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This is gonna be a be a pretty quick review, so I appologize if the structure of this review seems kinda neglected.

As a fan of the original Gunnm, I was extremely disapointed with Last Order. Before I continue, I need to mention that I have only read the first 4 volumes before droping it.

Now why don't I like Gunnm Last Order? Well there are a lot of reasons. First of all, the art got from great to "meh" (especially the character designs), and it started to look like it was focussing too much on the world building (the setting, by the way, was very uninterresting ... compared to the one of the original series) and neglecting characters. The Gally of the original series, the one that became my favorite manga/anime female character, has changed, and not in a good way. She became bland and boring in Last Order, and none of the other characters catch my interest. Philosophical themes (which used to be a strong point of the first series, with the characters), when they are present, are now pretty badly written and incoherent, and the fights have no emotion, they seem to be all about characters explaining in several pages the science behind their attacks, which I find boring after a while.

Which is why I dropped it after forcing myself to read the first 4 volumes. I find it really sad, because the original Gunnm was such a great manga, and I strongly recommand it if you like cyberpunk and post-apocaliptic stories. But I just can't recommand Last Order.