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jkw7072 's review for:
Choujin X vol. 1
by Sui Ishida
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ARC provided by NetGalley.
This new manga put out by the same creators of Tokyo Ghoul definitely give up the same creepy, weird vibes that TG does. The story is centered around a student, Tokio, who is best friends with an all star athlete, student, overall 10/10 guy named Azuma. One day the two are trying to help someone when they find out that the person doing the harm is actually a human hybrid monster thing?? Not quite sure how this all works as not too much information has been revealed yet but the kids end up taking the two vials that the villain had with him and shooting themselves up with this liquid that will turn them into this hybrid, a choujin.
Turns out Azuma gets off with no changes but Tokios face turns into one of a vulture.
The rest of the manga is tokio trying to figure out how to live like this and all the while having others come find him (probably the bad guys) to see if he is worth keeping around.
I think the premise is interesting and our main character is learning to not rely on Azuma and try to do his own thing. It seems like it could be a really fun adventure manga but I still get stuck on mangas representation of female characters. 1) is a kid who is a badass but we haven’t gotten much of her just yet (she did not have a profile at the end of the issue like most other characters so I guess she wasn’t important enough even though she saved tokios life…) 2) one of our villains in the issue is a woman who is literally wearing two straps of clothing - which yes all for if that’s the nightclub vibe we are going for but they are at a zoo and it’s literally only there to woo the male readers. Like hello what. At least she has a a character profile at the end of the manga! That lists her bra cup size. But guess what??? I have no idea what the penis size of the male characters are because wow that isn’t important to the plot.
So yeah overall the story could be good but dear god in our year 2022 can we PLEASE get good female representation in manga??? Please????
I am iffy about getting it for my school mostly because I haven’t found the age rating on it yet. TBD. It could have been about 3.5 stars but the female rep makes me so mad that I’m putting it as 2.5.
This new manga put out by the same creators of Tokyo Ghoul definitely give up the same creepy, weird vibes that TG does. The story is centered around a student, Tokio, who is best friends with an all star athlete, student, overall 10/10 guy named Azuma. One day the two are trying to help someone when they find out that the person doing the harm is actually a human hybrid monster thing?? Not quite sure how this all works as not too much information has been revealed yet but the kids end up taking the two vials that the villain had with him and shooting themselves up with this liquid that will turn them into this hybrid, a choujin.
Turns out Azuma gets off with no changes but Tokios face turns into one of a vulture.
The rest of the manga is tokio trying to figure out how to live like this and all the while having others come find him (probably the bad guys) to see if he is worth keeping around.
I think the premise is interesting and our main character is learning to not rely on Azuma and try to do his own thing. It seems like it could be a really fun adventure manga but I still get stuck on mangas representation of female characters. 1) is a kid who is a badass but we haven’t gotten much of her just yet (she did not have a profile at the end of the issue like most other characters so I guess she wasn’t important enough even though she saved tokios life…) 2) one of our villains in the issue is a woman who is literally wearing two straps of clothing - which yes all for if that’s the nightclub vibe we are going for but they are at a zoo and it’s literally only there to woo the male readers. Like hello what. At least she has a a character profile at the end of the manga! That lists her bra cup size. But guess what??? I have no idea what the penis size of the male characters are because wow that isn’t important to the plot.
So yeah overall the story could be good but dear god in our year 2022 can we PLEASE get good female representation in manga??? Please????
I am iffy about getting it for my school mostly because I haven’t found the age rating on it yet. TBD. It could have been about 3.5 stars but the female rep makes me so mad that I’m putting it as 2.5.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Misogyny