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He instinctively rushes to the aid of their next victim and gives the kids the scare of their life after awakening his new superhuman abilities. With his new and improved hearing capabilities, Ichiro overhears a group of young thugs ganging up on homeless people and beating them to death with baseball bats in the distance. It seems that the aliens driving the UFO took pity on the poor old man and performed an emergency operation to bring him back from the dead, upgrading his body with their superior technology and leaving him with a few new tricks up his sleeve to keep him safe from harm, such as enhanced vision, hearing, strength, durability and the ability to fly. Hanako is still by his side when he awakes, and both of them know that something isn’t quite right. It seems to be an unfortunate end for Ichiro, until he wakes up completely unscathed and feeling healthier than ever. Just when things seem like they’ve reached their lowest point, a UFO of all things comes crashing down to earth and lands right on top of the frail old man and a nearby bystander. Ready to run away from all of his responsibilities and burdens, Ichiro takes a long walk away from home with Hanako and stops to take a rest under the night sky in an empty park to gather his thoughts. Things seem to brighten up for him after he adopts a cute and affectionate dog he names Hanako, but his happiness is instantly robbed from him when he learns from his doctor that he’s been diagnosed with cancer and has less than three months left to live. He’s too depressed and afraid to stand up for himself and he struggles to find a reason to keep living such an unfulfilling life. He’s constantly ignored, disrespected and put down by his dissatisfied family and judgmental peers regardless of how much effort he puts into trying to give them everything he can to make them happy. I hope it continues to get better!įifty-eight-year-old Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck and still struggling to find a place in the world after living for so long. I also think Hiro is becoming more compelling the more they go on. It feels like a bridge for something HUGE coming. Also, how do becoming a machine robot creature give you powers to heal everything? Weird. Like there's a part the characters are in shock for about 8 's a bit much.

Some overly long 'What!?' and 'How!?' panels. Also liking how our main character is finally learning to use his new talents.īad: It's a very quick volume and went too fast. The final moments in this volume kind of make you forget his past sins even though once you remember you can tell him to go fuck himself. After he finds some soul searching he thinks maybe it's best he stops killing and despite being a robot maybe try to live a human life. Then you have Hiro, the kid who goes around killing because he can, starting to figure out life. So Hiro's old friend, who is now scared of him, begins to help train him. Yeah we've seen him fuck shit up before but never really on purpose. We have Inuyashiki learning to use his weapons and powers he's gained. However, it's actually pretty interesting. Half about training, half about moving on in life. So this volume feels like a bridge of sorts. But there wasn’t much compelling in this fourth book and it’s basically killed what little interest I had in this series! I guess it was kinda fun to see Inuyashiki figure out just how powerful he is and see the net closing in around Hiro towards the end. Now his personality is radically different - he’s suddenly empathetic and caring! Wha… huh?! It doesn’t make any sense how someone can go from full-on sociopath back to being a semi-ordinary teenager - and there’s no explanation as to why or how! Totally unconvincing - such sloppy writing. In Volume 2 he got his powers and immediately murdered a random family in cold blood.

And I wish Ando didn’t look so similar to Hiro - it’s just unnecessarily confusing for them to look alike!īut by far the worst part of the book is how Hiro is written, or re-written rather. Which means most of the book is exposition and tedious lesson learning.

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Then we’re onto the murderous sociopath’s bestie, Ando, who decides he’s going to help Inuyashiki defeat his crazy friend Hiro by showing him how to use his bizarre robot powers. The book opens on the aftermath of the Yakuza dinner scene and gets resolved within a chapter - why wasn’t this included as the finale to the last book?! It’s the same with most superhero stories: every time the focus shifts to the good guy, things get really dull - it’s only entertaining once the hero and the villain are battling, or the focus is on the villain doing shady shit. Inuyashiki goes from being mediocre back to boring again with this fourth volume.