Alive
アライブ最終進化少年
- story by Kawashima Tadashi
- art by Adachi Toka
- runs in Monthly Magajin
- coming soon from Del Rey
Abruptly, without warning, hundreds of thousands of people start killing themselves. Smiling as they plunge into the pavement. Happy to die.
Staggering out of the aftermath, a few people find themselves with stange new powers...
There's a bit of a sickening lurch a few volumes in where Alive shifts gears from straight up horror to shonen fighting adventure. But it isn't through shifting gears, and manages to keep ahead of you, moving the story to a conclusion with much tighter pacing than the genre usually demonstrates. And the events seem to have much more impact as well -- partly because the characterization is extremely well done, partly because this is happening in our world on a global scale, but probably mostly because Adachi Toka is a fucking amazing artist. He has a clean, fine line like Oh! Great, but without the somewhat bizarre storytelling choices, both in layouts and sheer insanity. You almost forget how good the art is because it's serving the story so well.
The beautiful watercolor wraparound covers really stood out on the shelves in Japan, and this is one of a very small number of series I picked up on cover alone. And was glad that I had.
(Not to be confused with the one volume Alive, by Takahashi Tsutomu and turned into a movie by that hack Kitamura Ryuhei. That Alive SUCKED ASS.)
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