean, shit, I'd say it's more appropriate to have an eighteen-year-old who looks six than to have a six-year-old who looks eighteen. Maybe? Either way is fucked up, but the path Shinkai took is definitely (probably) the more disgusting of the two. (And, yeah, I realize I earlier remarked on the main girl's nice ass, which is weird in retrospect after having brought this up, but... it's just cartoons, man.)
Which leads me to another major problem: the inconsistency of WASTE's technological abilities. They can forcibly age Earthchildren to maturity, but they can't build a device to take the petrified main-chick out of the space debris? (Oh, yeah, by the way, a chunk of the manga is about how the main chick isn't dead, but merely frozen in space, so they have to use the baby's telekinesis to pull her out of the field of debris. It's dumb as fuck and takes up a large portion of the manga, with a lot of diversions such as taking the baby to the main chick's parents' house so he'll magically learn to acknowledge his mother's petrified face and be able to move her with his mind?) There's other dumb shit for a manga that pretends to be science-fiction. One ally Earthchild had to stop a black hole that somehow formed on Earth (!?!?!?), which resulted in the black hole swapping his heart with his non-Earthchild brother's (!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?).
A major lore point is that the "Earthchildren" are granted their abilities by the Earth itself, to act as antibodies protecting it from bad things. I don't dislike the idea. Something similar is brought up in 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which I enjoyed. BUT... the Earth is the manga's antagonist (!?), taking the form of a cheerful high-school girl (????) within the main guy's mind to try to convince him to let his wife and kid die to protect the world. Which... isn't even evil. That's the Earthchildren's purpose. But Earth-chan acts evil because... she's designated the antagonist's role. And because the main guy can never be in the wrong.
This is the worst part of the manga: Shinkai portrays the main guy as the greatest man of all time, and everyone fucking fellates him. A character might dislike the main guy at first, but by the next chapter, or even just a few pages after their introduction, they'll praise him as the greatest dude. The "meme" on /a/ is to call him "Best Dad," and because of this I can't even remember the dude's real name. The meme is in reference to a similarly ironic appraisal of Gendou from Evangelion; Gendou famously ruins his son's life in order to "save the planet" (read: "try to bring his wife back to life"). Best Dad here is clearly a giant piece of shit, but he's the protagonist so anyone who goes against him must either be a Bad Guy or change to his side. I can't remember precisely, but some of Best Dad's greatest child-rearing moments include letting his psychic son almost kill him (ie, Best Dad) to wear himself (ie, the baby) out so he can go to sleep, and I'm pretty sure there was a part where WASTE members praise Best Dad for neglecting the baby on purpose...! It's somewhat important to note Best Dad barely does anything. He doesn't have superpowers, so he just bitches and moans until his baby saves the day by chance, or he annoys people so hard they trick themselves into thinking they respect him, then do the job for him. Earth-chan is about to destroy the world for some reason, but she fucks off for a bit because Best Dad just cries a lot. When she returns, the baby, now "grown" to the world's oldest six-year-old, seemingly places more respect for his father than the mother who actually taught him how to use his powers. It's one thing when, say, Bleach gives Ichigo all the powers, but... that's nowhere near as bad as Shinkai wanking over Best Dad. I would rather have the most overpowered self-insert power-fantasy isekai protagonist than have to ever read another chapter of Earthchild.
This is dogshit. This is the worst manga I've ever read. I can only imagine Shinkai's ass-pussy has some kind of super-suction abilities, and he played all the Jump editors' dicks like a flute in order to not only have this published, but to have it last as long as it did.
I will admit, the first chapter was pretty good. But its issue, which extends to the manga as a whole, is it feels like a one-shot that cannot possibly be continued. So the main guy meets this superhero girl, and she's not allowed to hang out with civilians because their lives would be at danger, so her company WASTE uses Men in Black memory-wipes, but the main dude's boner is so hard that he can still remember her, and they begin a romantic relationship that lasts until she "dies," leaving the dude to raise their baby as a new Earthchild.
First off, the girl's "costume" fucking sucks. It's just gymclothes and a visor for her face. It would make sense if she was a freelancer, but she has a worldwide organization backing her, so it's just dumb. Second, the main chick is just, like, really sexy for no reason. I mean, her face is kind of plain-jane-y, but she's got ASS, and Shinkai shows it off during action scenes. It feels weird because otherwise the manga is "wholesome" in its portrayal of the chick and the romance, so it's like Shinkai is drawing while horny and lets off a bit of steam with the ass shots, then returns to normal soon afterward. And it's also difficult to enjoy the chick's ass when the writing is so awful otherwise.... Third, which probably should be first, the manga looks like a shitty Korean "webtoon," or at least it looks exactly like the stupid ads I get on the MangaPlus app about busty stepmoms wanting to fuck their stepsons, or whatever the hell, which I don't understand why that sort of thing is on the app, especially since so much of the current state of Jump is chaste and sexless, but whatever....
The above paragraph is just nitpicking the first chapter. The rest of the manga is godawful for different reasons. The biggest is that it's clear from Chapter 2 that Shinkai has no idea how he wants to continue the story. I don't care enough to go back and look, so I don't remember if it was as early as Chapter 2, but at some point we have narration from the baby's point-of-view, as if the idea is he's telling the story of his life, and how his mother and father set the stage for him to become the greatest Earthchild, or something. But then you get the baby seemingly having lucid thoughts in real-time? And the whole first volume's worth of chapters is just about the dad trying to raise his kid while WASTE wants to prepare him to become a superhero.
Here lies the ultimate problem: the manga makes no sense for a boys' magazine. It would be one thing if the second chapter skipped ahead to the baby as an elementary or middle-schooler, and just ripped off Boku no Hero Academia or something. But the manga is mostly about the fucking dad. The manga is about a single father raising his baby. In Shounen fucking Jump! I don't see the need to review individual volumes, and will instead write about the whole series here, so I'll add that the kid does become the protagonist... at the dead ass end of the series...! Like, within the last handful of chapters. And the kid, who's supposed to be about six looks like a teenager, for reasons that could have made sense with certain lore bits* but which don't because they were circumvented. So it's just bad art on Shinkai's part. Or he wanted an older kid hero, but fucked up the timeline.
I'll handle the "*" right now, since it really bugs me: the company WASTE have this thing where they can forcibly age an Earthchild to their early adult years so they'd be better suited to combat threats to the planet. This happened to the dude's wife. So the chick is technically, like, six years old when she's getting fucked and impregnated by the main guy. The idea is she's physically and mentally matured because of WASTE's technology, but... she's still six. I don't know, it's one thing if you build a feminine robot, modeled to look like an adult, then fuck it while it's only been "alive" for a few days, but... it doesn't work that way with flesh and blood. Or it shouldn't. I mean, shit, I'd say it's more appropriate to have an eighteen-year-old who looks six than to have a six-year-old who looks eighteen. Maybe? Either way is fucked up, but the path Shinkai took is definitely (probably) the more disgusting of the two. (And, yeah, I realize I earlier remarked on the main girl's nice ass, which is weird in retrospect after having brought this up, but... it's just cartoons, man.)
Which leads me to another major problem: the inconsistency of WASTE's technological abilities. They can forcibly age Earthchildren to maturity, but they can't build a device to take the petrified main-chick out of the space debris? (Oh, yeah, by the way, a chunk of the manga is about how the main chick isn't dead, but merely frozen in space, so they have to use the baby's telekinesis to pull her out of the field of debris. It's dumb as fuck and takes up a large portion of the manga, with a lot of diversions such as taking the baby to the main chick's parents' house so he'll magically learn to acknowledge his mother's petrified face and be able to move her with his mind?) There's other dumb shit for a manga that pretends to be science-fiction. One ally Earthchild had to stop a black hole that somehow formed on Earth (!?!?!?), which resulted in the black hole swapping his heart with his non-Earthchild brother's (!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?).
A major lore point is that the "Earthchildren" are granted their abilities by the Earth itself, to act as antibodies protecting it from bad things. I don't dislike the idea. Something similar is brought up in 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which I enjoyed. BUT... the Earth is the manga's antagonist (!?), taking the form of a cheerful high-school girl (????) within the main guy's mind to try to convince him to let his wife and kid die to protect the world. Which... isn't even evil. That's the Earthchildren's purpose. But Earth-chan acts evil because... she's designated the antagonist's role. And because the main guy can never be in the wrong.
This is the worst part of the manga: Shinkai portrays the main guy as the greatest man of all time, and everyone fucking fellates him. A character might dislike the main guy at first, but by the next chapter, or even just a few pages after their introduction, they'll praise him as the greatest dude. The "meme" on /a/ is to call him "Best Dad," and because of this I can't even remember the dude's real name. The meme is in reference to a similarly ironic appraisal of Gendou from Evangelion; Gendou famously ruins his son's life in order to "save the planet" (read: "try to bring his wife back to life"). Best Dad here is clearly a giant piece of shit, but he's the protagonist so anyone who goes against him must either be a Bad Guy or change to his side. I can't remember precisely, but some of Best Dad's greatest child-rearing moments include letting his psychic son almost kill him (ie, Best Dad) to wear himself (ie, the baby) out so he can go to sleep, and I'm pretty sure there was a part where WASTE members praise Best Dad for neglecting the baby on purpose...! It's somewhat important to note Best Dad barely does anything. He doesn't have superpowers, so he just bitches and moans until his baby saves the day by chance, or he annoys people so hard they trick themselves into thinking they respect him, then do the job for him. Earth-chan is about to destroy the world for some reason, but she fucks off for a bit because Best Dad just cries a lot. When she returns, the baby, now "grown" to the world's oldest six-year-old, seemingly places more respect for his father than the mother who actually taught him how to use his powers. It's one thing when, say, Bleach gives Ichigo all the powers, but... that's nowhere near as bad as Shinkai wanking over Best Dad. I would rather have the most overpowered self-insert power-fantasy isekai protagonist than have to ever read another chapter of Earthchild.
April 9, 2022
I'm very torn on this series. It feels really rushed. We skipped from them meeting to having a child within the first chapter, and honestly I find the "Reisuke being a father to Mamoru while Kareri is a rock in space I guess" storyline to pale in comparison to the "Reisuke is a supportive soulmate to this superhero that protects the world from the shadows" storyline that was completely skipped over. Kareri is far too cool of a character to have been thrown into such a submissive and irrelevant role so early in the series. The series peaked in the first chapter, and while not bad per say, has been steadily declining since the first chapter. I don't expect the series to last much longer with how little cohesion there is in the writing. I'm going to keep reading for now, because I do like Reisuke and Kareri. But it's not something I get excited for every week.
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December 19, 2022
This series is an odd duck. I read it right up to its cancellation and it seemed as though the author actually had a long, long, LONG term plan that it just couldn't build to fast enough. The protagonist was supposed to be the child of the couple, but we actually spend 95% of the narrative following that couple through courtship, marriage, career problems, averting planetary disasters...and through about 65% of the series, the intended protagonist is a babbling infant! It's only in the last few chapters that we see him as a young adolescent and get a glimpse of what were probably intended to eventually experience. Ultimately, this was cute, quirky, different...but terribly paced for what it wanted to be and a story that probably wasn't a good fit for the Shonen manga market.
March 16, 2022
Stopped reading by chapter 2…strange storyline. Not as compelling as I thought, not my cup of tea, too — if you’re into the supernatural, science fiction vibe…you might want to check this out.
June 7, 2022
it's been terrible since the first chapter 💀
October 23, 2023
I had zero expectations going in except that it didn't have awesome reviews so I wasn't expecting much lol but regardless I actually really enjoyed it. I was a little thrown at first with how rushed it seemed until over the course of the volume my perspective on the story changed going from seeing it as your typical love story (apart from the superpowers obvs) to a love story of sorts but about a family in particular a Father for his son. Once I saw the story like that I began to really enjoy it and found it quite engaging although I still think it's a little rushed with some overly dramatic dialogue for my taste. The ending in particular was quite good though imo as it challenged what I thought I knew about this world and honestly made me really want to keep reading!
September 5, 2022
Starts off really cute and sweet. It would have been a 4 of 5, if it was just a sad one shot. However, I was shocked that they actually continued it. And I was loving it. But it ends up dragging out for too long.
Overall, I'm glad they continued it and gave it a happy ending. It is more about family and love, than it is about shonen action. So be prepared.
Overall, I'm glad they continued it and gave it a happy ending. It is more about family and love, than it is about shonen action. So be prepared.
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December 2, 2025
The beginning was really interesting and even if it bend heavily on the romance side, it had potential, but then something happen and we find ourselves reading more or less a «parental» manga (I stay very vague to be spoiler-free here, even if it’s an early one) which didn’t interest me in any way. I won’t go on with that one.
April 28, 2022
I also started reading this one weekly along with Gachiakuta. Tho tbh I don't know this is going or what's trying to do exactly like it doesn't follow the typical Shonen formula you kno... but I think could be interesting so I don't wanna drop it just yet
September 21, 2023
3.5
i definitely didn't expect the story to be this kind of vibe, especially with the time jump, but i really like it so far. it lowkey reminds me of invincible ( if you know, you know ), and i'm interested to see where this story goes since i've heard some mixed reviews as the series goes on.
i definitely didn't expect the story to be this kind of vibe, especially with the time jump, but i really like it so far. it lowkey reminds me of invincible ( if you know, you know ), and i'm interested to see where this story goes since i've heard some mixed reviews as the series goes on.
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