Dokyoboshi

A manga about a Mars space exploration mission gone horribly wrong which leads a young Japanese trucker named Dokyo to become an astronaut.

We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.

Wow, this manga is great. The astronaut training parts feel extremely close to Space Brothers and they’re good but the science fiction segments on Mars are the highlights here. A lone surviving astronaut tries to make sense of the incident that killed the rest of his crew and the mysterious Tesseract that stalks him. The Tessaract is able to manipulate objects that ignore perspectives which make for really interesting art work within the panels.

I’ve read a few of Yoshihiro Yamada‘s manga but I personally loved this one. I feel like science fiction is actually Yamada’s strong suite even though he’s more known for his historical series Hyouge Mono. I think it’s a damn shame that Dokyoboshi was canceled and the story is incomplete. Now I know why there are fans still clamoring for this series to get rebooted and finished. And I’m one of them now too.

~dakazu