Mar 16, 2017
Seraphim is for a niche audience. If you are not a huge fan of Mamoru Oshii or Satoshi Kon, this manga is not for you. This is a short-lived collaboration between the two anime director from 1994-95, and because of Satoshi Kon's passing in 2010, it will remain unfinished indefinitely.
The work itself is politically dense. The characters travel across a quarantined China, searching for a cure to a deadly disease. It's unbearably information-heavy at the front of the book, but thankfully slows down towards to a simpler action-packed race against time towards the end. Unfortunately, it leaves the reader on an indefinite cliffhanger as
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soon as they become invested.
Again, one should only read this out of pure curiosity. It was a "lost" work for a decade and a half before being collected into a single volume. The end of Dark Horse's publication includes a thirty or so page essay about the history and analysis of the work, although at the time of this review, I have only skimmed through it.
(I think it is hilariously fitting to end this review without a strong closing, just as the manga.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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