No Guns Life

A manga that takes place in a future where cybernetically enhanced soldiers called Extended are common place. Juzo Inui, a Gunhead Extend with amnesia, works as a detective and has just had a kid with a mysterious power everyone wants is put in his care.

This manga is aesthetically super cool. Tasuku Karasuma deserves some high praise for the unique design of Inui. But while I was interested to learn more about the hardboiled cyberpunk world Karasuma created, I ran into the same complaints I had with Yasuhiro Nightow and Sui Ishida works. It was hard to parse what was happening during the action sequences. Sometimes you just couldn’t tell what was occurring based on the perspective presented in the panels. I ended up dropping the book and now I’m watching the anime instead which is always a shame.

This is available in English from VIZ.

~dakazu