After God

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Japanese: アフターゴッド

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Aug 10, 2021 to ?

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Serialization: MangaONE

Authors: Eno, Sumi (Story & Art)

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Desperate for answers about her friend's disappearance, Waka breaches the Tokyo danger zone in search of clues. Instead, she finds Tokinaga, a researcher with the Anti-God Scientific Research Institute. While Waka tries to decide if she should trust Tokinaga, he quickly realizes Waka is hiding a dangerous secret of her own—one that may just be the key to killing off the gods once and for all.

(Source: VIZ Media)

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After God has been published digitally in English through Comikey since February 8, 2022. The volumes have been published by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint since November 19, 2024.

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Kamikura, Waka

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Tokinaga, Sachiyuki

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Obikawa, Kiyoshi

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Minami, Akio

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Uzuki, Yon

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Kozuru, Nayuu

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Tatsuno, Yoriko

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Nyababa

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Aug 19, 2023

rosewoof

Recommended

Preliminary (22/? eps)

I'll try to make this review spoiler free. this is my first review, Please be patient.
I wrote this review when 22 chapters were out.

World building and setting
Okay, Let's start with the setting and the world building, It's
extremely unique. It is pretty much like the synopsis suggests, Creatures called "gods" have infested tokyo, the area where "gods" are labelled as danger zones. If "gods" make eye contact with you, your basically dead, thats why everybody wears masks. The manga does a good job at conveying urgency and it has great action scenes too. The "Light-hearted" moments are very nicely conveyed too, they dont have ...

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Nov 7, 2022

Belaris

Recommended

Preliminary (30/? eps)

This is absolutely one of the best stories I've read so far.

Fights are interesting, although not overly abundant, but the philosophy about life and humans, societies and struggles, is over the top good.

The most infectious thing in the world is an idea, and idea is portrayed by humans, therefore humans must be eradicated or submitted to (This is mine, not from manga)

Everyone who comes across this manga should read it, it's a masterful storytelling, art design is brilliant and aside from mostly being black and white, when it is portraying the heaviness of the moment it starts mixing in the colors, which gives you an ...

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Mar 8, 2025

ShekelShoveler

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Preliminary (68/? eps)

I'm very conflicted about After God. If I were to sum up the manga in a single word, it would be 'inconsistent'. I bounced off of it the first time I tried to read it, but I'm glad I came back to it.
The story is about two characters: Waka and Tokinaga. Tokinaga is a researcher at the institute created to search for ways to combat world-shatteringly powerful beings called Gods which have invaded Japan, and Waka is a young girl with unique and unusual abilities.

Starting with what I can uncontroversially praise, the art is absolutely gorgeous. The visuals are overall an incredibly high ... quality. weaving symbolism into the panels that fits thematically with the subject of religion and gods. One of the very nice elements is the way it manages to weave the pages and panels with creative borders that almost make it look like a reaaally fucked up Shoujo manga.
The other thing about the visuals that deserves praise is the shadows, yes, but more importantly the colouration. Not many manga regularly use colour, and I'm very thankful After God does. Actually, the first time it did was when I realised I loved it. Initially.

The problems really begin with the story and writing. After God is very confusingly written, at least to me. That was actually why I couldn't quite get invested the first time I tried reading it. It has a tendency to try and create intrigue with one big, shocking moment, and then snapping back in time to give context around the event, or reversing course in some way. Tokinaga's conversations with a character called Alula are the best example of this to me. Very difficult to track.

On the positive side of the writing, it can be quite funny. There's quite a bit of humour that doesn't land, but a surprising amount that did for me.

The writing is also the biggest, but not only, source of inconsistency. At the beginning of the story, it seems like it might be an action oriented manga. I think there might be 3 fight scenes in the whole manga, so that doesn't pan out. Next, it seems like Waka is the main character, until in more recent chapters it hard pivots into focusing on Tokinaga, with Waka barely showing up. Between all of these, there were a lot of parts of the story I really liked and a lot that began to lose my interest.

In summary, After God is difficult to recommend. Some parts of the manga are a minimum of a 9, some parts were maybe a 6. In spite of the world-class art, the story's insistence on wiithholding information from the reader hurts the experience. I would probably recommend it if you are interested in a very dense read, but not otherwise.

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