- 8 years.
8 years, 22 volumes, 264 chapters.
One of the best zombie works of fiction of the last 10 years. (I’d say the best, but there’s lots of people who love that soap opera…what’s it’s name? Walking dead? Something like that.)
Finally the big blobs of ZQNs had conveyed somewhere.
“This is it! It’s going to be epic! What brought the ZQNs there? Why did all this happen? What will Hideo do?”
These questions and many more (what happened outside Japan? Did the french blobs do the same thing?) are left unanswered in the final chapters of the manga!!
That was a good kick in the balls.
After a chapter of “Hideo, the post apocalyptic city farmer.”, we got a final chapter of “Hideo, the post apocalyptic hunter, game tracker and ammo reloader.”.
I mean, I’m all for a manga covering the basics of ammo reloading, but…
8 years…
For this ending.
Post apocalyptic game tracker Hideo, at your service.
I mean, Hideo’s situation at the ending made perfect sense: he neither joined the blob that was made up of thousands of people nor did he join the few remaining survivors in isolated communities.
He just did his thing. As he in one way or another did for the entire manga.
He doesn’t belong either in the massive hive-mind or among other survivors.
Well, I guess that in the end Hideo did “grow up” as a person, think about it: his dependency on his girlfriend was gone; he became able to sacrifice for others; he became independent.
I guess the loneliness continued. Before the ZQN apocalypse in a way Hideo was alone even with company, after it he was physically alone.
He went from being a socially dependent outcast to being an outcast that was about as independent as one can be, I guess. The pendulum just swung all the way to the other side, from my view of it.
At the same time while Hideo’s final situation is quite understandable, there’s so much shit left untouched.
Why the hell did we have chapters of manga in France?
What the hell were the big blobs of ZQNs?
Is this real life ? Or just a fanta sea?
But yeah, no matter how much I want to wax poetic about it, the ending of the manga was a big let down. A huge let down.
Well, this strengthens my idea that for all the socially inept, unwanted outcasts, the zombie apocalypse can’t come quick enough.