Biomega

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Biomega is depressing and distressing. The most part of characters are without exspression and few talk. The edifices is very elaborated and dominate the landscape. In this view human aberration fight for change the world.
I love the style of the author Tsutomu Nihei. The design of Biomega is detailed, with gigantic structure that dominate the protagonist Zoichi Kanoe(but is same to Killy!). Is a artificial human, and search Ion Green a immortal human, for prevent the diffusion of the virus N5S as transform the human in zombi(call Drone in the manga).
Together with Knights of Sydonia this is the better manga of Tsutomu Nihei.

tl;dr: A manga that’s mostly just really boring with a plot that makes little sense.

Biomega is a manga that largely just doesn’t work. The plot is the tried and true plot line that involves an Earth that is essentially undergoing a virus induced zombie apocalypse where the protagonist is part of a group searching for those immune to the virus in order to protect them in order to preserve humanity, with another faction basically trying to use the ongoing apocalypse to reshape the world and humanity to their purposes. However, it’s told really badly in a really scattershot manner that makes it really hard to ... follow and make sense of.

The characters can be interesting and cool at times. However, due to how hard the plot is to follow, it makes hard to really follow along with the characters too. On top of that, the manga doesn’t even seem to even attempt to give characters background, properly flesh out their motivations, or anything like that would help the reader get invested in them. Thus, it’s really hard to care about any of them much at all beyond some passing feeling that arise in the moment due to them seeming cool or cute at the time. The world isn’t really interesting either for the most part. Half of the manga basically just involves a pretty typical zombie apocalypse type scenario with some major organization controlling things in the background. In the other half the world changes tremendously into something more interesting, but it’s a really bizarre world and the manga doesn’t really attempt to explain it at all so it doesn’t seem to add any value.

The art isn’t that great in terms of quality but in terms of style it can be really cool at times and I also think character designs have improved noticeably compared to Blame. However, the paneling in the manga is ridiculously slow with more than half the panels having no purpose whatsoever, so it largely blurs together and starts feeling really repetitive which greatly diminishes how enjoyable the art can be. As a result of all this, the manga basically feels like an incredibly slow crawl that’s completely pointless, resulting in it having valleys that are sleep inducingly dull and peaks that are only somewhat decent.

Around the halfway point, any pretense of coherent storytelling is abandoned in favor of mindless shootouts and random plot developments until it just sort of ends. Things happen, sci-fi jargon is dumped on you, explosions, then a motorcycle ride through a cool vista. Once or twice a woman takes her clothes of to see if you're really still listening. Characters seemingly die, pop in and out of the story, gain motivations on a whim. And it's all so paper thin and meaningless that you never really care about any of it.

What I liked about it:
- It had pretty art
- The fights looked cool even ... if nonsensical
- It was only 6 volumes

Overall, a disappointingly amateurish waste of time. You would probably get an equal emotional response by reading the synopsis.