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Dead End #2
Dead End: Volume 2
Noppori and Pocchari are two nasty hitmen. Stitch Head is a mute and monstrous heavy on a mysterious mission. And Mr. Q is quick-tempered, foul-mouthed thug who just might be the solution to everyone's problems. When Shirou, Gips and Parrot try to convince Mr. Q to join up with them, he agrees--for the right price. But the cost will take the trio into a murky underworld where the only way out might be to pay with one's life.
- GenresManga
232 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2005
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About the author
Shōhei Manabe
125 books5 followersShōhei Manabe (真鍋昌平) is a veteran manga-ka with numerous titles under his belt, including his worldwide best seller Ushijima the Loan Shark, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was the winner of the 56th Annual Shogakukan Manga Award. Two of Manabe's manga have been made into motion pictures, including the acclaimed manga Smuggler, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2011.
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August 7, 2016
Keep your wits about you and pay very close attention with this one because just like the amnesiac protagonist the reader is trying to piece together what the heck is going on and it does jump around in time with flashbacks. But persevere with it because it's a great story and wonderfully dark and twisted.
There is a cast list at the beginning of this one with a mini bio of each character - I found this invaluable and did have to refer back to it a few times.
My particular favourite scene in this is where our hero has a dilemma - he's got 3 minutes to retrieve a case of money. The case is attached to a boy by handcuffs that can only be undone by the key which the boy has been forced to swallow. They cannot take the boy with them because as well as being cuffed to the case he's also cuffed at the leg to the corpse of a paedophile they just shot - options - knife the kid and try and remove the key in time or cut off his hand...
Being the second volume nothing is really explained but we are constantly being told that not everything is as it seems. Love the freaky super strong mysterious villain Stitch-head. I also didn't hate the artwork so much in this one - yes it's still ugly but the style is growing on me, or maybe I'm just getting more and more into the story.
Can't wait for volume 3.
There is a cast list at the beginning of this one with a mini bio of each character - I found this invaluable and did have to refer back to it a few times.
My particular favourite scene in this is where our hero has a dilemma - he's got 3 minutes to retrieve a case of money. The case is attached to a boy by handcuffs that can only be undone by the key which the boy has been forced to swallow. They cannot take the boy with them because as well as being cuffed to the case he's also cuffed at the leg to the corpse of a paedophile they just shot - options - knife the kid and try and remove the key in time or cut off his hand...
Being the second volume nothing is really explained but we are constantly being told that not everything is as it seems. Love the freaky super strong mysterious villain Stitch-head. I also didn't hate the artwork so much in this one - yes it's still ugly but the style is growing on me, or maybe I'm just getting more and more into the story.
Can't wait for volume 3.
June 22, 2015
Borrowed From Someone
We continue on with the second of the four volume series. The main characters meets another friend, some flashbacks of the girl, and some gangster violence. There aren't too many answers revealed, but that's what you would expect for the second volume. So there isn't much of a change except that you learn that the main character isn't much of a brute. he has a heart, he wouldn't kill a innocent being, even if he had to complete some crazy mission. Again, I love this series so far, except for this one, because I'm going crazy trying to figure out what these pinhead monsters are. I will say that this is probably some of the oddest manga series I've ever read. I really wished I wrote down the page numbers for the nice lines of dialogue of life ruminations.
Rating: 3/5
We continue on with the second of the four volume series. The main characters meets another friend, some flashbacks of the girl, and some gangster violence. There aren't too many answers revealed, but that's what you would expect for the second volume. So there isn't much of a change except that you learn that the main character isn't much of a brute. he has a heart, he wouldn't kill a innocent being, even if he had to complete some crazy mission. Again, I love this series so far, except for this one, because I'm going crazy trying to figure out what these pinhead monsters are. I will say that this is probably some of the oddest manga series I've ever read. I really wished I wrote down the page numbers for the nice lines of dialogue of life ruminations.
Rating: 3/5
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