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3.0
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I finally finished reading this odd serious. Honestly, I find it really hard to review graphic novels, so the next time I start a series, I will be reviewing them in bunches instead of individual volumes.
So the plot, yeah, it's a little confusing I hate to say it. Dead End is an acquired taste, it's an odd hybrid of mystery, horror, surrealism, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, psychological, maybe even a bit absurd, that could be the sparse and rough artwork though. There's a big twist at the end, and the ending was a bit unexpected and sudden for me. I enjoyed the gross out gore and the depressing existential crisis stuff, this manga was quite, literary for me. I sound pretentious, but this is really how I feel about it. My feelings are kind of confused though, because I love this, but it ended on a note that was sort of "here you go, the end."
Dead End is a series about a dude who is a bum basically, disillusioned with life, feeling as if it is all pointless. The same old routine, the same old booze and dirt.Until a girl named Lucy falls from the sky. But then as he gathers his past friends, that he had forgotten about due to some sort of erasure, he regains all of the fragments and fills in the emptiness. That's when you discover that they live in a post-apocalyptic world and that they are some sort of engineered human beings, my memory is a bit foggy. I won't talk anymore plot, because spoilers.
The artwork has improved somewhat. Manabe's art is such a breathe of fresh air like I said before. Big lips, ugly tense facial expressions, blood spattering everywhere.The buildings and scenery, lined, minimally and scratched in. I will admit that sometimes the expressions and scenery was a bit hard on the eyes, I had to squint to see what was happening in the smaller panels.
But my feelings for this series is generally positive. Maybe, I will buy my own copies, however, new copies are hard to find. Apparently it's all out of print. Shohei Manabe doesn't seem to be too popular in the U.S. So I can say that Dead End is pretty darn underrated, meaningful, and touching.
General rating for the series: 3.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/02/dead-end-volume-3-and-4-by-shohei-manabe.html
I finally finished reading this odd serious. Honestly, I find it really hard to review graphic novels, so the next time I start a series, I will be reviewing them in bunches instead of individual volumes.
So the plot, yeah, it's a little confusing I hate to say it. Dead End is an acquired taste, it's an odd hybrid of mystery, horror, surrealism, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, psychological, maybe even a bit absurd, that could be the sparse and rough artwork though. There's a big twist at the end, and the ending was a bit unexpected and sudden for me. I enjoyed the gross out gore and the depressing existential crisis stuff, this manga was quite, literary for me. I sound pretentious, but this is really how I feel about it. My feelings are kind of confused though, because I love this, but it ended on a note that was sort of "here you go, the end."
Dead End is a series about a dude who is a bum basically, disillusioned with life, feeling as if it is all pointless. The same old routine, the same old booze and dirt.Until a girl named Lucy falls from the sky. But then as he gathers his past friends, that he had forgotten about due to some sort of erasure, he regains all of the fragments and fills in the emptiness. That's when you discover that they live in a post-apocalyptic world and that they are some sort of engineered human beings, my memory is a bit foggy. I won't talk anymore plot, because spoilers.
The artwork has improved somewhat. Manabe's art is such a breathe of fresh air like I said before. Big lips, ugly tense facial expressions, blood spattering everywhere.The buildings and scenery, lined, minimally and scratched in. I will admit that sometimes the expressions and scenery was a bit hard on the eyes, I had to squint to see what was happening in the smaller panels.
But my feelings for this series is generally positive. Maybe, I will buy my own copies, however, new copies are hard to find. Apparently it's all out of print. Shohei Manabe doesn't seem to be too popular in the U.S. So I can say that Dead End is pretty darn underrated, meaningful, and touching.
General rating for the series: 3.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/02/dead-end-volume-3-and-4-by-shohei-manabe.html
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