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divineblkpearl's Reviews (732)
4.7/5
**light spoilers? below**
I was really surprised how much I really liked this manga considering that I read much more josei manga nowadays. This one is for the science fiction genre lovers out there. The world has changed, strange holes or portals shale up Japan and bring terrifying monsters. BORDER is an organization that has brought order by battling these creatures, safeguarding places they appear and prepping the surrounding areas for evacuation drills and shelters. (AND *gasp* they're all young people! teenagers so far! ) Osamu is a seemingly plain low level BORDER trainee who is also a highschool student who is wallflowering his life away but secretly doing his Border work. Yuma is the weird new kid who is a shorty and who keeps us laughing throughout the entire volume with his innocent but bizarre musings. (All his expressions are to die for. His grins his duck faces, it's all legit)
Osamu and Yuma work so great together: Osamu a quiet, easy to fade into the background character who no one takes seriously yet whose heart is in the right place and wants to protect people. Yuma, who is revealed to be a "neighbor" brings the laughs as he is masquerading as an ordinary student who is still learning social norms and is as cheerful yet scarily insightful as he can be.
Yuma may come from he other side yet he but he hints that not all neighbors are bad in the way they are presented and portrayed by the media and those humans who fight them--in fact, his kind resemble humans in more ways than most and the monsters that attack Japan are perhaps some kind of abnormal breed or some nefarious creation. This first volume gives us Yuma and Osamu working together to not just save lives but to hide Yuma amongst the crowd: Osamu sees him as powerful but not dangerous in wanting to harm people.
Yuma sees Osamu as weak but still honorable by being duty bound and willing to accept responsibility for his mistakes which could have serious repercussions. Osamu is also someone who Yuma finds who won't run from accountability. It is an interesting pair up and the author manages to weave it all with themes some commentary on war, propaganda and just knowing, or not putting a face to the folks on the other side. Like I said, this one surprised me. I'll definitely read the next volume.
**light spoilers? below**
I was really surprised how much I really liked this manga considering that I read much more josei manga nowadays. This one is for the science fiction genre lovers out there. The world has changed, strange holes or portals shale up Japan and bring terrifying monsters. BORDER is an organization that has brought order by battling these creatures, safeguarding places they appear and prepping the surrounding areas for evacuation drills and shelters. (AND *gasp* they're all young people! teenagers so far! ) Osamu is a seemingly plain low level BORDER trainee who is also a highschool student who is wallflowering his life away but secretly doing his Border work. Yuma is the weird new kid who is a shorty and who keeps us laughing throughout the entire volume with his innocent but bizarre musings. (All his expressions are to die for. His grins his duck faces, it's all legit)
Osamu and Yuma work so great together: Osamu a quiet, easy to fade into the background character who no one takes seriously yet whose heart is in the right place and wants to protect people. Yuma, who is revealed to be a "neighbor" brings the laughs as he is masquerading as an ordinary student who is still learning social norms and is as cheerful yet scarily insightful as he can be.
Yuma may come from he other side yet he but he hints that not all neighbors are bad in the way they are presented and portrayed by the media and those humans who fight them--in fact, his kind resemble humans in more ways than most and the monsters that attack Japan are perhaps some kind of abnormal breed or some nefarious creation. This first volume gives us Yuma and Osamu working together to not just save lives but to hide Yuma amongst the crowd: Osamu sees him as powerful but not dangerous in wanting to harm people.
Yuma sees Osamu as weak but still honorable by being duty bound and willing to accept responsibility for his mistakes which could have serious repercussions. Osamu is also someone who Yuma finds who won't run from accountability. It is an interesting pair up and the author manages to weave it all with themes some commentary on war, propaganda and just knowing, or not putting a face to the folks on the other side. Like I said, this one surprised me. I'll definitely read the next volume.
