Many of those videos got lost with time, but the most memorable ones got uploaded on Youtube, and some even got so much attention that they developed into something even more massive.
The most peculiar animated videos were those of fighting stickmen. Millions of people watched them fight for minutes at a time, killing hordes of enemies or just brawling it out between two of them.
This is, without much exaggeration, what Biomega is.
I wish I could speak about the series as a whole, but there's really not much to say. It starts well, with an extremely banal apocalypse zombie premise, and non-existent characters, who all look pretty much the same... and then it somehow gets worse.
As I already stated multiple times, writers should stick to a few ideas, not overcomplicate things, and stick to them. Alas, Nihei couldn't, for the life of him, do it.
Zunichi, our protagonist, is tasked with the retrieval of Eon Green, an important human who's the key to stopping the plague from spreading. This is as much as I'm willing to explain since the story decided to get over convoluted.
Since he couldn't stay on track with the zombie apocalypse, Nihei went full in on cosmic horror/existential dread. He keeps introducing new characters, doesn't explain who they are or their motivations, and kills them pretty much instantly. It keeps going, until, after volume 3, he hard-resets the world and we're transported thousands of years into the future, in a whole new dimension/planet, to fight off... the same enemies as before.
In the end, after a thousand years of time-skip to kill off 11 of the 12 main enemy bases, they kill the main enemy because of a talking bear (!) who has the power to warp reality because he got transplanted an important character's brain into himself.
If this sounds too absurd and childish to be true, I have bad news for you.
It's frankly baffling that this manga even has mixed reviews to begin with. The story makes no sense whatsoever, the characters are plot devices and look all too similar to even discern, and the author refuses to give information, he'd rather stay vague about it all.
Sure, there are some kind of fanatics trying to patch together theories and making it all work out in the end by filling in stuff he didn't say or plan out, but I'm just left with one question: why?
What was the point of adding all this convoluted story? It does not add anything. It hugely subtracts from the experience, making it impossible to follow properly without backtracking, writing down names and scattering information.
I have no idea why anyone, in good conscience, could give it more than a negative recommendation.
The main selling point, the drawings, are cool. But the paneling is atrocious, all characters look the same, it's almost impossible to follow what's happening during the fights, and the author... he doesn't care.
He keeps drawing ghastly aberrations and gory fights, over and over and over. It almost becomes comical since we don't have any character development. There's a moment during the end where a little kid meets a blind alien who helps her. He gets his brain splattered over the floor 10 pages later. It's full of scenes like these and I have no idea why.
Again, the comparison to stickmen fights comes to mind. Nihei just wanted to draw sci-fi horrors battling it out.
Sure, ok, it would have been a bit too confusing, but I'd accept that since it's easy to read and he has a... peculiar style to say the least.
Why did he feel the need to add all that complex stuff? I am baffled because I cannot explain it for the life of me. He just sabotaged his series, so there's that.
This reconfirms my theory that social pressure forces people to give highly-rated series a good grade. I've read a bunch of reviews on the net, and not one of them specified what's great about Biomega, except the art (which is reasonable).
I honestly believe anyone knows this manga is trash but they're afraid to admit it, fearing repercussions from alleged elitists.
I won't allow it.
If you want to read a good take on reality-warping dread, go give Fire Punch a try. I have no idea why anyone would ever recommend this. It's just bad and boring.
Initially, I wanted to frame Biomega as action junk food. But the problem is that it tries too hard to sound like a Michelin 3-star meal, forgetting that he's just barely more than a tepid hamburger.
