I Am a Hero

[d0v]

I can now understand how an award-winning manga has such a relatively-low user score. I honestly want to rate it 1/10 because of how terrible the last four volumes are, but doing so would be a betrayal of how amazing the story was to that point in the same way the mangaka betrayed everyone who invested in this work before he gave them all the finger, so I won't. It's a 10/10 before that point.

Spoiler

Stop reading at the end of chapter 216 and imagine Hideo and Hiromi escaped to sea and there's an actual explanation for what's behind the zombie outbreak. The mangaka certainly didn't as he clearly hates himself and had no idea where this story was going.

 

[Doomer]

great beginning, horrible end. worth reading though you will be disappointed towards the end

 

[Zzxxccvv3]

Ah, the epilogue still disappointing man. Its not giving us any answer but give us more question. There is no way that he and the helicopter survivor is the only one who survive this Zombie Apocalypse. And also this verse like doesn't know what Army, Police, or Gouvernment is. Like there is Zero Tank, or Airplane,or Battle Ship to fight this Zombies man. I certainly think that finding crossbow is actually harder than finding a gun. The Premise about the MC is the only one who own a proper gun is pretty Dumb and doesn't make sense. So you tell me that he actually having a better surviving skill than some well trained people with better weapon?

 

[Captainsix]

Wha a nice ending

 

[echoDC06]

I really enjoyed the Manga but it sucks how there was no resolution with the Hiromi situation and and what the mc had to deal with after being doomed is depressing but overall great till the last moment the new ending is somewhat satisfying vs the old was depressing

 

[echoDC06]

The ending left me unhappy since I wanted to know more about things the author left hanging.

Same he left so many uncut threads like the heli island and Hiromi situation with no resolute ending I also what to learn about the zombies

 

[waandwe]

if the ending was planned and written very well... this manga would have been a legendary one... sucks that the author didn't gave a f*ck and let his emotions control his work...

 

[tigerstar186]

I'm convinced people calling this a masterpiece are only doing so because there aren't that many good zombie manga in existence. This manga is terribly written and completely penned with incel mindset. A series isn't mature or clever just because it has rape and murder.

People say it only gets bad at the end but halfway through the two girls decide the appropriate response to being chased by zombies is to get in the hot springs and nakedly wait for the mc who wanted to take a bath with them who is literally shooting zombies outside.

 

[Nonnom]

it ended but there's still so much things unanswered. like it was setting for a sequel to happen but that didn't arrive.

this sucks cause this was good, a masterpiece, it ended way too fast

 

[MangaMonger]

Spoiler: End

I felt bad about what happened with Hiromi...

I feel like the author forgot that Hideo's whole drive in that last arc was supposed to be try to help Hiromi. Or maybe that's a deliberate choice to show how emotionally isolated Hideo is from other people, I don't know. But it seemed dumb to thrust him into the action like that just so he could make no difference.

Let's be clear. Although people talk about him like he's a "side character", throughout the whole manga, he personally saves people time and time again. Of course, they end up eventually leaving him because the world is shitty and one's luck always runs out, but he's a hero already. In every arc, he did something that was meaningful. In the last arc, all he did was fail to accidentally kill a guy who loves him, piss off Hiromi, and (maybe? it's unclear) kill her with that last shot, and just return to living alone while treating Hiromi like she's dead.

He's a fuckup, yes, but he's still somewhat heroic. It feels like that was ditched in the last arc so that he could become a symbol of human solitude and rejection of love.

The epilogue did return things to normal. He ends up saving and raising a little girl and calls her (cutely) Hiiro AKA Hero. But it's too late for Hiromi.

On a side note, all the comments in this thread before page 4 were posted before the epilogue was scanlated. I can understand them. I think I'd be even more upset if the epilogue didn't exist.

 

[marishiten]

I'm confused as to why this is so highly rated. This manga (like many, many before and after it) comes so, so close to kissing greatness, but fumbles at 5 yard line.

Spoiler

I get that Hiro isn't supposed to really be all that sympathetic as a character. He's selfish, he's vain, he treats women as objects (he tries to cheat on his girlfriend in the early chapters), and he's overall cowardly/indecisive. But it's like the author set him up to go through an actual arc, but at the end, he's the same kind of guy he was at the beginning. He has no guilt over the women that loved and sacrificed everything for him. Yeah, the women in his life weren't all that great, but they at least tried to atone for their shortcomings (save for Harumi, yeah she wanted the other girl to die, but she's a 15 year old kid who was in love with Hiro and jealous of the other girl. Every girl around that age would feel the same). There was no conclusion between Hiro and Harumi. Someone he said he was in love with and it was clear she was in love with him. Harumi was also the only one to do something selfless for him (picking up his things in the forest). But he doesn't even care that she's gone and he doesn't even attempt to look for her. When she was picked up, he didn't know she was absorbed, so it'd stand to reason (to him) that she was still near the monster. But he doesn't even look for her. He just goes back to talking to himself. I don't even care where the virus/infection came from, because, to me, it's not about that. It's about his journey and growth (which he has none. In fact, he's regressed further). It's shown in the story that being absorbed can be reversed (Hiro was absorbed and so was Auntie) so this couldn't be done with Harumi? Wasn't she the catalyst and controller of the hive? The story doesn't even talk about this. It's like the author lost focus or sight of what made the story so good to begin with. It's so frustrating with these manga because it's SO GOOD up until the final arc, then it loses focus or the author stops caring.

I also don't understand how Hiro having a 20 gauge over/under shotgun would have made him this powerful guy. Okay, Japan has strict gun laws and most people don't have access to them, but the SDF does. They have AR's and sidearms. No one thought it would be beneficial for them to loot SDF bases/American bases/police stations/etc for their armories? They'd have access to far superior firearms than a crappy 20 gauge over/under and a single shot bolt action that doesn't even have rifling. Hiro walks past a US Navy AIRCRAFT CARRIER and doesn't even mention that those things are like floating cities that include massive amounts of armaments and weapons lockers. Yeah, they might be a hotbed for zombies, but that's one of those things you at least check out because the reward of getting into them is so freaking high. SDF's soldiers, upon being turned would have dropped their rifles. Go pick them up and use them if you can't get into the armories. With power going out, the maglocks on the armory doors would have been pretty simple to get into. Guns aren't THAT rare in Japan. Yeah, they're not as available in, say, the United States, but there are plenty floating around in Japan. Making them be almost mythical is just stupid.

Hiro also operates under the delusion that he's going to be rescued 6 months after that big monster died, but all he had to do was some quick math to realize that no help would be coming. Ever. The infection reduced the planets LARGEST CITY to a population unable to sustain itself a fraction of a fraction. If Tokyo was a baseline to go off of, every other major city on the planet would have been depleted to almost nothing, so no help would have been arriving. The population would have been lower than it was in the middle ages and it would have been likely that other countries/cities wouldn't have been able to stop their own big monster things. This is never expanded upon nor talked about.

 

[KA0LA]

This manga just proves "awards" are bullshit. Just like oscar and grammy winners, this is pure trash. Probably awarded by pedophiles too.

This WHOLE MANGA is 10% cool looking zombies and 90% simp virgin pedophilia. Only otakus and pedos would say this is decent. Insanely bad, dropped after 50 chapters while reading 1 page per second because after wasting my life reading volume 1 I realized all the talk is pointless.

AND STILL, AFTER DROPPING ON CHAPTER 50 THE VIRGIN PEDO STILL HASN'T USED HIS FUCKING GUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE SINCE CHAPTER 12 AND HE THINKS IT'S ILLEGAL TO USE A WEAPON LOL

 

[KA0LA]

I'm confused as to why this is so highly rated. This manga (like many, many before and after it) comes so, so close to kissing greatness, but fumbles at 5 yard line.

Spoiler

I get that Hiro isn't supposed to really be all that sympathetic as a character. He's selfish, he's vain, he treats women as objects (he tries to cheat on his girlfriend in the early chapters), and he's overall cowardly/indecisive. But it's like the author set him up to go through an actual arc, but at the end, he's the same kind of guy he was at the beginning. He has no guilt over the women that loved and sacrificed everything for him. Yeah, the women in his life weren't all that great, but they at least tried to atone for their shortcomings (save for Harumi, yeah she wanted the other girl to die, but she's a 15 year old kid who was in love with Hiro and jealous of the other girl. Every girl around that age would feel the same). There was no conclusion between Hiro and Harumi. Someone he said he was in love with and it was clear she was in love with him. Harumi was also the only one to do something selfless for him (picking up his things in the forest). But he doesn't even care that she's gone and he doesn't even attempt to look for her. When she was picked up, he didn't know she was absorbed, so it'd stand to reason (to him) that she was still near the monster. But he doesn't even look for her. He just goes back to talking to himself. I don't even care where the virus/infection came from, because, to me, it's not about that. It's about his journey and growth (which he has none. In fact, he's regressed further). It's shown in the story that being absorbed can be reversed (Hiro was absorbed and so was Auntie) so this couldn't be done with Harumi? Wasn't she the catalyst and controller of the hive? The story doesn't even talk about this. It's like the author lost focus or sight of what made the story so good to begin with. It's so frustrating with these manga because it's SO GOOD up until the final arc, then it loses focus or the author stops caring.

I also don't understand how Hiro having a 20 gauge over/under shotgun would have made him this powerful guy. Okay, Japan has strict gun laws and most people don't have access to them, but the SDF does. They have AR's and sidearms. No one thought it would be beneficial for them to loot SDF bases/American bases/police stations/etc for their armories? They'd have access to far superior firearms than a crappy 20 gauge over/under and a single shot bolt action that doesn't even have rifling. Hiro walks past a US Navy AIRCRAFT CARRIER and doesn't even mention that those things are like floating cities that include massive amounts of armaments and weapons lockers. Yeah, they might be a hotbed for zombies, but that's one of those things you at least check out because the reward of getting into them is so freaking high. SDF's soldiers, upon being turned would have dropped their rifles. Go pick them up and use them if you can't get into the armories. With power going out, the maglocks on the armory doors would have been pretty simple to get into. Guns aren't THAT rare in Japan. Yeah, they're not as available in, say, the United States, but there are plenty floating around in Japan. Making them be almost mythical is just stupid.

Hiro also operates under the delusion that he's going to be rescued 6 months after that big monster died, but all he had to do was some quick math to realize that no help would be coming. Ever. The infection reduced the planets LARGEST CITY to a population unable to sustain itself a fraction of a fraction. If Tokyo was a baseline to go off of, every other major city on the planet would have been depleted to almost nothing, so no help would have been arriving. The population would have been lower than it was in the middle ages and it would have been likely that other countries/cities wouldn't have been able to stop their own big monster things. This is never expanded upon nor talked about.

The rating is because pedos give awards. But the excuse they use is "good build up, good story, scary, disturbing"... even though it's ink on paper, people dare say drawings are scary and disturbing lol

Only disturbing thing is how free the mangakas are to tell everybody they are perverted pedophiles.

 

[KA0LA]

it ended but there's still so much things unanswered. like it was setting for a sequel to happen but that didn't arrive.

this sucks cause this was good, a masterpiece, it ended way too fast

LOL "masterpiece" "ended too fast". I read 3 volumes of absolutely nothing but virginity and pedophilia. One zombie drawing per volume and nothing relevant in it. This is just like Humunculus: Focused on cool drawings with absolutely no story to be told. Just sell your drawings to a museum art event and keep the pedophilia to yourself. The only good point in this manga is that it was completed. Something that is insanely rare these days with the unprofessional and greedy mangakas and the otakus who accept anything, even 9 year hiatus like Vagabond fans.

 

[Eeliejun]

Tbh, dropped it after ch65... Don't get why people like this... The biggest problem to me is that I feel like the characters and people are acting nonsensical. A perfect example is that when a guy tears a woman her head off and the police guy is like sir please show me some ID. I don't know they all act weird and the story is weirdly told for most parts.

I just don't see what people see in this. I am not expecting an amazing mc but from the pussy song to seeing things to all the fucking incel talk. Like it feels insane to me.

Maybe it is me and this story is not for me but fuck will not get it.

 

[gigaloser]

This shit was great! I don't read that often, but I loved this. Definitely a must read.

 

[BigDogMMA]

huh ... that was kinda shitty ! not just the end but the whole thing felt sub-par

 

[VenomSnake]

The beginning is great but when the story is reaching its ending, i feel like the man who write and draw the manga isn't the same as the guy when who started it. It feel like " Nothing matter anymore! "

 

[Sichiruka]

Hmmmm idk about what other think about this manga, i only see a couple people hate it while a lot of them love it, the art is good it has unique and ominous feel, about the story honestly i don't know, maybe because i doesn't like how fuckin slow the people on this manga sense some danger and run their fuckin instinct, the government doesn't even do any preventive measure about "biting act" Happen within their country, we got fuckin 5 days to check what's going on with the victims, but they doesn't even do anything just let them into general Hospital and never even broadcasting preventive measure for the citizens so they don't go outside because of "pandemic".


Sorry but i still got a lot of things that are strange to me, how in the fuckin world everyone doing nothing when there's someone completely insane with a broken neck or broken limbs biting people off but just treat it as an insane person, even you don't know what is a "zombie" Is you should at least act and avoid danger by running or hiding.


This might be strange but i admit that some of the scene is weirdly natural or might be happen in real life, like the reaction of that farmers when attacked by his family or a daughter get attacked by her mother, maybe because of psychological trauma and uncertainty of what happening in front of their eyes they will act like that, but still if it happen within a mass of people you should know or at least run from it.


But still i respect the author as they want to tell a story from a perspective of a schizophrenic middle age man so the whole incident might be within his "imagination" And make it as mysterious as possible.

This is all just my rant about my opinion about the manga, for me it isn't in my range, it completely fall after 30-ish chapters, the slow pace, the reaction of the mass, the survival instinct and about the relationship with that kid.


I'll give this 6/10 for overall
Only the art that make it good enough to earn 6/10 for me.

Once again this is personal opinion.

 

[CMGoncalves]

While I understand what happen to the author, the last third of the manga was not only unexpected but such a letdown in terms of character development for the MCs

The epilogue fixed something's, but there's too much damage to fix it

I'm not even mad with the more absurd/sci-fi aspect that was building up but went nowhere ...