Mujina into the Deep

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Narrative and Production style: Just like any Asano work, this one is a wild, complex, intriguing and thought provoking art piece. But unlike the others, until now, the narrative is mostly straight forward. When the story starts to branch in new directions, instead of creating a new plot point, it just introduces to the reader new characters that follow the main story and helps the writer to define a stronger sense of development to the manga. It's A LOT more action packed than his other works, but the action is so well paced in each panel, it's almost like it's being animated or that you ... are reading some sort of extremelly detailed storyboard for an action sequence, which it's just as brilliant as it's captivating since it reproduces the essence of action in a couple of still images.

Story/Plot: It's deep, as always really creative and original concept into play with all the social dilemmas with it. You can feel that it's building up to some really emotional and enlightened arc. I won't say much because I don't want to ruin the experience, just go read the first to second chapter and you will be hooked.

Art Style: You can tell it's an Asano manga, but at the same time you can also notice how his art style has developed over the years and is now peaking. Stronger, more defined and chunky lines help to create a sense of movement for the amazing action panels while the more dark and gruesome choices of full black come into play to present a darker tone as if it's own narrative it's now reflecting in it's own art.

As of this is written there's only 12 chapters, I shall improve this review as it goes. But you should read it, RIGHT NOW.

It feels so natural for Inio Asano to do an action manga! His last works (like Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction) already contained some action scenes, and here they have a really nice pacing. Also, the art style is still very detailed for the backgrounds, plus some unique character designs.

However, so far there's no meaning behind all the sex scenes this manga has. I mean, unlike Punpun, it doesn't look like anything else but an edgy manga for teenagers. That's very unlike him, so I guess this time he really needs some time to develop the reasons behind it (well, I hope so).

Furthermore, while ... Asano certainly has the ability to create much more interesting characters (especially Ubume and Tenko), he seems to recycle some character designs for everyone else. They resemble some of DDDD's characters so much that it almost looks like they've been reincarnated in this universe lol

It's recommended to wait a few more chapters to see how it will develop, as there were some themes to discuss so far; probably more criticism of Japanese society, although none has been clearly established yet.