manga: Dogs Vol 1-3
I read the prologue (prequel?) volume of Dogs a while back, enjoyed it despite not exactly understanding everything that was going on, got the rest of what was out, and the got distracted by something else. (This is how you end up with a backlog that would take years to read through, just FYI. Well, that and booksales.)
Dogs is a futuristic story about stray warriors with secrets, Epic Angst, and bad attitudes. There’s a stoic swordswoman looking for her family’s killer, a quasi-easygoing Old Dude (who just happens to be a dead ringer for Hohenheim from Full Metal Alchemist), an apathetic reporter who kills everything in sight if he goes 5 minutes without a cigarette (literally), a winged mute girl, a blind priest with a concerning loli fetish, and a seemingly-immortal mercenary who has a charming backstory involving things like genetically altered children being tossed into a pit with a giant monster to see how quickly they pull their body parts back together. Literally.
At a certain level, it’s like Kazuya Minekura binged on Kaori Yuki’s entire backlog and then created this. Possibly while drunk.
I’m still not entirely certain what happened with all of this, even after reading it twice, but I do know that I was entertained, if in a rather morbid way.
Dogs is a futuristic story about stray warriors with secrets, Epic Angst, and bad attitudes. There’s a stoic swordswoman looking for her family’s killer, a quasi-easygoing Old Dude (who just happens to be a dead ringer for Hohenheim from Full Metal Alchemist), an apathetic reporter who kills everything in sight if he goes 5 minutes without a cigarette (literally), a winged mute girl, a blind priest with a concerning loli fetish, and a seemingly-immortal mercenary who has a charming backstory involving things like genetically altered children being tossed into a pit with a giant monster to see how quickly they pull their body parts back together. Literally.
At a certain level, it’s like Kazuya Minekura binged on Kaori Yuki’s entire backlog and then created this. Possibly while drunk.
I’m still not entirely certain what happened with all of this, even after reading it twice, but I do know that I was entertained, if in a rather morbid way.