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Peak comic in the genere of modern tech vs monsters.
Kaijuu Jieitai
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They are 120% percent involved in this already. Im wondering why are Russians and Chinese not making a full blown party in this whole mess.
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big thanks to goldscale for picking this up. 10 chapters in a week! someone's on a roll.
currently 65 chapters have been drawn and it isnt looking like it's getting any better.
currently 65 chapters have been drawn and it isnt looking like it's getting any better.
Fed-Kun's army
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This is what happen when we have kaijuu without Ultraman, the drama nice. The battle so desperate in every chapter making it feels really like surviving the calamity
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The JSDF/jingoistic propaganda is there, but this manga is such a good time. VERY long chapters (~50-80pg on average) with steady pacing and thrilling action. the art is also fantastic and i love the monster designs. many thanks to all of the translation groups/individuals involved with bringing this series to english-reading audiences!!
moral of the story: the real kaiju we destroyed were the inter-organizational politics and agendas we kept trying to push along the way
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So far (ch.48), this manga really leaves to be desired. Disclaimer : not a big kaijuu manga reader.
The premise is interesting, fighting kaijuus without superheroes, only military technology. Naturally, many secondary & background characters are shown to evoke the large-scale coordination required to face these disasters. Each scenario is viewed from a plethora of different angles that gives the story depth. Lots of text, which is good for depicting action in detail, though the long army dialogues shouting various commands can get tedious sometimes.
But that's it for the good points imo. Sure the action is always heavily rationalized to look realistic, but the tension falls off once the rythm starts to set in : monster emerges from deep ocean, panic, mobilize army, use new technology, shoot the monster, eventually kill it, rinse and repeat. No big tension, mostly predictable outcomes, only the action itself remains (and whatever new element gets introduced).
Graphically too, this oscillates between breath-taking details for large panels, and many cheap blank background for any close-up. In fact, many of the close-up scenes are weird to follow, like from breaking the 180° rule. Chara design is just like in Btooom! (same author), thick ink outlines and stiff facial expressions. Combined with little effects, movement is often difficult to infer between panels.
Final point is that the author shows clear bias throughout the manga in order to push the story forward. Somehow Konoe's friends are all at important positions to support her, prime minister knows her, background characters redeem themselves through Konoe's interventions,...
It's kinda manicheist, kinda mary sue-ish, kinda nationalist, hard to tell which, but it's definitely trying to force empathy on one side only, and a drag to read.
Overall this manga is fine if you don't read too much into the details and just wanna see big bad monsters duke it out against an army.
[FTR going blind into this manga, I thought the "Task Force for Paranormal Disaster Management" was going to be much more "Paranormal". So far there's just one very minor instance (Yamato's ability), kinda disappointed on that.]
The premise is interesting, fighting kaijuus without superheroes, only military technology. Naturally, many secondary & background characters are shown to evoke the large-scale coordination required to face these disasters. Each scenario is viewed from a plethora of different angles that gives the story depth. Lots of text, which is good for depicting action in detail, though the long army dialogues shouting various commands can get tedious sometimes.
But that's it for the good points imo. Sure the action is always heavily rationalized to look realistic, but the tension falls off once the rythm starts to set in : monster emerges from deep ocean, panic, mobilize army, use new technology, shoot the monster, eventually kill it, rinse and repeat. No big tension, mostly predictable outcomes, only the action itself remains (and whatever new element gets introduced).
Graphically too, this oscillates between breath-taking details for large panels, and many cheap blank background for any close-up. In fact, many of the close-up scenes are weird to follow, like from breaking the 180° rule. Chara design is just like in Btooom! (same author), thick ink outlines and stiff facial expressions. Combined with little effects, movement is often difficult to infer between panels.
Final point is that the author shows clear bias throughout the manga in order to push the story forward. Somehow Konoe's friends are all at important positions to support her, prime minister knows her, background characters redeem themselves through Konoe's interventions,...
...Konoe alone goes train with special American forces only for having faced monsters and not other experienced officers, Japan depicted as hardworking and ethical vs China's opportunism and USA's political maneuvers and coverups as if other countries don't already collaborate on natural disasters worldwide, no secondary named character deaths, Yamato's detection ability is a poorly disguised deus-ex-machina
It's kinda manicheist, kinda mary sue-ish, kinda nationalist, hard to tell which, but it's definitely trying to force empathy on one side only, and a drag to read.
Overall this manga is fine if you don't read too much into the details and just wanna see big bad monsters duke it out against an army.
[FTR going blind into this manga, I thought the "Task Force for Paranormal Disaster Management" was going to be much more "Paranormal". So far there's just one very minor instance (Yamato's ability), kinda disappointed on that.]
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