Black Magic

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Synonyms: Shirou Masamune Kojinshuu "Black Magic", Shirou Masamune Shoki Sakuhinshuu: Black Magic

Japanese: ブラックマジック

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 6

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 25, 1983

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Serialization: None

Authors: Shirow, Masamune (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.04¹ (scored by 567 users)

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Ranked: #17902²

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Popularity: #10503

Members: 1,559

Favorites: 3

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MangaShirow, Masamune (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

Black Magic is the exciting futuristic adventure of Sybel, a freelance video journalist who becomes involved in a dangerous military fiasco when two top-secret military android assassins, know as M-66 units, are lost. One of the deadly M-66 units escapes with a mission to eliminate Ferris, the granddaughter of its creator. Time is running out as Sybel faces the deadly M-66 android in an epic battle to save Ferris.

There is a power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that.

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Background

Black Magic was published in English by Dark Horse on April 23, 2008.

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Adaptation:

Black Magic M-66

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Sep 21, 2008

xMatronxMalicex

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/6 eps)

I'd heard that the story was damn near incomprehensible, and whoever wrote that was right. It jumps all over the place, and it’s pretty hard to follow. It's not that the writing is difficult to understand, the story just literally doesn't make sense. If you consider it to be more of a collection of random short stories set in the same universe, it seems to make it more understandable. Since it was his first work, though, I'll cut him some slack.

The art isn't Shirow's best, and the detailed backgrounds you come to expect from him are nowhere to be found. There was even one ...

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Apr 12, 2014

brashieel

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/6 eps)

This is Masamune Shirow's first work, and as you might expect, it's far from his best. It's a series of semi-connected short stories that are supposed to take place within the same universe, with a set of shared characters that pop up from time to time. The setting is a weird mix of semi-hard and really soft science fiction, with some very badly defined magic/ESP thrown in to confuse things.

The overall plot is basically incomprehensible. There is a prelude and and epilogue that try to bookend the series, but they have no obvious connection to the rest of the story. And the epilogue really ...