A fine companion to Battle Angel Alita
In Ashen Victor author and artist Yukito Kishiro stretches his creative muscles with a noir detective story.
If you're new to the world, there's not much you need to know, it's the future, it's dark, and cyborgs compete in a deadly game called motorball.
This book centers on Snev, the 'Crash King' of motorball. A gifted player who nonetheless had never finished a race. Every match ends with his cyborg body in peices scattered across the track. In fact this has made him a hit with some fans who come to the races just to experince his crashes through a virtual reality rig. he soon become tangled up in a murder mystery and must face his own inner demons.
The art is darker and more abstract than in Alita. Yukito is definitely experimenting with his style and the results are pretty good.
This is not essential readinig for fans of Alita and Last Order, but it's an interesting experiment and worth checking out.
If you liked Gunnm, try this one out too.
I quickly fell in love with the Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) manga, and had to pick this up as well. After reading Ashen Victor, I was by no means disappointed with it as some were; in fact, I was pleased to see the versatility of Kishiro's style. Although I do feel that the manga could have been longer, the reader still gets a good feel for the characters and the plot is well-executed. While it may not live up to the art and beauty of Gunnm, it is a good, solid story and a great addition to any Kishiro fan's collection.
A nice followup to the Alita series
Some don't like the art as much, but Kishiro is simply using a more monochromatic style in this book, and I personally feel it fits the mood of the story much better. The story, theme and characters are once again top notch, and it was nice to see Kishiro work with a smaller scale of story telling. The odd mixture of mechanical violence, technology and humanity works just as well as it did in the far more epic Alita series. This guy should really be making sci-fi films with enormous budgets. ;-)
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