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Japanese: ALIVE


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 10
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 4, 1999 to Jun 17, 1999
Genres: Horror Horror, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Jump
Authors: Takahashi, Tsutomu (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.611 (scored by 79807,980 users)
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Ranked: #143922
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Popularity: #1354
Members: 14,401
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Synopsis

Yashiro Tenshuu killed 5 people, including his girlfriend, and is now on death row. However, a secret government organization is willing to take him off death row if he allows himself to become a test subject to an experiment that requires a killer's intent.

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Alive was published in Portuguese by Panini Editorial on December 22, 2017.

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Characters

Yashiro, Tenshuu
Yashiro, Tenshuu
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Gondou
Gondou
Supporting
Saegusa, Yurika
Saegusa, Yurika
Supporting
Kojima
Kojima
Supporting
Hara, Misako
Hara, Misako
Supporting
Scientist
Scientist
Supporting

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6 Recommended
2 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Jun 2, 2010
aindah
Recommended
In my opinion this manga is amazing. I've often wondered how good a one shot can be, and Alive! is my answer. The story starts off innocently enough, but then we are dragged into an allegorical story about evil. Two death row convicts are drawn into a peculiar attempt to transfer this evil from a body of a seemingly innocent girl who has been infected with it by her father. Is this infection really a disease? Or is it something that lingers within every human being, waiting to be awakened? What kind of person can win against the black within? A pure-hearted one, or a ...
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Jan 22, 2009
BorisSoad
Mixed Feelings
Horror and manga. I never knew that combination excisted. And I have to say: I'm glad it does excists. I was looking aroudn for some manga and I found this. Only ten chapters, why not read it?

I finished it in about half an hour. The story kept me reading and guessing what would happen untill the very end. Why did I give the story a six then? It was fine, but there was no moral or whatever behind it. The maincharacter is a son of a bitch and I just wanted him to die. Perhaps not everyone agrees with me on that, but that's my ...
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Nov 21, 2016
Paraturtle
Not Recommended
Story:
Not that great. A real mess of forgotten character traits, weak character relationships, and just weak characters overall. A waste of time. I found the first chapter to be a real cheat. It lays the foundation for a neat protagonist as a writer who's on death row. Then it's never mentioned again that he's a writer despite a fairly important scene taking place in regards to it, and it really doesn't matter that he was on death row either. It's kinda just dumb.

And that's a lot of what's going on. It's just a buncha dumb stuff. I'll give credit where credit is due: there are ...
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