Jagaaaaaan

A manga where strange parasitic frogs transform people into monsters representing their most base desires. Shintaro Jagasaki is a police officer who gains the ability to shoot blasts from his right hand and uses it to hunt down other monsters.

We discussed this on an older episode.

This is a a good action manga. Since this runs in Big Comic Spirits it doesn’t shy away from sexual content. But the focus here is on the monster designs and exciting action drawn by Kensuke Nishida. The author Muneyuki Kaneshiro is known for his work on As the Gods Will series and they’re also currently writing Blue Lock for Weekly Shonen Magazine. Kaneshiro does a good job examining Jagasaki’s guilt of killing people with his powers and the pleasure he feels by destroying his enemies. It’s makes for a dark super hero story where the protagonist isn’t necessarily a good person.

My main complaint about the story is it’s treatment of female characters. They’re mostly used as victims or even if they have powers they’re killed off or sidelined to make way for the male characters. Unfortunately it’s not surprising to see in these types of seinen action manga but I’m still enjoying Jagaaaaaan for what it is.

~dakazu

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