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MangoPamda5
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I Am a Hero review
I'm going to split this into three sections, the beginning, final "arc" and the actual ending.
I think the start of this manga is handled exceptionally, the first volume can be somewhat slow as we are introduced the the MC and the first wave of characters. I would say the story only fully begins from volume 2 at which point the true zombie nature of the story is brought in. But the way in which we see the spread of the virus, from multiple perspectives and in different formats, be that message boards, the MC's view or news articles really gives a good perspective of how something like this could spread to the extent it did without much opposition in the early stages.
Some of the characters can be unpleasant but I think extreme situations can bring out bad sides in people and especially when sudden power is achieved, as is shown in the shopping mall arc, this can be exaggerated further. This worked well and gave a good range of characters and interactions that both provides tension, pushes the story further and gives new insight into the nature of the virus.
There are numerous points throughout where the story will split off from our MC and we will see other characters battle the zombies in their own way and from this we can see how wide spread it is and watch the new developments of the zombies.
To summarise the first part, I think it gives a very believable account of how a zombie infection could spread throughout humanity and the various ways people would react to that.
The following may get a little spoiler ish:
From, I would say, the death of Oda, though there were certainly references before that point, the story takes a significant shift to the nature of the zombies, pushing it from simply an unknown infection and attempts to put reasoning behind its occurrence and why it effects people in the way it does. Some may not like this so much as the "survival" element gets reduced to an extent, but I do think it is an interesting idea and the interactions that occur between Hiromi and the mass brain provide interesting insight.
To me, the ending could have been handled much better. The actual conclusion was alright I feel, but I felt as though the writer forgot the objectives of the characters. For example, Hideo went to Tokyo in order to save Hiromi, but it seemed to slip his mind somewhere along the way and he his actions seemed to lose meaning really. The final few chapters felt like they had just been stuck on the end and I don't think they were necessary.
I enjoyed it on the whole, the art was very good, characters mostly believable and plot line was well thought out up until the final stages. Give it a try, but if you do I recommend getting past volume 1.
This was a bit long-winded sorry.
I think the start of this manga is handled exceptionally, the first volume can be somewhat slow as we are introduced the the MC and the first wave of characters. I would say the story only fully begins from volume 2 at which point the true zombie nature of the story is brought in. But the way in which we see the spread of the virus, from multiple perspectives and in different formats, be that message boards, the MC's view or news articles really gives a good perspective of how something like this could spread to the extent it did without much opposition in the early stages.
Some of the characters can be unpleasant but I think extreme situations can bring out bad sides in people and especially when sudden power is achieved, as is shown in the shopping mall arc, this can be exaggerated further. This worked well and gave a good range of characters and interactions that both provides tension, pushes the story further and gives new insight into the nature of the virus.
There are numerous points throughout where the story will split off from our MC and we will see other characters battle the zombies in their own way and from this we can see how wide spread it is and watch the new developments of the zombies.
To summarise the first part, I think it gives a very believable account of how a zombie infection could spread throughout humanity and the various ways people would react to that.
The following may get a little spoiler ish:
From, I would say, the death of Oda, though there were certainly references before that point, the story takes a significant shift to the nature of the zombies, pushing it from simply an unknown infection and attempts to put reasoning behind its occurrence and why it effects people in the way it does. Some may not like this so much as the "survival" element gets reduced to an extent, but I do think it is an interesting idea and the interactions that occur between Hiromi and the mass brain provide interesting insight.
To me, the ending could have been handled much better. The actual conclusion was alright I feel, but I felt as though the writer forgot the objectives of the characters. For example, Hideo went to Tokyo in order to save Hiromi, but it seemed to slip his mind somewhere along the way and he his actions seemed to lose meaning really. The final few chapters felt like they had just been stuck on the end and I don't think they were necessary.
I enjoyed it on the whole, the art was very good, characters mostly believable and plot line was well thought out up until the final stages. Give it a try, but if you do I recommend getting past volume 1.
This was a bit long-winded sorry.
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Omegabyyte10
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I Am a Hero review
I've had many strong feelings regarding I Am A Hero, ever since I picked up the first volume on a whim after seeing it for years, being recommended constantly and having it haunt library shelves while passing by. Those feelings lasted to the very end of the series, and those who have read any of I Am a Hero know how fascinating and troublesome having strong feelings about this series is. But after having some time to reflect on everything, and to think about the journey that it led myself as a reader and its characters down, I'm ultimately happy with everything, in a way
that I can say it's a remarkable piece of literature that stands out against all its peers with a deft, brutal regard that few other authors and artists are able to capture.
To begin, and put most simply, I Am A Hero is a zombie thriller. With years of the zombie trends of the west behind it, this series is a fusion of classic zombie tropes, unique and new views on what zombie fiction can be, and harnesses the best the genre has to offer while blending it with familiar manga tropes and unique Japanese sensibilities to help make a story that's truly unique amongst its contemporaries.
I Am A Hero spends the majority of its first arc with no zombies. No threats. Not much of anything really. It's all about contextualizing what normality is for our protagonist, Hideo Suzuki. He is troubled, he's a huge otaku, and he's a deeply idyllic if not a bit self-conscious soul. We learn about him, his weird mood swings and tendencies of seeing hallucinations with some sort of mental health problem similar to dissociative identity disorder, and learn about all his various relationships with his romantic partner, co-workers, and the various parts of the world that surround him in the midst of the sprawl of Tokyo.
It seems all simple, and plain, almost boring. This is intentional, a very slow burn that leads into the inevitable, unavoidable conflagration of any good zombie thriller: that literally everything is about to crumble around Suzuki. In a land of moral niceties, and politeness, and law abiding, the fabric of everything that people know as correct is going to be stripped away, and the series is going to test everyone's acceptance of the new reality versus their desire to hold on to what made Japan unique before the apocalypse. Despite this happening in a million other zombie stories throughout media, something about the setting of Japan, and the odd character dynamics of the various people the story introduces brings a new context to things that makes sure the story feels fresh.
I also would be remiss to mention the female lead Hiromi. She really brings a lot of heart and soul into the series. And while it's best to let her express herself in the narrative through her own actions and statements, the level of emotional attachment and passion her presence injects into the series is unparalleled. Despite Suzuki holding own as the central protagonist, many may argue that Hiromi is actually the star of the show from beginning to end.
When the zombies hit, I Am A Hero doesn't hold back. If what you're looking for is freaky, high-octane zombie apocalypse storytelling, this series has you covered. Zombies run at full-tilt, upping the danger factor in the scenes of actions. Zombies are also often so mindless and crazed, that they act in ways that are actively bizarre and horrifying. We might be scared to sprint non-stop for 3000 meters, because we know we'll be injured, but a zombie will run the same distance and keep going, even if it's ankles rip at the joints. Zombies also remember their past, and mumble sweet somethings in their bloodlust. There is something just downright creepy about a store-clerk zombie grumbling "ARIGATO GOZAIMASU" with a mouthful of hair and flesh. Moreover, the level of violence and gore is refreshingly beautiful if downright disturbing. Zombies don't care where or how they bite you. Your arm, your leg, sure... Your neck? Your actual face down past the eyebrow? It doesn't matter to them, you're still food, or at very least a vector for infection.
And without going any further into describing both the zombies themselves, and where the narrative takes them, I Am A Hero doesn't rest on its laurels once it gets up to speed. Every time you feel comfortable with the story, the author adds in a new complexity. Zombies will do things you didn't expect, horrific and unexpected scenes of violence will blindside you, characters will act in the most gut-wrenchingly awful ways you can imagine and yet you can perfectly imagine it as logical in the context. And as the narrative develops, it continually evolves, over and over again, until the "new world" created by the apocalypse almost begins to resemble an alien landscape from the humble origins it once came from.
Which is about the time that I need to discuss a crucial thing mention to anyone who has already read the series. No review of I Am A Hero can be complete without it, but people who haven't experienced should skip this part of the review until you have the entire experience under your belt. Skip down a few paragraphs if you want no spoilers, but...
Put simply, the ending is something else.
It's easy to have a lot of strong feelings about the ending of I Am A Hero. For everything that the series and the author were able to construct over their not-insignificant publishing time, it all seems to snap out of place at the finish line. You can barely say it limps across, so much as ekes out a crawl. And after the journey that led here, especially in the final climax with... whatever you want to say happened, in all its epicness, the finale of the series almost seems like a cop-out. I've researched a little into what happened. Apparently there are statements around the time that the author, Hanazawa, was blindsided by a serious death in his family, and it kind of destroyed his artistic output at the worst time possible. This can maybe better contextualize things for some people, at very least.
It's a truly heartbreaking resolution, however, and nobody can blame you if it leaves you with a bitter taste. It can feel cruel and mean to experience, and while there are ways you can rationalize the ending, as many others have before in their criticisms, this ending is truly one of the worst in my recent memory. It's a black mark, and if only it could be repaired, although that's almost certainly never going to happen.
This all beings said, with any criticisms that can be raised from things that should be left unmentioned til the end of this wild tale, I Am A Hero is nevertheless an immaculate read that I've come to cherish. It's a story I've thought about almost daily since I finished it; different scenes, scenarios, and moods evoked in the manga that seem to echo in my mind. This has to speak to something that the manga did far above its peers, dwarfing its competition with ease from beginning leading all the way up to the end.
You'll note that, despite me critiquing a manga, I have nary a mention about the artwork or the dialogue. It's mostly because there isn't much to say when you're looking at something that executes on its fundamentals so well. How many ways can I say that the visuals are so breathtaking that they can actively haunt you? How does one express the raw beauty in loneliness the manga so often captures in its full-page spreads, or single frames that demand your eyes to study it while the story begs you to keep reading? How does one explain the ugly, disgusting reality of the bleak, violent world put to page, one that continually defies your expectations over what visuals you expect to see? What do you even say better than the plain yet contemplative philosophy laid out by the characters themselves? If anything is to be questioned in I Am A Hero, it is certainly not the art or dialogue.
Sure, I Am A Hero has its flaws. It really likes to pander to the otaku identity of the protagonist, leaning very heavily on the fact that many people are expected to relate to him. A lot of the jokes about Suzuki also being a licensed gun-owner in Japan or a polite individual in a polite society, while chuckle-worthy, do start to wear thin as he parrots the same lines a few times every volume. We get it, bro, there are lots of laws about guns in Japan; yes, okay Japan is a very polite, lawful society, but you don't ACTUALLY have to apologize for everything you do or report yourself to police for every crime you commit in a survival situation. The narrative can also go on tangents here and there. I do like how they further contextualize the story on a broader scale, and the tangents are NEVER boring, and always engrossing. But there were a few times where the narrative perused some new, legitimately interesting characters, but left me turning page after page hungry to know what happens to the main cast, frustrated that I wasn't getting any resolution on their condition or safety, like some bizarre, chapters-long cliffhanger.
But for the sheer ingenuity, the desolate beauty, the cruel philosophy, and the bizarre science-fiction that I Am A Hero is able to concoct, I can only come to the conclusion that I Am A Hero is so close to perfect, that the less than stellar parts are still light-years ahead of any other manga or piece of media even closely related to it. I Am A Hero shoots for the moon, and some might say it misses in its attempt, but the journey the manga will take you on still has it on a trajectory that's out of this galaxy, leaving you with the contemplative acceptance that the journey this manga takes you on is far more amazing than any destination it could have reached.
To begin, and put most simply, I Am A Hero is a zombie thriller. With years of the zombie trends of the west behind it, this series is a fusion of classic zombie tropes, unique and new views on what zombie fiction can be, and harnesses the best the genre has to offer while blending it with familiar manga tropes and unique Japanese sensibilities to help make a story that's truly unique amongst its contemporaries.
I Am A Hero spends the majority of its first arc with no zombies. No threats. Not much of anything really. It's all about contextualizing what normality is for our protagonist, Hideo Suzuki. He is troubled, he's a huge otaku, and he's a deeply idyllic if not a bit self-conscious soul. We learn about him, his weird mood swings and tendencies of seeing hallucinations with some sort of mental health problem similar to dissociative identity disorder, and learn about all his various relationships with his romantic partner, co-workers, and the various parts of the world that surround him in the midst of the sprawl of Tokyo.
It seems all simple, and plain, almost boring. This is intentional, a very slow burn that leads into the inevitable, unavoidable conflagration of any good zombie thriller: that literally everything is about to crumble around Suzuki. In a land of moral niceties, and politeness, and law abiding, the fabric of everything that people know as correct is going to be stripped away, and the series is going to test everyone's acceptance of the new reality versus their desire to hold on to what made Japan unique before the apocalypse. Despite this happening in a million other zombie stories throughout media, something about the setting of Japan, and the odd character dynamics of the various people the story introduces brings a new context to things that makes sure the story feels fresh.
I also would be remiss to mention the female lead Hiromi. She really brings a lot of heart and soul into the series. And while it's best to let her express herself in the narrative through her own actions and statements, the level of emotional attachment and passion her presence injects into the series is unparalleled. Despite Suzuki holding own as the central protagonist, many may argue that Hiromi is actually the star of the show from beginning to end.
When the zombies hit, I Am A Hero doesn't hold back. If what you're looking for is freaky, high-octane zombie apocalypse storytelling, this series has you covered. Zombies run at full-tilt, upping the danger factor in the scenes of actions. Zombies are also often so mindless and crazed, that they act in ways that are actively bizarre and horrifying. We might be scared to sprint non-stop for 3000 meters, because we know we'll be injured, but a zombie will run the same distance and keep going, even if it's ankles rip at the joints. Zombies also remember their past, and mumble sweet somethings in their bloodlust. There is something just downright creepy about a store-clerk zombie grumbling "ARIGATO GOZAIMASU" with a mouthful of hair and flesh. Moreover, the level of violence and gore is refreshingly beautiful if downright disturbing. Zombies don't care where or how they bite you. Your arm, your leg, sure... Your neck? Your actual face down past the eyebrow? It doesn't matter to them, you're still food, or at very least a vector for infection.
And without going any further into describing both the zombies themselves, and where the narrative takes them, I Am A Hero doesn't rest on its laurels once it gets up to speed. Every time you feel comfortable with the story, the author adds in a new complexity. Zombies will do things you didn't expect, horrific and unexpected scenes of violence will blindside you, characters will act in the most gut-wrenchingly awful ways you can imagine and yet you can perfectly imagine it as logical in the context. And as the narrative develops, it continually evolves, over and over again, until the "new world" created by the apocalypse almost begins to resemble an alien landscape from the humble origins it once came from.
Which is about the time that I need to discuss a crucial thing mention to anyone who has already read the series. No review of I Am A Hero can be complete without it, but people who haven't experienced should skip this part of the review until you have the entire experience under your belt. Skip down a few paragraphs if you want no spoilers, but...
Put simply, the ending is something else.
It's easy to have a lot of strong feelings about the ending of I Am A Hero. For everything that the series and the author were able to construct over their not-insignificant publishing time, it all seems to snap out of place at the finish line. You can barely say it limps across, so much as ekes out a crawl. And after the journey that led here, especially in the final climax with... whatever you want to say happened, in all its epicness, the finale of the series almost seems like a cop-out. I've researched a little into what happened. Apparently there are statements around the time that the author, Hanazawa, was blindsided by a serious death in his family, and it kind of destroyed his artistic output at the worst time possible. This can maybe better contextualize things for some people, at very least.
It's a truly heartbreaking resolution, however, and nobody can blame you if it leaves you with a bitter taste. It can feel cruel and mean to experience, and while there are ways you can rationalize the ending, as many others have before in their criticisms, this ending is truly one of the worst in my recent memory. It's a black mark, and if only it could be repaired, although that's almost certainly never going to happen.
This all beings said, with any criticisms that can be raised from things that should be left unmentioned til the end of this wild tale, I Am A Hero is nevertheless an immaculate read that I've come to cherish. It's a story I've thought about almost daily since I finished it; different scenes, scenarios, and moods evoked in the manga that seem to echo in my mind. This has to speak to something that the manga did far above its peers, dwarfing its competition with ease from beginning leading all the way up to the end.
You'll note that, despite me critiquing a manga, I have nary a mention about the artwork or the dialogue. It's mostly because there isn't much to say when you're looking at something that executes on its fundamentals so well. How many ways can I say that the visuals are so breathtaking that they can actively haunt you? How does one express the raw beauty in loneliness the manga so often captures in its full-page spreads, or single frames that demand your eyes to study it while the story begs you to keep reading? How does one explain the ugly, disgusting reality of the bleak, violent world put to page, one that continually defies your expectations over what visuals you expect to see? What do you even say better than the plain yet contemplative philosophy laid out by the characters themselves? If anything is to be questioned in I Am A Hero, it is certainly not the art or dialogue.
Sure, I Am A Hero has its flaws. It really likes to pander to the otaku identity of the protagonist, leaning very heavily on the fact that many people are expected to relate to him. A lot of the jokes about Suzuki also being a licensed gun-owner in Japan or a polite individual in a polite society, while chuckle-worthy, do start to wear thin as he parrots the same lines a few times every volume. We get it, bro, there are lots of laws about guns in Japan; yes, okay Japan is a very polite, lawful society, but you don't ACTUALLY have to apologize for everything you do or report yourself to police for every crime you commit in a survival situation. The narrative can also go on tangents here and there. I do like how they further contextualize the story on a broader scale, and the tangents are NEVER boring, and always engrossing. But there were a few times where the narrative perused some new, legitimately interesting characters, but left me turning page after page hungry to know what happens to the main cast, frustrated that I wasn't getting any resolution on their condition or safety, like some bizarre, chapters-long cliffhanger.
But for the sheer ingenuity, the desolate beauty, the cruel philosophy, and the bizarre science-fiction that I Am A Hero is able to concoct, I can only come to the conclusion that I Am A Hero is so close to perfect, that the less than stellar parts are still light-years ahead of any other manga or piece of media even closely related to it. I Am A Hero shoots for the moon, and some might say it misses in its attempt, but the journey the manga will take you on still has it on a trajectory that's out of this galaxy, leaving you with the contemplative acceptance that the journey this manga takes you on is far more amazing than any destination it could have reached.
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Silvermuffin6
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I Am a Hero review
This review is spoiler-free.
I Am a Hero is a story that I picked up a few years ago and couldn't stop reading, until the last published chapter of that time. Then I got bored of waiting and just pushed it off for a while. Usually happens with anything ongoing that I read.
It's February, 2020, years later, that I somehow came across this manga on MAL and to my surprise saw that it was completed. I decided to refresh my memory by reading it once again from the beginning and now, here I am, both relieved and disappointed that I finally reached the end of the journey.
If I could summarize my whole experience in one sentence it would be: It's an amazing story, with great characters, wonderful ideas and... a lackluster ending.
Now don't get me wrong. I understand (I think) what the author was going for, but even for realistic take of things, it still left an enormous amount of unanswered questions. It feels as if the series got dropped or the author got bored and just dumped a full-fledged piece of art to the trashcan. The last few chapters would've been absolutely perfect if there was like a volume in between them with the rest of the story.
The art started a little wonky but soon improved, the characters were given a personality that bloomed if they weren't killed off quickly (especially the main character, Suzuki Hideo) and there wasn't a case of people acting out unreasonably under a zombie story setting.
Still, many missed opportunities, hinted encounters that never actually happened, unfulfilling end to a long journey but an awesome read worth your time nonetheless. I sincerely hope that the author throws us a bone sometime in the future and gives us the answers that we deserve. I would've given this series a 9 if not for the flaws mentioned above (more like, flaw in singular).
If you're into stories with zombies, then this is for you! Be prepared though! :)
I Am a Hero is a story that I picked up a few years ago and couldn't stop reading, until the last published chapter of that time. Then I got bored of waiting and just pushed it off for a while. Usually happens with anything ongoing that I read.
It's February, 2020, years later, that I somehow came across this manga on MAL and to my surprise saw that it was completed. I decided to refresh my memory by reading it once again from the beginning and now, here I am, both relieved and disappointed that I finally reached the end of the journey.
If I could summarize my whole experience in one sentence it would be: It's an amazing story, with great characters, wonderful ideas and... a lackluster ending.
Now don't get me wrong. I understand (I think) what the author was going for, but even for realistic take of things, it still left an enormous amount of unanswered questions. It feels as if the series got dropped or the author got bored and just dumped a full-fledged piece of art to the trashcan. The last few chapters would've been absolutely perfect if there was like a volume in between them with the rest of the story.
The art started a little wonky but soon improved, the characters were given a personality that bloomed if they weren't killed off quickly (especially the main character, Suzuki Hideo) and there wasn't a case of people acting out unreasonably under a zombie story setting.
Still, many missed opportunities, hinted encounters that never actually happened, unfulfilling end to a long journey but an awesome read worth your time nonetheless. I sincerely hope that the author throws us a bone sometime in the future and gives us the answers that we deserve. I would've given this series a 9 if not for the flaws mentioned above (more like, flaw in singular).
If you're into stories with zombies, then this is for you! Be prepared though! :)
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Cherri_Blxssom2
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I Am a Hero review
The manga seemed difficult to read at first, but I think it was due to the narrative style of the author. The work takes time to present many characters very slowly, an example of this is that I remember that the zombies dont appear until after the first 5 or 10 chapters (I dont remember) since there they take the effort to present us the daily life of hideo, the protagonist. For my part I loved it and I would like to recommend that you read it if you like a zombie story focused on human relationships (similarly
to the walking dead).
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anime_manga4life15
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I Am a Hero review
It was a really nice ride, one of those where you can't stop reading and wish it went on and on, but the ending was probably one of the worst endings I've ever read.
Great portrayal of how everyday people would react to such a disaster as a zombie outbreak took place and the realism in how it would be handled was a 10/10 for me.
Great plot points and creative thinking that had you on edge while swallowing chapters, that unfortunately, were not explained or developed further.
The characters were really nice and you grew to like them and sympathize with them.
Overall a great manga with strong moments and a veil of mystery engulfing it in the whole journey. The ending was what destroyed my experience for this manga making me wonder, did the author get so sick of writing this manga that wanted to butcher it a.s.a.p?
Great portrayal of how everyday people would react to such a disaster as a zombie outbreak took place and the realism in how it would be handled was a 10/10 for me.
Great plot points and creative thinking that had you on edge while swallowing chapters, that unfortunately, were not explained or developed further.
The characters were really nice and you grew to like them and sympathize with them.
Overall a great manga with strong moments and a veil of mystery engulfing it in the whole journey. The ending was what destroyed my experience for this manga making me wonder, did the author get so sick of writing this manga that wanted to butcher it a.s.a.p?
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superspartan17713
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I Am a Hero review
Even though zombie stories hit their peak a while back, I highly recommend checking out "I am a Hero". It's quite different from anything else out there.
For starters, it's more than just a zombie story. To say anything else would be spoiling the plot, but it gets progressively weirder as it goes on. Even better, it rarely spells anything out for you, forcing the reader to notice details themselves and reach those, "Wait, what WAS that?" moments on their own.
And despite all the weirdness, everything else is wonderfully realistic, from the actions the characters take while attempting to surviving the apocalypse, to the messy relationships they foster with each other. Sure, the backgrounds are based on photographs, but the end result makes for one breathtaking page after another.
i do have to point out the slow pace, however. While I personally love the way the story meanders, it does take a while to get going... or get anywhere for that matter, and that may turn some people off. But if you're the type that enjoys the journey more than the destination, I can't recommend this manga enough.
For starters, it's more than just a zombie story. To say anything else would be spoiling the plot, but it gets progressively weirder as it goes on. Even better, it rarely spells anything out for you, forcing the reader to notice details themselves and reach those, "Wait, what WAS that?" moments on their own.
And despite all the weirdness, everything else is wonderfully realistic, from the actions the characters take while attempting to surviving the apocalypse, to the messy relationships they foster with each other. Sure, the backgrounds are based on photographs, but the end result makes for one breathtaking page after another.
i do have to point out the slow pace, however. While I personally love the way the story meanders, it does take a while to get going... or get anywhere for that matter, and that may turn some people off. But if you're the type that enjoys the journey more than the destination, I can't recommend this manga enough.
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Snowkittenz2
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I Am a Hero review
Story-Probably the best zombie manga I ever seen.The story started very slow,but it's a good things! Coz it is very detailed and it very claim to the climax it the middle ,and you will read & read ,can't stop read until to the end.The actual story is about "Hero"which is Hideo,and the zombies stuff is no the point,the whole manga is focus on Hideo, how he from a sidecharacter become a MC,so the ending is all about him and it is not bad.The mangaka is very kind enough to show us the other country situation and he had switched to others characters story.9/10
Art-The art is magnificent! It's so detailed and the mangaka using a uniq way to show us which is many pages just using his art and less diaglong.The expression of each characters is so detailed like he can draw Hideo's cringe face goodly and us readers can feel it.When reading it ,is more likely watching it,he drew the manga very slowly ,and drew every movement the characters have ,and it is like watching a epic zombie movie rather than reading a manga.The background also is very beautiful and detailed.I personally very like when he drew Hideo fired the gun,it is just so beautiful!
9/10
Characters-The characters is deginsed very good,the feelings of them is so true like the things that ppl will do when some zombie virus explosive began.Some of them are ignored it,some of it take advantages like create a new religion, some of them relieved it is a true dangerous.It is show perfectly that how can human's stupidly worse the whole situation.The anger,jealously,greedily & others ugliness emotions showed up perfectly true in the each characters.The development of the characters ,mostly is the MC Is amazing,from a properly useless person to a person that will take responsibility. And I very like how the mangaka focused on the MC ,which is the "Hero" ,a hero that nobody see,and know.9/10
Enjoyment-I very enjoy this manga,when I picked up this manga,I just addicted to it and reading it as fast as I can .I love the whole manga,I means the WHOLE,the characters, art,story,coz it is so detailed and very interesting.I knew many ppl so pissed off and don't enjoy the end of the manga coz it is like a downfall when the manga is at it climax and the mangaka don't explain many mysterious things that have been wondering at our head from the start.I also feel the ending also should not be like that,the mangaka had lefted many untold story,but again,the little is about "Hero"which is our MC ,the others things beside the MC IS NOT THE PRIORITY.How is the life of the MC after the incident?How he feel about it ?What is he doing the whole time?THAT IS THE POINT!So after thinking sometime later,I changed my mind and accepted the ending which is probably the most suitable ending for the MC and mangaka.9.5/10
Art-The art is magnificent! It's so detailed and the mangaka using a uniq way to show us which is many pages just using his art and less diaglong.The expression of each characters is so detailed like he can draw Hideo's cringe face goodly and us readers can feel it.When reading it ,is more likely watching it,he drew the manga very slowly ,and drew every movement the characters have ,and it is like watching a epic zombie movie rather than reading a manga.The background also is very beautiful and detailed.I personally very like when he drew Hideo fired the gun,it is just so beautiful!
9/10
Characters-The characters is deginsed very good,the feelings of them is so true like the things that ppl will do when some zombie virus explosive began.Some of them are ignored it,some of it take advantages like create a new religion, some of them relieved it is a true dangerous.It is show perfectly that how can human's stupidly worse the whole situation.The anger,jealously,greedily & others ugliness emotions showed up perfectly true in the each characters.The development of the characters ,mostly is the MC Is amazing,from a properly useless person to a person that will take responsibility. And I very like how the mangaka focused on the MC ,which is the "Hero" ,a hero that nobody see,and know.9/10
Enjoyment-I very enjoy this manga,when I picked up this manga,I just addicted to it and reading it as fast as I can .I love the whole manga,I means the WHOLE,the characters, art,story,coz it is so detailed and very interesting.I knew many ppl so pissed off and don't enjoy the end of the manga coz it is like a downfall when the manga is at it climax and the mangaka don't explain many mysterious things that have been wondering at our head from the start.I also feel the ending also should not be like that,the mangaka had lefted many untold story,but again,the little is about "Hero"which is our MC ,the others things beside the MC IS NOT THE PRIORITY.How is the life of the MC after the incident?How he feel about it ?What is he doing the whole time?THAT IS THE POINT!So after thinking sometime later,I changed my mind and accepted the ending which is probably the most suitable ending for the MC and mangaka.9.5/10
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thisguy20114
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I Am a Hero review
Note: I included one spoiler, because it actually relates to one of my points in the review. I gave a fair warning, so don't complain if you spoil things for yourself! You've been warned! ;)
Currently at the time of this review, I've read 34 chapters of I am a Hero (only 35 -I believe- are currently released), so this is more of a review of the first "segment", if you will, rather than the entire series.
Story - 7 (good)
In a nutshell: We have our quirky, 35-year old, perhaps mentally unstable?, main character, Hideo trying to survive a zombie outbreak. It's as simple as that! I don't want to get too into it, since I want to prevent spoilers of any kind. But I am going to warn you now; this manga is VERY slow. Nothing happens until probably ~15-20 chapters in, and these are fairly long chapters. There were several times I felt like dropping this manga, but I had heard lots of great things about it, many good reviews and praises, so I stuck with it. As slow as it is, give it time and wait til the outbreak occurs before you drop it, you may find it's worth your time.
Art - 7 (good)
It's either you love it, or you hate it. I enjoy realistic-anime styles occasionally, and I couldn't imagine this manga any other way. The images of monsters, hallucinations, and zombies can tend to be pretty darn graphic; They do their jobs extremely well! Let's just say, for those who are sensitive to graphic images or have weak stomachs, you might just sleep with your nightlight on again!
Needless to say, the artwork was the biggest payoff for me. It's what kept me from dropping this manga, because I always wanted to see what terrifying creature would turn up next.
Characters - 3 (poor)
Uuuuuuugggghh... Okay, I'm very bias on this and I know for a fact not everyone will agree with me here, but... I can't stand a single character in this manga. The only truly 'main character' is Hideo, and he's -okay-, but he tends to get on my nerves with just HOW awkward he is. To me, he just seems like a very unpleasant person to be around. (Warning: Spoilers up ahead!! Just skip down past the "END SPOILERS" line if you don't want, well, spoilers.)
---SPOILERS!!---
It really bothered me when, after his girlfriend had turned into a zombie and died, he hardly reacted at all. He apparently loved her so much, albeit getting into a fight with her right before she turned, but he didn't seem shocked, scared, devastated... nothing. It just seemed like a very underwhelming reaction for characters who are supposed to be portrayed as realistic. Yes, I know every human being reacts differently to trauma, stress, etc., but it really bothered me since he seemed very attached to her and in love. At least he cried for her once he was on the train, SEVERAL chapters later, but the initial reaction (or lack-there-of) very much bugged me.
---END SPOILERS!!!---
Otherwise, I never enjoyed or got attached to -any- character in the entire 34 chapters. They came off as completely bland to me. I might like the newest character to join Hideo in the latest chapters, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Enjoyment - 6 (fair/okay)
This is tough for me, because I genuinely like this manga aside from me not strongly liking a single character, lol. It trudged on forever it seemed, but once the conflict arose and the zombies appeared, it sucked me in and nothing could draw away my attention. As I said, the artwork for the zombies/monsters is captivating and disturbing; just the way I like it! Another aspect I loved what that there were genuinely times where I felt the uneasiness and suspense of the situation (taxi scene, anyone?). It's definitely a manga that holds my interest enough to keep me asking for more! I just gave it a fairly low score because of the first 10-20 chapters and lack of character interest.
Overall - 7 (good)
This manga is unique, to say the least, but not too bizarre either. I would recommend checking it out, you know, if you're into that sort of thang.
Currently at the time of this review, I've read 34 chapters of I am a Hero (only 35 -I believe- are currently released), so this is more of a review of the first "segment", if you will, rather than the entire series.
Story - 7 (good)
In a nutshell: We have our quirky, 35-year old, perhaps mentally unstable?, main character, Hideo trying to survive a zombie outbreak. It's as simple as that! I don't want to get too into it, since I want to prevent spoilers of any kind. But I am going to warn you now; this manga is VERY slow. Nothing happens until probably ~15-20 chapters in, and these are fairly long chapters. There were several times I felt like dropping this manga, but I had heard lots of great things about it, many good reviews and praises, so I stuck with it. As slow as it is, give it time and wait til the outbreak occurs before you drop it, you may find it's worth your time.
Art - 7 (good)
It's either you love it, or you hate it. I enjoy realistic-anime styles occasionally, and I couldn't imagine this manga any other way. The images of monsters, hallucinations, and zombies can tend to be pretty darn graphic; They do their jobs extremely well! Let's just say, for those who are sensitive to graphic images or have weak stomachs, you might just sleep with your nightlight on again!
Needless to say, the artwork was the biggest payoff for me. It's what kept me from dropping this manga, because I always wanted to see what terrifying creature would turn up next.
Characters - 3 (poor)
Uuuuuuugggghh... Okay, I'm very bias on this and I know for a fact not everyone will agree with me here, but... I can't stand a single character in this manga. The only truly 'main character' is Hideo, and he's -okay-, but he tends to get on my nerves with just HOW awkward he is. To me, he just seems like a very unpleasant person to be around. (Warning: Spoilers up ahead!! Just skip down past the "END SPOILERS" line if you don't want, well, spoilers.)
---SPOILERS!!---
It really bothered me when, after his girlfriend had turned into a zombie and died, he hardly reacted at all. He apparently loved her so much, albeit getting into a fight with her right before she turned, but he didn't seem shocked, scared, devastated... nothing. It just seemed like a very underwhelming reaction for characters who are supposed to be portrayed as realistic. Yes, I know every human being reacts differently to trauma, stress, etc., but it really bothered me since he seemed very attached to her and in love. At least he cried for her once he was on the train, SEVERAL chapters later, but the initial reaction (or lack-there-of) very much bugged me.
---END SPOILERS!!!---
Otherwise, I never enjoyed or got attached to -any- character in the entire 34 chapters. They came off as completely bland to me. I might like the newest character to join Hideo in the latest chapters, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Enjoyment - 6 (fair/okay)
This is tough for me, because I genuinely like this manga aside from me not strongly liking a single character, lol. It trudged on forever it seemed, but once the conflict arose and the zombies appeared, it sucked me in and nothing could draw away my attention. As I said, the artwork for the zombies/monsters is captivating and disturbing; just the way I like it! Another aspect I loved what that there were genuinely times where I felt the uneasiness and suspense of the situation (taxi scene, anyone?). It's definitely a manga that holds my interest enough to keep me asking for more! I just gave it a fairly low score because of the first 10-20 chapters and lack of character interest.
Overall - 7 (good)
This manga is unique, to say the least, but not too bizarre either. I would recommend checking it out, you know, if you're into that sort of thang.
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Vancomycin4
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I Am a Hero review
I Am a Hero - A Mangaka Trying to Survive in Chaos.
The invasion of zombies is one of the most repeated themes in recent years. They are in movies like "Dawn of the Dead", in games like Resident Evil, in books like "World War Z" and even comics and series with "The Walking Dead". And it was not just stories with the kind of terror that were created. We have the movie "Shaun of the Dead" which is a very entertaining comedy and even a romance between a zombie and a hot blood girl. (It's ... awesome). And our Japanese friends are not out of this. Many may have watched the famous "Highschool of The Dead", but I've never been much of a fan of it because of a large amount of fanservice of the worst quality and many bizarre situations. For example, all your college friends and perhaps your family may have died and yet the girls take showers together and measure the size of their breasts. But it's not just fanservice that Japan lives and this is shown very well with the manga - "I Am A Hero". But being frankly honest, I don't believe there is any comparison between the two works because they are completely different and develop differently, completely opposite.
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant who dreams of one day being able to have his own series in a publishing house. He demonstrates that has a great mental problem, at times he hallucinates with a boy named Yajima and also features tormenting visions, with faces and hands showing up around him. In the midst of all, he still needs to deal with his dating, which is not going through a good time thanks to the jealousy with an ex-boyfriend by his girl.
While all Hideo problems only seem to increase, something terrible starts across Japan. Sick people are entering into a kind of uncontrollable rage, attacking anyone appearing in front of them and who is attacked also end up getting infected. These patients continue to move furiously toward their prey, even if they are seriously injured. The chaos will start to spread, but Hideo is slow to realize that it is something real and no longer a hallucination of his mind.
"I Am a Hero" is a manga created by Kengo Hanazawa, currently has 10 volumes released and is still in progress since August 2009 in the magazine Big Comics Spirits, Shogakukan magazine. The story goes at a very slow pace at the beginning, which may be far from the unsuspecting readers and would have walked away if I had not known that it was a story with zombies. "I Am a Hero" only really shows his true face at the end of the first volume, on chapter 11. After this it's crazy and you end up getting stuck wondering what happens even though the pace still varies greatly between fast action scenes and still scenes of reflection. And we also have some really heavy and disturbing scenes.
The main character might be my big problem with the manga: I can not really like him at all. The author manages to make Hideo a real person, but he's so weird (sometimes crazy) that it makes me really uncomfortable and doesn't care so much about the life he had. The first few chapters were terrible for me, I just kept going just because I knew that at some point the "shit was about to go down". He sometimes irritated me, either with the song about female genitalia or with the fact that he tries to continue to follow the law even with everything going to hell.
Later we know other secondary characters that end up appearing very little. It's worth mentioning one that I really like that is Hiromi, although it often ends up having some unrealistic reactions that end up upsetting everything we had already seen and going a bit against what we witnessed in the manga as a whole.
Well, I also have to highlight the author's vision for the zombies, perhaps one of the scariest I've ever seen. They are of that type that runs and possesses physical strength above the ordinary, able to even pull half of your face with a bite. They are still able to speak a few sentences and seem to still maintain the habits of when they were still alive.
This raises an interesting question: most of the time, "experts" and "critics" often say that a good zombie story does not "deal with zombies," but rather with "humans." And it really is so in most cases, so much so that zombies mostly have no feelings, just act instinctively like animals, letting the whole plot unfold upon the psychological pressure between the living. But in the case of "I Am a Hero" the thing is different. The human characters in the stories are so strangely or emotionally unbalanced that you have no more notion if the story really focuses on them or the zombies. The author's choice to portray the "beings" with gestures and human actions ends up raising a debate about this, and only those who read (or intend) will be able to say whether this is a truth or just a theory.
Going back to the technical part, the art is amazing, we have an incredibly realistic look and with the passage of time, it becomes disturbing. Kengo Hanazawa's zombies are scary, the appearance with veins appearing on the skin, bulging, squinting eyes, and even larvae coming out of the holes even bothered me at times more than some classic movies. Other than the moments he uses whole pages alike and with slight differences to give an unbelievable sense of movement. The author who had already made a highly praised story for the development of human feelings ("Boys On The Run") seems to put everything into practice in "I Am A Hero", now with a much bigger technique. Some even believe that his manga actually is a criticism of Japanese society, something very common in some works there.
Unlike "Highschool of The Dead" that follows more to a "shounen" side with high levels of fanservice, "I Am a Hero" follows another serious and mature line. This is not to say that there is no action, the story has several moments that you read several pages in minutes and want to know soon what will happen. You will follow the survival of an aspiring mangaka, with no confidence and with a questionable sanity, in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
It was not an easy manga to read at first for me. The main character could only make me angry for being so loser and even insane, but all my effort to continue reading was rewarded. The story begins to look great after the first volume and is an excellent recommendation for lovers of the zombie genre. With the release of The Walking Dead and others, it is a great opportunity to venture into an alternative reading and quite fun and well-taken advantage of. That's the recommendation. READ IT!
Story: 10 | Art: 9 | Character: 8 | Enjoyment: 9
Score: 9/10
This review was made from the first volume omnibus, brought by Dark Horse.
The invasion of zombies is one of the most repeated themes in recent years. They are in movies like "Dawn of the Dead", in games like Resident Evil, in books like "World War Z" and even comics and series with "The Walking Dead". And it was not just stories with the kind of terror that were created. We have the movie "Shaun of the Dead" which is a very entertaining comedy and even a romance between a zombie and a hot blood girl. (It's ... awesome). And our Japanese friends are not out of this. Many may have watched the famous "Highschool of The Dead", but I've never been much of a fan of it because of a large amount of fanservice of the worst quality and many bizarre situations. For example, all your college friends and perhaps your family may have died and yet the girls take showers together and measure the size of their breasts. But it's not just fanservice that Japan lives and this is shown very well with the manga - "I Am A Hero". But being frankly honest, I don't believe there is any comparison between the two works because they are completely different and develop differently, completely opposite.
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant who dreams of one day being able to have his own series in a publishing house. He demonstrates that has a great mental problem, at times he hallucinates with a boy named Yajima and also features tormenting visions, with faces and hands showing up around him. In the midst of all, he still needs to deal with his dating, which is not going through a good time thanks to the jealousy with an ex-boyfriend by his girl.
While all Hideo problems only seem to increase, something terrible starts across Japan. Sick people are entering into a kind of uncontrollable rage, attacking anyone appearing in front of them and who is attacked also end up getting infected. These patients continue to move furiously toward their prey, even if they are seriously injured. The chaos will start to spread, but Hideo is slow to realize that it is something real and no longer a hallucination of his mind.
"I Am a Hero" is a manga created by Kengo Hanazawa, currently has 10 volumes released and is still in progress since August 2009 in the magazine Big Comics Spirits, Shogakukan magazine. The story goes at a very slow pace at the beginning, which may be far from the unsuspecting readers and would have walked away if I had not known that it was a story with zombies. "I Am a Hero" only really shows his true face at the end of the first volume, on chapter 11. After this it's crazy and you end up getting stuck wondering what happens even though the pace still varies greatly between fast action scenes and still scenes of reflection. And we also have some really heavy and disturbing scenes.
The main character might be my big problem with the manga: I can not really like him at all. The author manages to make Hideo a real person, but he's so weird (sometimes crazy) that it makes me really uncomfortable and doesn't care so much about the life he had. The first few chapters were terrible for me, I just kept going just because I knew that at some point the "shit was about to go down". He sometimes irritated me, either with the song about female genitalia or with the fact that he tries to continue to follow the law even with everything going to hell.
Later we know other secondary characters that end up appearing very little. It's worth mentioning one that I really like that is Hiromi, although it often ends up having some unrealistic reactions that end up upsetting everything we had already seen and going a bit against what we witnessed in the manga as a whole.
Well, I also have to highlight the author's vision for the zombies, perhaps one of the scariest I've ever seen. They are of that type that runs and possesses physical strength above the ordinary, able to even pull half of your face with a bite. They are still able to speak a few sentences and seem to still maintain the habits of when they were still alive.
This raises an interesting question: most of the time, "experts" and "critics" often say that a good zombie story does not "deal with zombies," but rather with "humans." And it really is so in most cases, so much so that zombies mostly have no feelings, just act instinctively like animals, letting the whole plot unfold upon the psychological pressure between the living. But in the case of "I Am a Hero" the thing is different. The human characters in the stories are so strangely or emotionally unbalanced that you have no more notion if the story really focuses on them or the zombies. The author's choice to portray the "beings" with gestures and human actions ends up raising a debate about this, and only those who read (or intend) will be able to say whether this is a truth or just a theory.
Going back to the technical part, the art is amazing, we have an incredibly realistic look and with the passage of time, it becomes disturbing. Kengo Hanazawa's zombies are scary, the appearance with veins appearing on the skin, bulging, squinting eyes, and even larvae coming out of the holes even bothered me at times more than some classic movies. Other than the moments he uses whole pages alike and with slight differences to give an unbelievable sense of movement. The author who had already made a highly praised story for the development of human feelings ("Boys On The Run") seems to put everything into practice in "I Am A Hero", now with a much bigger technique. Some even believe that his manga actually is a criticism of Japanese society, something very common in some works there.
Unlike "Highschool of The Dead" that follows more to a "shounen" side with high levels of fanservice, "I Am a Hero" follows another serious and mature line. This is not to say that there is no action, the story has several moments that you read several pages in minutes and want to know soon what will happen. You will follow the survival of an aspiring mangaka, with no confidence and with a questionable sanity, in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
It was not an easy manga to read at first for me. The main character could only make me angry for being so loser and even insane, but all my effort to continue reading was rewarded. The story begins to look great after the first volume and is an excellent recommendation for lovers of the zombie genre. With the release of The Walking Dead and others, it is a great opportunity to venture into an alternative reading and quite fun and well-taken advantage of. That's the recommendation. READ IT!
Story: 10 | Art: 9 | Character: 8 | Enjoyment: 9
Score: 9/10
This review was made from the first volume omnibus, brought by Dark Horse.
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TheMuffinOfLife8
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I Am a Hero review
Alright. This is my favourite manga of all time so far closely beating out Molester Man. So it starts off with this Mangaka, Hideo who has his own delusions and hallucinations and problems with his GF. For the starting first 10 chapters i would say? It goes very slowly while fleshing out Hideo and his problems and TBH i enjoyed it a lot because it felt real to me but i can see why a lot of people dropped the manga before it got to the juicy part. Hideo then thinks all the zombie problems are part of his delusions so he keeps trying to
convince himself its gonna be fine. Hideo carries with him a shotgun which he was suppose to go disc shooting the day the zombie outbreak happened. Hideo being a law abiding citizen and keeps his morals throughout the manga by not lending his weapon to anyone because of the strict gun laws in Japan. The progress of Hideo as a character is amazing. I can closely relate to him at the start because im a bit like him and tend to talk to myself a lot when im alone and act like a goofball.
Overall, if you enjoy a zombie manga this is the one for you. Its got plenty of everything. Action, feels, decisions and the progression of story and character is really good as it doesnt feel like it has any filler in between to keep it interesting
Overall, if you enjoy a zombie manga this is the one for you. Its got plenty of everything. Action, feels, decisions and the progression of story and character is really good as it doesnt feel like it has any filler in between to keep it interesting
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T3Deliciouz2
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I Am a Hero review
*NO Spoilers Review"
tl;dr: This is the BEST zombie manga ever written so if you enjoy the zombie subgenre I would recommend this. However, the manga has 3-4 problems with it that prevent it from being amazing. So it may be the best zombie manga, but in general it is a good (not superb) manga.
If you are a fan of The Walking Dead and Tokyo Ghoul I would recommend this manga. It starts off as a traditional Hollywood zombie movie, but about half-way becomes very animesque.
The Good:
The manga follows traditional zombie tropes, which for zombie movie lovers is great. Happily it also ADDS to zombie lore by having unique twists on zombies that I haven't seen before and that I very much enjoyed.
The way the zombies are illustrated is perfect. There is a great variety in their appearances and abilities, which makes for a more interesting read.
The Bad:
It starts off slow; it is not until about chapter 20 that a zombie shows up. To be fair, slow starts are traditional in zombie films so I didn't mind it as it is meant to show the contrast between normalcy and a zombie apocalypse.
The author of the manga unashamedly and obviously put himself as the main character - they are both manga artists and look identical. To insert yourself as the main character comes off as pretty self-serving and cheesy in its wish-fulfillment that forces me to roll my eyes.
The Ugly:
The absolute worst part of this manga is the HIGHLY problematic and implausible romantic relationships. Romance in this is so clumsily written; it makes no sense that certain characters would develop romantic feelings for each other at all. In fact it is so unrealistic that I could more readily believe in zombies running around rather than these two characters hooking up. The romantic relationships in this were so bad that it dropped my score from an 8 to a 7.
I've noticed many people comment on how terrible the ending of this was. I somewhat disagree; I think the ending itself was good, but what is terrible is that it has so many plot holes at the end! It doesn't resolve at least 3 major plot points which is inexcusable.
The main character has a highly active imagination bordering ion schizophrenia. In the first chapter you learn that him being scared triggers him to see illusions. Sounds interesting right? Maybe the manga will play with the concept of whether the zombies are even real or just a figment of his overactive imagination? Nope. As soon as the zombies show up this is a plot point that is essentially never brought up again. What was the point of including that as a characteristic for a character if it isn't even addressed for the rest of the manga? That is such clunky writing.
Conclusion:
Give this a try. Many times I considered dropping it, but every time I did the next chapter would have such an amazing twist that hooked me in to continue reading more and more.
tl;dr: This is the BEST zombie manga ever written so if you enjoy the zombie subgenre I would recommend this. However, the manga has 3-4 problems with it that prevent it from being amazing. So it may be the best zombie manga, but in general it is a good (not superb) manga.
If you are a fan of The Walking Dead and Tokyo Ghoul I would recommend this manga. It starts off as a traditional Hollywood zombie movie, but about half-way becomes very animesque.
The Good:
The manga follows traditional zombie tropes, which for zombie movie lovers is great. Happily it also ADDS to zombie lore by having unique twists on zombies that I haven't seen before and that I very much enjoyed.
The way the zombies are illustrated is perfect. There is a great variety in their appearances and abilities, which makes for a more interesting read.
The Bad:
It starts off slow; it is not until about chapter 20 that a zombie shows up. To be fair, slow starts are traditional in zombie films so I didn't mind it as it is meant to show the contrast between normalcy and a zombie apocalypse.
The author of the manga unashamedly and obviously put himself as the main character - they are both manga artists and look identical. To insert yourself as the main character comes off as pretty self-serving and cheesy in its wish-fulfillment that forces me to roll my eyes.
The Ugly:
The absolute worst part of this manga is the HIGHLY problematic and implausible romantic relationships. Romance in this is so clumsily written; it makes no sense that certain characters would develop romantic feelings for each other at all. In fact it is so unrealistic that I could more readily believe in zombies running around rather than these two characters hooking up. The romantic relationships in this were so bad that it dropped my score from an 8 to a 7.
I've noticed many people comment on how terrible the ending of this was. I somewhat disagree; I think the ending itself was good, but what is terrible is that it has so many plot holes at the end! It doesn't resolve at least 3 major plot points which is inexcusable.
The main character has a highly active imagination bordering ion schizophrenia. In the first chapter you learn that him being scared triggers him to see illusions. Sounds interesting right? Maybe the manga will play with the concept of whether the zombies are even real or just a figment of his overactive imagination? Nope. As soon as the zombies show up this is a plot point that is essentially never brought up again. What was the point of including that as a characteristic for a character if it isn't even addressed for the rest of the manga? That is such clunky writing.
Conclusion:
Give this a try. Many times I considered dropping it, but every time I did the next chapter would have such an amazing twist that hooked me in to continue reading more and more.
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0namine17
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I Am a Hero review
(I have not read the side stories that Hanazawa made) I am a Hero is slightly more interesting then good.
The reader can make assumptions of what the ZQN really are and i found that quite fun and interesting. Most of the characters are well done and feel real and its interesting to see what the characters decide to do in the situations they are put in.
The art style is great and Hanazawa made the ZQN's look terrifying and the characters are extremely realistic so you are more immersed. I love gore filled manga and I am hero has a lot of gore so if you can't read stuff with a lot of gore it's probably better not to read this.
The major problem with this manga is the ending. In my opinion it's extremely lazy and leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
If the ending was made better this could possibly have been a 9/10 but with the way the ending is it's and 8/10. If you like stuff with gore then this is a good manga to read. Even if you don't like gore that much its still a worthy read.
The reader can make assumptions of what the ZQN really are and i found that quite fun and interesting. Most of the characters are well done and feel real and its interesting to see what the characters decide to do in the situations they are put in.
The art style is great and Hanazawa made the ZQN's look terrifying and the characters are extremely realistic so you are more immersed. I love gore filled manga and I am hero has a lot of gore so if you can't read stuff with a lot of gore it's probably better not to read this.
The major problem with this manga is the ending. In my opinion it's extremely lazy and leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
If the ending was made better this could possibly have been a 9/10 but with the way the ending is it's and 8/10. If you like stuff with gore then this is a good manga to read. Even if you don't like gore that much its still a worthy read.
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TheDeedsOfMen2
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I Am a Hero review
I love a good post-apocalyptic manga... I've read the 8 volumes released so far and the mangaka is doing great capitalizing on all the potential of the story. It's a thrilling read so far.
Hideo, a manga illustrator struggling with his job and maintaining a relationship with his girlfriend, finds himself trying to stay alive in world where a virus is spreading like rapidfire and people are rabid and biting each other. A lot of the scenes were actually incredibly disturbing like the scene where all the manga illustrators go crazy. Not to mention, Hideo isn't all right in the head and has never been.
The art is really interesting too. It's like it purposefully makes everyone look ugly, maybe to show the ugly side of human nature? ...The story takes a really fascinating look at human nature. There are people that take their defensive stance, some people who go looney tunes in their survival mode, and yet others who become actual monsters in their actions. Fascinating!
I cannot wait to read more.
Hideo, a manga illustrator struggling with his job and maintaining a relationship with his girlfriend, finds himself trying to stay alive in world where a virus is spreading like rapidfire and people are rabid and biting each other. A lot of the scenes were actually incredibly disturbing like the scene where all the manga illustrators go crazy. Not to mention, Hideo isn't all right in the head and has never been.
The art is really interesting too. It's like it purposefully makes everyone look ugly, maybe to show the ugly side of human nature? ...The story takes a really fascinating look at human nature. There are people that take their defensive stance, some people who go looney tunes in their survival mode, and yet others who become actual monsters in their actions. Fascinating!
I cannot wait to read more.
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ShinXShinra3
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I Am a Hero review
The story was good at first, it had some unexpected aspects to it. I was expecting a regular zombie apocalypse survival story but there were some bizarro aspects to it.
Sadly, I think the terrible 30-ish last chapters dropped this from an overall 8-9 to a 7 for me. The last few chapters felt very rushed and nonsensical and the way the author just threw away Hiromi sucked.
The best thing about the manga was definitely the characters. Hideo was a pretty complex character and in the end he had grown in some way.
Overall I would say it's one of the best zombie mangas if that's what you're looking for, with some very unexpected surrealist and eldritch areas the story heads into every now and then. At the end the manga is brought down quite a bit by the poor handling of characters in the ending and the lack of proper closure. There was some closure but it just felt like the manga was being thrown away early.
It is understandable in the context that the author had some issues in his personal life at the time.
Sadly, I think the terrible 30-ish last chapters dropped this from an overall 8-9 to a 7 for me. The last few chapters felt very rushed and nonsensical and the way the author just threw away Hiromi sucked.
The best thing about the manga was definitely the characters. Hideo was a pretty complex character and in the end he had grown in some way.
Overall I would say it's one of the best zombie mangas if that's what you're looking for, with some very unexpected surrealist and eldritch areas the story heads into every now and then. At the end the manga is brought down quite a bit by the poor handling of characters in the ending and the lack of proper closure. There was some closure but it just felt like the manga was being thrown away early.
It is understandable in the context that the author had some issues in his personal life at the time.
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T3Deliciouz2
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I Am a Hero review
although the pace is often criticised in I Am A Hero, especially in the first and second volume, i feel like was a valuable section to build the characters personality. the build up was very necessary. the main character is likeable yet very uncool.
The zombies i feel are the best zombies i have 'encountered'. being able to move at a range of paces and have slight personalities carried on from the moment of their death. This makes them that much scarier than ordinary zombies.
the best thing about this manga is the art style- the drawing is immense, the faces are not drawn exactly like a real human but this gives them extra emotion and facial expression. the double page drawings are in real detail and occur often throughout the book. sometimes there is a page donated to the animation of a single moment/movement
overall and excellent manga, if ones looking for a less shonen/weekly published manga, this is perfect. and a work of art
The zombies i feel are the best zombies i have 'encountered'. being able to move at a range of paces and have slight personalities carried on from the moment of their death. This makes them that much scarier than ordinary zombies.
the best thing about this manga is the art style- the drawing is immense, the faces are not drawn exactly like a real human but this gives them extra emotion and facial expression. the double page drawings are in real detail and occur often throughout the book. sometimes there is a page donated to the animation of a single moment/movement
overall and excellent manga, if ones looking for a less shonen/weekly published manga, this is perfect. and a work of art
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sushiisawesome1
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I Am a Hero review
I Am a Hero started of fairly strong with great artwork and yet managed to blow it all up with its terrible ending. The plot stopped making sense at some point and by the end left too many questions unanswered; as if the author simply gave up and duct-taped something on.
Main character aside there really isn't many meaningful development (as far as I can tell) with certain events turning having minimal impact, if at all, to the plot. The random side stories that crop up doesn't alleviate this either although a bit of world building wouldn't hurt I suppose.
TL;DR: Great start, terrible end.
Main character aside there really isn't many meaningful development (as far as I can tell) with certain events turning having minimal impact, if at all, to the plot. The random side stories that crop up doesn't alleviate this either although a bit of world building wouldn't hurt I suppose.
TL;DR: Great start, terrible end.
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AnnaVk4
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I Am a Hero review
I am a hero, you can't even tell what its about by the title or even the cover and that's what i love about this manga, every page is something unexpected. I am by no means a zombie genre fan since all zombie related media today tends to be the same, I am a hero takes everything you know about zombies and redefines it by making the characters believable and really vulnerable by putting them in situations most zombie movies wouldn't even think of. This manga made me scared of zombies again the vivid detail and the art style is amazing. This is not for
people who are looking for a HOTD clone this is something very different, this is also not a kid manga either none of Hanazawa Kengo's manga is, I highly recommend this to all manga readers 17 and up :)
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McDaddyValidD6
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I Am a Hero review
I have given up on I Am a Hero.
I have given it three tries with this latest attempt having me forced myself through 50 chapters – 10x more than I typically give to any manga. There are a number of reasons why, but it boils down to an inability to connect with the characters and an incoherent story.
In regards to characters: The MC – Suzuki Hideo – is an aspiring mangaka, but his behavior and manner of speech make him seem more like an oversized manchild. He spends his time talking to a series of hallucinations he conjures in his mind which appears whenever he wants a conversation (at one time being peed on by Hideo too) and, when not talking to those hallucinations, he may do anything from posing stupidly or singing such enlightening songs as ‘The Pussy Song’.
Overall, I really detest the MC. Many of the characters act like him so, so guess how I feel about them.
About an incoherent story: Many reviewers describe the story about being a zombie apocalypse/outbreak type of story. I can’t say I agree. It is about zombie-like creatures suddenly appearing everywhere, causing chaos, and eating people, but nothing makes sense.
To begin, the ‘zombies’ look horrific and are often bending their bodies in horrible ways…yet strangely, nobody seem to recognize them as being some form of monsters. Very often, they’re treated as normal people who are just acting weird. Even as they’re biting people’s limbs off, they’re treated that way.
Furthermore, despite chaos being everywhere (even happening on TV and the JDF mobilizing), the MC somehow keeps running into people who seems 100% oblivious to what’s going on. At one point, there was a whole group of people on the train who saw that a large cloud of smoke billowing out of a city and people were being chased and killed…nobody other than the MC even cared.
Something wasn’t right. It almost feels as if the manga is a massive delusion from the MC rather than something real and/or some unwieldy social commentary/symbolism from the author. If it is the case, I had found it difficult to grasp. I mean really difficult; it took until chapter 30 before I began to get an inkling of the message the author was trying to convey. By the time I gave up on this manga, I finally started grasping the message that manga has been sending. Unfortunately, by that point, I stopped caring.
To cap my review, I think I’ve given this manga far more of a chance than I give most, but I think it has too many large weaknesses to ignore.
Overall, I think its biggest weakness (aside from what I mention above) is that the plot appears to go nowhere. I’ve read 50 chapters and, insofar as I can tell, the manga seems to comprise solely of Hideo going from place to place not looking for anything in particular aside from ‘safety’. This is bad because that means the story would have to be character-driven for reader interest…and my feeling towards the characters make it clear that isn’t going to work.
I suppose I can see why some others may like this, but it’s really just not my type.
I have given it three tries with this latest attempt having me forced myself through 50 chapters – 10x more than I typically give to any manga. There are a number of reasons why, but it boils down to an inability to connect with the characters and an incoherent story.
In regards to characters: The MC – Suzuki Hideo – is an aspiring mangaka, but his behavior and manner of speech make him seem more like an oversized manchild. He spends his time talking to a series of hallucinations he conjures in his mind which appears whenever he wants a conversation (at one time being peed on by Hideo too) and, when not talking to those hallucinations, he may do anything from posing stupidly or singing such enlightening songs as ‘The Pussy Song’.
Overall, I really detest the MC. Many of the characters act like him so, so guess how I feel about them.
About an incoherent story: Many reviewers describe the story about being a zombie apocalypse/outbreak type of story. I can’t say I agree. It is about zombie-like creatures suddenly appearing everywhere, causing chaos, and eating people, but nothing makes sense.
To begin, the ‘zombies’ look horrific and are often bending their bodies in horrible ways…yet strangely, nobody seem to recognize them as being some form of monsters. Very often, they’re treated as normal people who are just acting weird. Even as they’re biting people’s limbs off, they’re treated that way.
Furthermore, despite chaos being everywhere (even happening on TV and the JDF mobilizing), the MC somehow keeps running into people who seems 100% oblivious to what’s going on. At one point, there was a whole group of people on the train who saw that a large cloud of smoke billowing out of a city and people were being chased and killed…nobody other than the MC even cared.
Something wasn’t right. It almost feels as if the manga is a massive delusion from the MC rather than something real and/or some unwieldy social commentary/symbolism from the author. If it is the case, I had found it difficult to grasp. I mean really difficult; it took until chapter 30 before I began to get an inkling of the message the author was trying to convey. By the time I gave up on this manga, I finally started grasping the message that manga has been sending. Unfortunately, by that point, I stopped caring.
To cap my review, I think I’ve given this manga far more of a chance than I give most, but I think it has too many large weaknesses to ignore.
Overall, I think its biggest weakness (aside from what I mention above) is that the plot appears to go nowhere. I’ve read 50 chapters and, insofar as I can tell, the manga seems to comprise solely of Hideo going from place to place not looking for anything in particular aside from ‘safety’. This is bad because that means the story would have to be character-driven for reader interest…and my feeling towards the characters make it clear that isn’t going to work.
I suppose I can see why some others may like this, but it’s really just not my type.
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Dunkjoe2
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I Am a Hero review
I didn't really like this. This is not a manga for people like me, who value meaning, ambition, purpose, ya get it. However, even I can recognize that this manga is amazing. It is the scariest manga that I've ever read, it beats out the "disturbing" scary of Junjo Ito, the "gory" scary of your stereotypical apocalypse survival horror manga, and the "existential crisis" scary of psychological horror, it comes close to jumpscare shock. Why?
Because everything is so goddam pointless. I believe "I Am a Hero" is actually one of the most realistic tellings of an survival horror story. The realism is precisely what gets to me. The freaking monotony of the dude's life before and after the event, his averageness (to be generous,) the fact that people just get super well adjusted to having crazy dead people around very quickly just freaks me out. I thought there would be more delusional people or people who just snap, but no. They even treat the zombies as people, like what the hell?
Anyways, I finished it but I'll never touch it again. It's too weird, I don't think I'll ever come to terms with it. I don't really wanna think about it either. Whoever wrote this is a madman. Insanity.
And that, folks, is how to scare someone out of a fandom.
Because everything is so goddam pointless. I believe "I Am a Hero" is actually one of the most realistic tellings of an survival horror story. The realism is precisely what gets to me. The freaking monotony of the dude's life before and after the event, his averageness (to be generous,) the fact that people just get super well adjusted to having crazy dead people around very quickly just freaks me out. I thought there would be more delusional people or people who just snap, but no. They even treat the zombies as people, like what the hell?
Anyways, I finished it but I'll never touch it again. It's too weird, I don't think I'll ever come to terms with it. I don't really wanna think about it either. Whoever wrote this is a madman. Insanity.
And that, folks, is how to scare someone out of a fandom.
I Am a Hero
Autor
Hanazawa, Kengo
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