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Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: 1996 to 2000
Genre: Fantasy Fantasy
Serialization: None
Authors: Taniguchi, Jiro (Art), Moebius (Story)

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Score: 6.081 (scored by 925925 users)
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Ranked: #195632
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Popularity: #8640
Members: 2,330
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MangaTaniguchi, Jiro (Art), Moebius (Story)
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Icaro is a thrilling manga science fiction adventure in the tradition of Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Clamp's sf sagas. Icaro is the mind-bending, fast-paced adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life -- and more -- to help Icaro achieve his dream. Best of all, it capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study.
Icaro's fight to be free and Yukiko's sacrifice to aid him in his quest make this one of the most inspiring manga stories and one of the first significant original manga collaborations between East and West. (Source: MangaUpdates)

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May 30, 2024
gbupp
Recommended
Icaro is stunted by two things (one of which is only valid when considering the English release). Its biggest flaw is that the translation is not particularly good. You can tell it is a literal translation of text versus a contextual translation of text. Sometimes that can work out okay, but in this case, it comes off very stale. There is clearly inflection that we are missing in what is being discussed and times where the dialogue almost makes no sense. While it is certainly possible that it is that way in the original Japanese, I find that very hard to believe. Overall, you still ...
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Nov 14, 2019
Tyrraell
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Icaro is a piece of collaboration between Moebius (real name, Jean Giraud), creating the story, and Jiro Taniguchi, being responsible for the art. The concept of a team effort between both famous french writer and japanese mangaka sure raises the bar of expectation for this manga alot, which is eventually the reason why the reader would be left with bitter taste at it's end, both creators are masters in their respective genres, but this work cerntainly doesn't solidify their fame.

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