Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition

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I'm putting these two together because they both make little sense. The mangaka knows how to draw, and I can see that, but the extra lines almost hides the story behind them. There were times when I had no idea what was going on because the weird lines were everywhere. The characters were good, but what they looked like confused me to no end. A good many of the "normal looking" characters looked identical to each other. On the other hand, the "bad looking" characters were all had disfigured faces and wrinkles where there shouldn't be. If you want to read something where the "good guys" and the "Bad guys" can easily be identified by how awful they look, then this is the series for you; that is if you can find the minute details that make each "normal" character unique(I've yet to find them). There were way too many ideas crammed in the series to make it enjoyable. That, and the weird art ruined the series. There were many times when I just wanted to leave the manga alone, but I kept thinking that it will make sense at the end. Unfortunately I was let down. Alice Lewis: This is the first time Tsutomu Nihei’s Abarahas been available and translated in English! It’s an earlier work of his, and fans can probably see hints of things that tie into his other stories. We’ve collected the complete story into one deluxe edition (and also included an early short story of his, “ Digimortal“).

The attached Digimortal is much the same, but I think it might be from slightly earlier in Nihei's career. I couldn't find any information in English on when or where it was published. There's nothing to see here. Everything about this series could have been done much better with the exception of the story. This is probably one of the first times I've read a manga where the story couldn't possibly help it.The art conveys the atmosphere of the story decently and is great, but it does suffer from some problems. The art may be beautiful, but it misses some detail, which causes the implications of the concept and story to be only partly visible. Especially since about 95% of the panes don't have any dialogue and where dialogue appears it's not comprehensive enough to paint the full extent of the story.

Abara is a succinct work of art by Tsutomu Nihei that accomplishes what it sets out to do; to create a world, to tell a story within that world, and to end it. Like most of Nihei's work, the story and plot details are left vague and interspersed through the information given among the occasional dialogue. It's up to the reader to piece the puzzle together and eventually the plot helps to tie these pieces together by the end.Um so enttäuschender war es in der Handlung voranzukommen, denn Erklärungen zu dieser dystopischen Welt oder den genannten Gaunas gab es nicht. Ich musste den Band ganze 3-mal beginnen, da ich nach einer kleinen Lesepause nicht wieder ins Geschehen hinein fand.