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I really like MAD so far. In a word, it's Fujimoto-esque. The closest thing it reminds me of is Fire Punch (except the art. The closest thing that reminds me of is Chainsaw Man part 2). The basic premise is that the majority of the human race has been wiped out after aliens - which are copyright-infringingly close to just being Xenomorphs - came down in meteorites. For all intents and purposes, humanity is dead. There are no hidden cities, just disparate bands of maybe a dozen survivors trying their best to not get noticed by a single one of the aliens, because if they ... are they're dead. The protagonist is John, a normal guy trying his best to survive, when the group of survivors he's with picks up a signal and make their way towards it.

The first chapter excellently plants enough implication about the grim setting, and from the second chapter on it begins to weave a compelling mystery. But I won't spoil anything more than that. Needless to say, the characters are compelling and quirky, the story is intriguing and the comedic moments are a blend of dark and hilarious.

The art really is its biggest flaw so far, though. With a lot of visually unimpressive manga, you can at least say it has its good moments. I can't really say that with MAD. It more resembles a storyboard than anything else, and the designs for the aliens and the sci fi equipment are all very generic. I would advise going into it expecting a webcomic level of quality more than a professional manga.

Overall, the story is very compelling but the art lets it down a bit. It's the author's first serialised manga, so I expect that to get better over time. If you enjoy dark stories, apocalypses, Fujimoto manga or thrillers hearty recommend.

Interesting story, u can clearly get the influence from American cinema in the setting, from Alien to Mad Max: Fury Road.

For people familiar with post-apocalyptic and sci-fi, there isnt really something super new and mind blowing, as u can identify a lot of commom tropes in this kind of stories and its easy to get to where the plot is going, but seems to be a slow-burn story, with the major parts taking their time to start to get more "intense"

The artstyle is quite simple, but seems to be intentional to give this more "graphic-novel" vibe, with nerly no scenary and following a more "realistic" ... drawing style.

Slight spoiler warning i mention a couple things that happen in the story but its very vague but still be warned best to go blind

i don't write reviews nor have the best of grammar. but i believe people should give MAD a try. so basically MAD seems like a stereotypical alien invasion type story with the xenomorph type of Alien, but alot more powerful. the thing that's the main bad guy is the humans (so far in the story) like our main character john gets saved by what we know one of the last government in the world or something. and now the characters wow ... they are quite interesting they kinda remind me of Fujimoto (guy that made Chainsaw man and Fire punch to name few).
the characters are quite random and Very interesting you might get very attached to them. Examples on how intriguing the characters are like at first you see this guy that acts like the good guy but bad and i know its a used trope but the thing that makes this special is with how delusional he acts like he considers alot of people his family or something like that also to not mention the amount of torture john goes through thanks to this guy.
The art is pretty good it has a rough style that matches the tone that the author perfectly, the author also is very skilled at making the faces very expressive so you can tell how they are feeling without needing lines of lines of dialogue to know how they are feeling. but my words cannot explain enough how great this Manga is just give the first 1-3 chapters a read and you'll be hooked on this manga espically if you like fujimoto's works or dark stuff.

Well anyway here i go thanks for spending 2 minutes to read my shitty review