Abara Chapter 11 Discussion

off topic said:
Does Abara connect in someway with his other manga? In Biomega the alien/infected that spread spore seems to come from Abara and Toha Heavy Industries from Biomega exist in Blame too.

Sidonia no Kishi -> Abara -> Biomega -> Noise -> Blame -> Blame^2?

kalins said:
Really this manga is nothing special another short story. Characters are not interesting and after finisthing this manga i still cant remember even a name od title hero...

kalins said:
Really this manga is nothing special another short story. Characters are not interesting and after finisthing this manga i still cant remember even a name od title hero...

Touka said:
Sadly, this seems to have gone way over the head of many readers here. If you at least try to think about it, Abara is very coherent. It's a post-apocalyptic story, set way in the future on a toxic Earth. White Gauna appear to be some sort of mutation that manifest in cycles and Black Gauna are a human-gauna hybrid that the 4th Chronicle Group created to combat the White Gauna. Denji and Nayuta were the first to become Black Gauna, but Denji managed to escape before he could be controlled by Kegen Hall, unlike Nayuta, who Keygen Hall control via a 'sync' with her sister Ayuta and the device implanted in her neck.


The Gousa Mausoleums are huge plants whose true purpose is to power time machines or some sort of teleportation device within. They were constructed by one of the earlier Chronicle Groups because of the dire and dystopian state of the planet, however, as revealed in the final chapter, humans destroyed most of the Gousa Mausoleums due to in-fighting because everyone wanted control of the spore vessels. The 4th Chronicle Group set up Kegen Hall to protect the secret of the Gousa Mausoleums and to conceal the existence of the White Gauna, who hadn't appeared for generations.

At the end of the manga, the little brick guy (who, along with the raven and the skeleton, is a remnant of the 4th Chronicle Group) leads Sakijima and Tadohomi to the spore vessel inside the remaining Gousa Mausoleum, where they are then either teleported to the future or another dimension. Denji and Nayuta, along with the White Gauna they were fighting, were also teleported, which is how they end up in space.

Out of all of Tsutomu's manga, to me, the one it has the closest connection to is Knights of Sidonia. The only thing I don't understand is the 'Forbidden Cage'. Anyway, contrary to what most are saying, there's so much content for just two volumes; the story certainly is there. Granted, the characters aren't the most developed, but Tsutomu has build such an atmospheric, involved and fascinating world throughout his work. I enjoyed Abara, suffice to say.

Sometime in the future, humans have utterly destroyed Earth's environment and have been forced to live in cities connected only by a single highway and many tubes. However, some humans mutated and became the White Gaunas, which pose a threat to mankind. A group of scientists foresaw this dystopian situation years before. In an attempt to preserve humanity's future, they created a number of time machines each powered by a nuclear plants, named as the mausoleums. Each time machine could accommodate humans and send them to a very distant future, thus ensuring the survival of the human race. They also used the collective energy from these plants to shift all the White Gaunas on Earth at that time to a separate dimension. The scientists eventually entrusted knowledge of all this to the 4th Eon Group (4th Chronicle Group), tasked to ensure at least a pair of humans can escape into the future.

However, humans were mutating into new White Gaunas all over the place. These White Gaunas terrified and started to consume the remaining humans. People then began to fight over the time machines and the mausoleums in desperation. Due to all the chaos, all the mausoleums were destroyed save one. The entire 4th Eon Group was wiped out, but not before they uploaded remnants of their memories and personalities onto the computers embedded in the Raven, the Skull Man and the Stick.

At this point, the Observation Bureau (Kagen House) was created to safeguard the true purpose of the Mausoleums so as to prevent further conflict.

Hundreds of years later, to counter the White Gaunas, the Observation Bureau studied the White Gaunas and engineered a human-Gauna hybrid, namely the Black Gaunas. These hybrids would have the abilities of the White Gaunas yet retain their human minds. Two children, Denji and Nayuta were used as test subjects. Nayuta was the first to be experimented upon, and a control device was implanted in her. However, before they could do the same to Denji, he escaped, killing loads of people in the process..

A few years later, Tadohomi engages Denji's help in eliminating the first White Gauna before more people are killed. Denji complies but is wounded in the process. Sakijima tracks down Tadohomi and arrests her after Denji's body is found at the scene of the aftermath of the battle with the White Gauna. At this point, Sakijima is oblivious about the Observation Bureau's existence . Meanwhile, the Observation Bureau sends Nayuta as a Black Gauna to bring Denji back to HQ by taking advantage of Denji's wounded state. The boss of the Observation Bureau feels that Black Gaunas are untrustworthy; to him, Black Gaunas are monsters akin to their White cousins. Sakijima is ordered by his bosses in the Ministry to release Tadohomi. At this point he starts becoming suspicious of the Observation Bureau and decides to dig up the truth.

Another White Gauna spawns, but this time it is able to consume many humans before the Bureau took action. At first, they simply sent a squad of humans, but when this was wiped out, they sent Nayuta to destroy the big White Gauna. Unfortunately, a disturbingly humanoid White Gauna appears and duels with Nayuta. After an epic battle, Nayuta wins a Pyrrhic victory - a few seconds after fatally stabbing the White Gauna, Nayuta falls dead. Because she is telepathically linked with her twin Ayuta, any damage sustained by Nayuta is also manifested in Ayuta.

Meanwhile, the cop Sakijima gains info regarding the 4th Chronicle Group and the Gaunas from a colleague who was sent to chat with an old man in charge of the archives. With this info in hand, Sakijima moves to Kegen Hall for a confrontation. His colleague gets shot down by a Kegen Hall security guard whom Sakijima then kills in anger. Sakijima meets Tadohomi who is trying to rescue her childhood friend Denji just as she is about to get killed by a team of Kegen Hall guys. Sakijima helps her out and they both enter the room where Denji is being held. At this point, a revived Ayuta suddenly awakes and mutates into a White Gauna. Denji fights Ayuta head on while Sakijima and Tadohomi escape on a helicopter. The successors to the 4th Chronicle Group's memories seek to activate a powerful missile weapon they believe is capable of killing the Big White Gauna if it hits the spinal cord. Ayuta, now a White Gauna, attacks them and Denji fights her off, buying the Raven and the Skull Man some time. When the missile was primed and the Big White Gauna in sight, the skull man was still hanging onto the missile, trying to attack the hostless black Gauna with the projectile, so the Raven had no choice but to fire the missile along with him in hope of taking the Big White Gauna down.

The missile hits and the Big White Gauna falls, but the nuclear reactor was already beginning to fail and the Forbidden Cage appeared because there was insufficient energy to dimensionally shift all those White Gaunas anymore. A White Gauna attacks the helicopter, which consequently crashes. The Stick and the Raven guide Tadohomi and Sakijima to the House storing the time machine. The Raven gets killed by Ayuta but Nayuta, a Black Gauna, appears in the nick of time and kills her sister. Tadohomi and Sakijima escape into the House just as an explosion seemingly destroys Nayuta. With the help of the Stick, the duo activate the time machine

Many years laters, it is shown that the rest of humanity has been obliterated either by the White Gaunas or by infighting. The world is an empty landscape and lush greenery has taken over the House's rooms. Tadohomi and Sakijima run out of the House and look up into the dark, empty sky.

And two Black Gaunas, revealed to be Denji and Nayuta, still is battling the White Gaunas, stranded in a separate dimension. (This is conveyed through the double spread pages, separate from the pages with Sakijima and Tadohomi in their original dimension).