10 Manga With Amazing Artwork

Beware alien explosions. For most of us that would probably go without saying but for 50-something Ichiro Inuyashiki and young teen Hiro Shishigami, it was a lesson they learn the hard way.

Now possessing bodies forever changed by their contact with extraterrestrial technology, the two separate and go on drastically different journeys with their new powers.

Ichiro uses his abilities for good, nobly working to better himself and his community. Shishigami on the other hand revels in using his power for evil, murdering just about anyone unlucky enough to meet him. Both cyborgs now, the story revolves around their philosophies on how to retain the humanity of their old lives and the impact such changes have on not only them but everyone and thing around them.

Hiroya Oku’s beautiful artwork perfectly captures both the joyful heroics and the gut churning brutalities of his 2 respective leads as they slowly begin their inevitable collision course. Slightly less outrageous than his grislier, more (in)famous Gantz series, Oku’s well received sci fi epic is a great meditation on heroism and villainy in a time where such themes are dominating cinema.