The Moon

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Japanese: ザ・ムーン

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 6

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 10, 1972 to Apr 6, 1973

Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Authors: Akiyama, George (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 6.85¹ (scored by 125 users)

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Ranked: #11267²

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Popularity: #25846

Members: 434

Favorites: 8

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6.85

Ranked #11267Popularity #25846Members 434

MangaShounen SundayAkiyama, George (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

Nine children are bestowed the almighty power of the monstrous robot, The Moon. By focusing their thoughts together they become able to control it with their minds and save the world from annihilation.

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Oct 24, 2021

Frank666

Recommended

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Awesome very obscure Mecha manga, a sad tale which ends in tragedy and death for the protagonists and human race as a whole, more modernly very reminiscent of Bokurano and very distantly of Evangelion, which might have taken an inspiration or two from "The Moon"

The Art is okay, it's a classic style of manga, kinda like Getter Robo or Mazinger Z, the pages are clean and the story is easily to follow through the panels, most of the characters are kinda of a one note though, and some seem strange and very out of place unless you know the rest of the cosmology of the ...

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Dec 30, 2021

Babeldiosu

Mixed Feelings

Forgotten for a reason.
The story has a problem of presenting the audience with ideas and themes, and then never elaborating on said themes. For an example, near the beginning of the story, the children who inherit the robot "The Moon" are told that they are to find their own meaning of justice, and that that's why they've been given The Moon. However, the story never elaborates further upon this. The children are never truly faced with any other justice to compete against and contrast with their own form of justice that is also never ...