Hey there everyone! For this new presentation, I'll be talking about an awesome
action manga:
action manga:
Code: breaker
So,
this time, a single man works above, Akimine Kamijo, or Akimine Kamijyô.This manga is his third one, and before he wrote two
quite famous mangas, Samouraï Deeper Kyo, on which I will make a post
later, and Shirogane no Karasu, which looks pretty awesome, but was not
released outside Japan, unfortunately. Both of them are battle mangas,
and Code: breaker is not making an exception, but if the two first were taking place in an ancient Japan, this one is taking place in today world.
Before I talk to you guys about the story, lets present you the concept:
The
actual Japan, a peacefull country as any other. Happy citizens,
appreciated rulers, and, as in any other part of the world, a bunch of
criminals, running in the street as well as in the high sphere of
gouvernement. In fact, the only difference that could be spotted is
hidden in the shadow: under the prime minister's orders, a group of people
are using their special abilities in the name of justice, hunting criminals around the country. Their motto? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, evil for evil.
Those peoples above the laws are named
Can you honestly say you don't want to give it a try now? However, lets get to the story!
In this story, we're following a young girl named Sakurakoji sakura, very skilled at Aïkido, karate and judo, and that is going to find out that her new classmate, Ogami Rei, is actually a killer used by the gouvernement to eliminate criminals, The Code Breaker 06, using his power, a strange blue flame, to executate the prime minister's orders. In addition, we learn in the first book that Sakurakoji is a "special specimen", and even if we don't know what this means for a quite long time, it's adding an interest to this character, that could at first sight look uninteresting if you're not fond of what I call the unactive Heros. Indeed this is what she looks like at the beginnig of the story.
The point is that Sakurakoji is a fervent protector of Humans life, and during a good part of the story, she will try to convince Ogami to stop killing people, whithout any results. In fact, the way of thinking of Ogami, even if it is horrible, seem more logical, because during the story all the situations are going in his direction, showing that for a lot of people, speaking is useless, and that the basic laws of the country are not working on everyone.
To tell you the truth, I first thought that Sakurakoji was going to be the greatest weakness of this manga, because of her first role in the story which is almost to be a burden for Ogami. Even though her first interventions to prevent Ogami from killing are comprehensible, it can often be really annoying. In addition, in the first part of the manga, a lot of elements are showing the rightness, if we can say so, of Ogami's point of view, by showing the cruallity of reality, corruptions, unhuman acts... But this is on purpous: that's the true and deep nature of this main character, a real humanity lover that cannot stand murder in any case and for any reason, which is probably why the code breakers, who almost gave their humanity to the gouvernement, seem to quite like her.
Yeah, I did say the Code Breakers, because as some of you might have guess by watching the first-or the second-picture there is quite a lot of them.
Well done Sherlock!
Indeed, this manga gets its real interests when the other code breakers are starting to get in the dance. With them, we slowly come to learn more about Sakurakoji and, first, about Ogami. Indeed, you quickly learn that his intention is not to stay the gouvernements puppet, but to kill someone known as Sagashimono, the one you search, who is the guy who rose Ogami and learned him to control his powers. Each and every code:breaker as it's single interesting-and often funny-personnality, and trust me when I tell you that between them, the ancient code:breakers seeking for revenge and the Re:code, working for Sagashimono, you will not get bored.
As you probably notice, this manga seem to question a lot the use and the conception of justice, revenge and criminality. I wouldn't say that it is done in an original way, but it is definitely very well done and shown.
In this story, we're following a young girl named Sakurakoji sakura, very skilled at Aïkido, karate and judo, and that is going to find out that her new classmate, Ogami Rei, is actually a killer used by the gouvernement to eliminate criminals, The Code Breaker 06, using his power, a strange blue flame, to executate the prime minister's orders. In addition, we learn in the first book that Sakurakoji is a "special specimen", and even if we don't know what this means for a quite long time, it's adding an interest to this character, that could at first sight look uninteresting if you're not fond of what I call the unactive Heros. Indeed this is what she looks like at the beginnig of the story.
The point is that Sakurakoji is a fervent protector of Humans life, and during a good part of the story, she will try to convince Ogami to stop killing people, whithout any results. In fact, the way of thinking of Ogami, even if it is horrible, seem more logical, because during the story all the situations are going in his direction, showing that for a lot of people, speaking is useless, and that the basic laws of the country are not working on everyone.To tell you the truth, I first thought that Sakurakoji was going to be the greatest weakness of this manga, because of her first role in the story which is almost to be a burden for Ogami. Even though her first interventions to prevent Ogami from killing are comprehensible, it can often be really annoying. In addition, in the first part of the manga, a lot of elements are showing the rightness, if we can say so, of Ogami's point of view, by showing the cruallity of reality, corruptions, unhuman acts... But this is on purpous: that's the true and deep nature of this main character, a real humanity lover that cannot stand murder in any case and for any reason, which is probably why the code breakers, who almost gave their humanity to the gouvernement, seem to quite like her.
Yeah, I did say the Code Breakers, because as some of you might have guess by watching the first-or the second-picture there is quite a lot of them.
Well done Sherlock!
Indeed, this manga gets its real interests when the other code breakers are starting to get in the dance. With them, we slowly come to learn more about Sakurakoji and, first, about Ogami. Indeed, you quickly learn that his intention is not to stay the gouvernements puppet, but to kill someone known as Sagashimono, the one you search, who is the guy who rose Ogami and learned him to control his powers. Each and every code:breaker as it's single interesting-and often funny-personnality, and trust me when I tell you that between them, the ancient code:breakers seeking for revenge and the Re:code, working for Sagashimono, you will not get bored. As you probably notice, this manga seem to question a lot the use and the conception of justice, revenge and criminality. I wouldn't say that it is done in an original way, but it is definitely very well done and shown.
Well, this is it folks, I know I took a veeerry long time to post this new short article, I've been really busy during holydays, working on some projects I might share with you someday soon. Until then, just know that I have a little gift for you guys, which I'm going to show you in the next post and that also took me quite a lot of time during hollidays.
As usual, leave a comment if you have any request or suggestions, or if you just want to talk a little, it would really please me, and of course I'll read them all and take them into account.
Bye guys!
The Mad Hatter
