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STORY: 8

Meet Hyaku, an angry girl searching for her identity. Follow her crashing with a politically unstable world divided between Humans and Creechs.
Creechs are synthetic creatures whose place in society is uncertain, but no spoilers here. The story is actually Atsushi Kaneko’s modern take on the manga Dororo by Osamu Tezuka.

Swift and nervous with 3 volumes, there is zero feeling of the usual pressures or annoyances of weekly publication. Instead, we are completely taken for a movie-like experience that is perfectly executed. Did you know that the author Atsushi Kaneko actually does have directing experience?


ART: 9

Clean, bold, framed like cinema. The rock aesthetics and ... strong US-comics inspiration of Atsushi Kaneko are mixed here in a soviet futuristic dystopia and it’s gorgeous.


POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 7

The madness of man, the folly of science, the horror of war, the crimes of the wealthy, are subtly part of the story.
While individual fights at the forefront, we see interesting collaborations within different factions and even an uprising in the background!


FEMINISM: 7

Hyaku is a fantastic female character (while it was a male in the original story), she is powerful but not invulnerable, and she learns and grows along the manga. Bonus points for her being not sexualized even once!


CONCLUSION: 8

Great storytelling and art that shows manga does not need to always repeat the same cliches? Yes it’s here, thank you.