World Embryo

Type: Manga

Status: Ongoing

Premise: There is a virus spreading throughout the world killing people in the most gruesome of fashions, not one of microbes and parasites but a computer virus delivered directly into your brain via your cell phone. Once infected by the virus humans react violently and transform into bloodthirsty beasts bent on infecting more people and slaughtering the rest. "F.L.A.G." is a special division of an international cell phone company who are responsible for the extermination of these mutations, they do it in secret as a way to avert panic and economic repercussions to themselves. Riku Amami who lost his sister in a fire at the local hospital receives a text message from her telling him to come to the hospital, he is caught up in a battle between 2 F.L.A.G. members and a group of mutants and is saved by a mysterious cocoon he finds that then hatches into a baby girl that has a striking resemblance to his long lost sister; now he must figure out what happened all those years ago and how all of these events tie together.

Thoughts: An interesting world has been developed in this manga where modern day technology and culture is mashed together with the classic monster hunter theme creating a rich and interesting middle ground that is extremely enjoyable to read. 

Prose: Interesting setting, with well motivated characters that each have their own depth of personality creating strong 3 dimensional characters. These characters are the best part of the manga because each is broken or desperate in their own way making them fight tooth and nail to retrieve what they have lost.

Cons: There are some failings in the plot were you are left thinking "well that was pointless" or "why the hell did he do that" which strikes me as lazy writing.

-Notes: There is something that happens in the story to Riku that could have been an interesting and truely defining part of his character but instead it is glossed over without a second thought, this was SO anoying to me that I almost stopped reading (and you will come to understand my frustration once you see it) but I am glad I didn't because it is a nice story otherwise.

8/10          (There are bad ideas then there are BAD IDEAS.)