Nine Peaks

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Here's a quite early review about what could be a pretty solid delinquent manga in the future.

Right from the start you obviously notice the similarities with tokyo revengers but it's not a problem at all, even though it has the same themes, it explores them really differently.
With still only 28 chapters read we can already feel where it's headed and it's great, we're not lost in an overly complex setting or anything, it's laid-back so you just have to go with the story and everything flows perfectly.

The art is great, not the best you will ever see but definitely pleasing, the designs of each character, ... even the less important ones, are significant enough to not feel lost in scenes where a lot of things are happening.

I'm really eager to see what will be the future of this manga as I think it can become quite something.

Nine peaks is a manga that not a lot of people know about, with a story as good as it is I feel like it deserves to be way more popular.

Nine peaks is a delinquent manga about the main character going back in time. The story shows many different perspectives from every character making you love everyone and understand where their coming from.

In the manga there's a lot of action but even if there was no fighting it would still be peak, the mangaka is an amazing story teller and plays everything out perfectly. you even tend to appreciate the slice of life moments, ... it has a mixture of everything and even made me emotional believe it or not.

It has an amazing plot twist noone would ever see coming. The art isn't overly detailed but just perfect for it's story, there's a lot of cool characters and unique components to the story that you don't see in alot of manga like the use of tanka.

This automatically became one of my top favorite manga. If you like just even the art style I 100% recommend checking out tetsuhiro hirakawas other works which are also amazing like clover, and crows zero 2.

Reading tokyo revengers and then coming to this one, the difference is enormous. The time plot tokyo revengers so carefully crafted at the start fell off at about the middle of the manga. I can't say it won't also happen to this, but one thing is certain, Nine peaks is the superior story.

I tried to like tokyo revengers, I really did, but there were oh sooo many issues, you simply can't overlook them. The teenagers in it acted like generic shounen sociopaths with the main villain the mastermind a cliche "I got you" mastermind. It based itself on the cool premise and mystery, both of ... which trailed downwards with every new reveal. The tipping point in quality was after the mc became a gangster irl.
The conflicts were all solved strangely too...
The MC is a generic shounen crybaby like deku from mha, and he solves everything by tanking hits, crying and inspiring others. This is a gimmick he never stops using, before being powered up in a bs fight at the end of the manga, and that horrid ending....

Anyhow, this is not a review of tokyo revengers, but it is important to note how different nine peaks is despite the borrowed half-premise.

I'll call the mc goku because I can't remember Japanese names. The tokyo revengers MC shall be TRMC.
Goku is the exact opposite to TRMC. He is too cold, detached to the world, as oppose to how TRMC is a pathetic loser both in the present and past.
Goku is not cold in an edgy way, it makes perfect narrative sense. He has a lack of both maternal and paternal love, the only way he could end up is an outsider, choosing to be one, or a man desperate for attention.

Goku is a loner, but in a way that he doesn't feel like he can trust people, his former friends using his name to get money from students, classic delinquents.

This in no way represents him after the time travel. He starts to learn to appreciate his father and make friends he can trust.

His rare crying made out of remembering his youth are much more nuanced than anytime TRMC does his "trademark". TRMC does it so often it loses all meaning.

Even more important is that the Author had the balls to let Goku fight, and even be good at it. I will never understand the idea that some would prefer a pathetic MC who only wins by being saved by other people.

The spotlight is also not stolen by him from his father. Goku is not inspiring, for he never knew something like that.






I fully recommend Nine peaks and Tetsuhiro Hirakawa's other works like Clover and Crows Zero 2, he is a master at delinquent manga.