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Wāqwāq #2
Wāqwāq, Vol. 2
In the ultimate war of man vs. machine, the fate of humanity lies with a teenage cyborg named Shio! R to L (Japanese Style). The Three Sages The girl who could be the Kami is kidnapped by a trio of mysterious sages. To save her, Shio must join forces with a former opponent and battle through a slew of ever-more-powerful renegade Guardians! Living in constant fear of attack from machines, mankind depends on the cyborg Protector corps known as the Guardians to keep them from harm as they await the arrival of the Kami, a godlike savior with mythical red blood. Shio, son of a Guardian, has found a red-blooded girl! Could she be the Kami they've been waiting for?
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200 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2005
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March 3, 2021
VOLUME 2 REVIEW;
We get more character development and battles. Standard shonen fair. There is no real romance, so don't expect that from this. Nothing is new is done, but if you got through the 1st volume. You will feel better about this one.
SUMMARY OF PREMISE (spoiler-free);
This is basically a Shonen Science-Fantasy, set in a post-apocalyptic world called WaqWaq. There are only 3 life forms that exist in this mostly deserted landscape of sand. Black-blood humans who are androids. They live underground towns to protect themselves from Machines. These Machines are trying to destroy black-bloods because they rebelled against Red-blood humans (the original humans, aka us). Which wiped out all of red bloods. The red-bloods created both the black-bloods and machines, but aren't able to turn off the programming of the machines. So the machines are constantly stuck trying to destroy black-bloods. But 3 Magis (basically gods in this world), created 7 powerful machines that can fuse with a black-blood, giving them super natural powers. These black-bloods are designated as Guardians of the towns, and protect them in a endless war of black-bloods vs machines.
OVERALL REVIEW;
In a nutshell. It reminds me of CLAMP's X series (that they never finished). Where a Kami (human red-blooded girl from another timeline) arrives in the world and can grant one wish to a person. But instead of that Kami being all powerful, the Guardians of the WaqWaq world are all powerful, as well as the 3 Magis. So in that sense, it is more like Escaflowne, set in a Nier Automata dystopian future.
The rest of the artwork—gives me Samurai 8 vibes—however sometimes it is hard to tell what is going on, because the art can get congested sometimes.
The series doesn't start off good for me. It is hard to connect to some of the characters because the character development is poor; including the death scenes. I can even think of more likeable characters from other series.
Battles and abilities aren't even that interesting. Even though they give me some Megaman vibes. Such as our Main Characters default power is Eating and he gains the abilities of his defeated foes. He swallows Fire, then Fire burns Wood, and Wood drains Water.
Lastly, we have plenty information about the main characters father, but nothing about the mother. Which seems so strange to me. There are themes of ethnic cleansing like Attack On Titan, but it doesn't try to send a bad message.
We get more character development and battles. Standard shonen fair. There is no real romance, so don't expect that from this. Nothing is new is done, but if you got through the 1st volume. You will feel better about this one.
SUMMARY OF PREMISE (spoiler-free);
This is basically a Shonen Science-Fantasy, set in a post-apocalyptic world called WaqWaq. There are only 3 life forms that exist in this mostly deserted landscape of sand. Black-blood humans who are androids. They live underground towns to protect themselves from Machines. These Machines are trying to destroy black-bloods because they rebelled against Red-blood humans (the original humans, aka us). Which wiped out all of red bloods. The red-bloods created both the black-bloods and machines, but aren't able to turn off the programming of the machines. So the machines are constantly stuck trying to destroy black-bloods. But 3 Magis (basically gods in this world), created 7 powerful machines that can fuse with a black-blood, giving them super natural powers. These black-bloods are designated as Guardians of the towns, and protect them in a endless war of black-bloods vs machines.
OVERALL REVIEW;
In a nutshell. It reminds me of CLAMP's X series (that they never finished). Where a Kami (human red-blooded girl from another timeline) arrives in the world and can grant one wish to a person. But instead of that Kami being all powerful, the Guardians of the WaqWaq world are all powerful, as well as the 3 Magis. So in that sense, it is more like Escaflowne, set in a Nier Automata dystopian future.
The rest of the artwork—gives me Samurai 8 vibes—however sometimes it is hard to tell what is going on, because the art can get congested sometimes.
The series doesn't start off good for me. It is hard to connect to some of the characters because the character development is poor; including the death scenes. I can even think of more likeable characters from other series.
Battles and abilities aren't even that interesting. Even though they give me some Megaman vibes. Such as our Main Characters default power is Eating and he gains the abilities of his defeated foes. He swallows Fire, then Fire burns Wood, and Wood drains Water.
Lastly, we have plenty information about the main characters father, but nothing about the mother. Which seems so strange to me. There are themes of ethnic cleansing like Attack On Titan, but it doesn't try to send a bad message.
August 19, 2021
In the previous volume, a young girl, Matsuda, was forcibly taken from our time to become the future's new red-blooded god. Being in this world endangers her greatly, as both machines and black-bloods are drawn to her - machines are drawn to her for strength and black-bloods are drawn with a sudden urge to kill. During a fight to protect a village and save the young girl from a machine, a Guardian falls and transfers his power to his son, Shio, before he dies. Shio then learns how to fuse with his Sakimori so that he can protect the new red-blooded god.
In this volume, we don't learn new things about the main characters or the world, but we do learn that the Gojin-Zou have a sort of Type like Pokemon do (fire-types are strongest against plant, water is strongest against fire, etc.) This volume is mostly fight scenes. The first scene is with Leo, who loses his Gojin-Zou to Shio and follows Shio around to get it back. Leo is an OK character, he's pretty grumpy and serious but I expect that will change in later volumes. We are introduced to one character who is really fun, he's a ninja who wants to be a guardian some day so he uses his ninja skills to sneak off with the group to save Matsuda.
In this volume, we don't learn new things about the main characters or the world, but we do learn that the Gojin-Zou have a sort of Type like Pokemon do (fire-types are strongest against plant, water is strongest against fire, etc.) This volume is mostly fight scenes. The first scene is with Leo, who loses his Gojin-Zou to Shio and follows Shio around to get it back. Leo is an OK character, he's pretty grumpy and serious but I expect that will change in later volumes. We are introduced to one character who is really fun, he's a ninja who wants to be a guardian some day so he uses his ninja skills to sneak off with the group to save Matsuda.
May 28, 2026
Pretty good and fire towards the end.
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