Reviews

Someone could call ES a plain sci-fi manga about human experimentation and meaning of being human, about value of human life, about morality of murder and judgment, about tragic love in today-we-save-the-world circumstances... The final may seem plain also as a logical ending. It may also scare like The Astronaut's Wife or Transcendence's final, when you know that this story is totally completed, though it may be also a beginning of smth... Wait a minute! Isn't it a describing of a perfect sci-fi?
ES - Eternal Sabbath is a great work, for adult mind and not for entertainment: there is little of humorous or absurd situations, there is no hope for happy outcome, cause in the real world someone just isn't happy and no one could do anything with this fact. Well-crafted plot and characters are as in the graphic novel. Es is the first manga that I enjoyed as a real book, so for me it is outstanding.
Though there is much of action and drama, the work is more philosophic, than any other genre, and psychology is just a welcomed part of a plot, because in really good novels the Plot is something that characters create by themselves.