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Night Head Genesis, Vol. 1
by George Iida, You Higuri
I admit it. I’m ambivalent about Higuri’s work. I think her art is beautiful but her storylines take off in odd ways and I find the shonen-nei a bit frustrating. I’d rather it be full out yaoi, frankly. However, this is neither yaoi (or at least I don’t believe so) nor written by Higuri. She did however adapt Iida’s story and illustrate it.
The one thing that is a tad annoying for the non-Japanese speaker (and maybe for those who are, since it’s annoying in English when author’s do this), is that the brother’s names are nearly identical. Naoto and Naoya Kirihara are brothers with psi abilities. Naoto, the older of the two, seems to have PK while Naoya reads minds and sees the future. This develops very earlier on and their parents turn them over to an institute run by Mikurya. We don’t get to see much of this place.
The story picks up when the brothers are older and they manage to escape. Mostly they just want to try and live a normal life. How they plan to do this the reader has no idea. One assumes being raised away from humanity, they aren’t just going to get jobs and blend back in. That point is moot however as Kamiya, a well known psychic foresees the end of humanity when a virus escapes from a lab and mutates and that somehow the brothers are involved.
Kamiya has a way of manipulating his fans to get them to act on his wishes, such as to do away with the Kirihara brothers. While the brothers try to dodge assassins they do meet the medical researcher who created the virus. In her, I’m disappointed. She goes from intelligent scientists to needy weak manga-girl in just a few pages. However by the end, the brothers learn something big and bad is waiting for them on the outside world. The art was as pretty as I figured it would be and the story is interesting. We learn a bit more about Naoto than Naoya since as the older dominate brother he does more of the talking. Naoya is much more frail all the way around. I’d be interested in the next volume.
The one thing that is a tad annoying for the non-Japanese speaker (and maybe for those who are, since it’s annoying in English when author’s do this), is that the brother’s names are nearly identical. Naoto and Naoya Kirihara are brothers with psi abilities. Naoto, the older of the two, seems to have PK while Naoya reads minds and sees the future. This develops very earlier on and their parents turn them over to an institute run by Mikurya. We don’t get to see much of this place.
The story picks up when the brothers are older and they manage to escape. Mostly they just want to try and live a normal life. How they plan to do this the reader has no idea. One assumes being raised away from humanity, they aren’t just going to get jobs and blend back in. That point is moot however as Kamiya, a well known psychic foresees the end of humanity when a virus escapes from a lab and mutates and that somehow the brothers are involved.
Kamiya has a way of manipulating his fans to get them to act on his wishes, such as to do away with the Kirihara brothers. While the brothers try to dodge assassins they do meet the medical researcher who created the virus. In her, I’m disappointed. She goes from intelligent scientists to needy weak manga-girl in just a few pages. However by the end, the brothers learn something big and bad is waiting for them on the outside world. The art was as pretty as I figured it would be and the story is interesting. We learn a bit more about Naoto than Naoya since as the older dominate brother he does more of the talking. Naoya is much more frail all the way around. I’d be interested in the next volume.