About a year ago, I was surfing through OneManga.com and I happened across a little manga by the name of Akumetsu. Intrigued by both the name and the plot summary, I began to read and was taken on one of the most wild rides of my life. And now, nearly a year later, the story of Akumetsu has come to a close and I feel...oddly satisfied.
Akumetsu can be described as Death Note with more balls. It is set in Japan and follows the adventure of a high school student by the name of Shou as he sets out to brutally murder everyone in a vigilante-like manner everyone who is responsible for the current state of Japan's struggling/failing economy. All the while, he wears a demonic mask that blows up his head everytime that he is killed. But here's the kick: he never dies! Or at least, he seems to be able to be in several places at the same time (at one time killing 40 people at the same time and then having their heads blown up. And then there's still more of him!).
The story is roughly 162 chapters (which is a pretty large number considering the manga). And it is just a treat to watch all these people who are purposely putting the economy in jeopardy for their own financial gain. For example, one man received funding for an "express highway" which would in turn give him lots of money. However, it turns out that it would actually take people longer to get to their destination if they took the express highway instead of the normal highway. Suffice it to say, Shou aka Akumetsu straps the man to the top of his car, drives off the end of the unfinished highway, which falls top down on the ground, killing the man instantly.
As you can see, the deaths are quite brutal but that's what makes it so good! Where Death Note had Light being a pussy and giving people heart attacks, Shou/Akumetsu actively goes out of his way to kill these people (in also strangely humorous ways).
I can't help but make connections with our own struggling economy (which I hear is getting better). Would it be cool for someone to go out and kill people responsible for our bad economy? Or should we just make an adaption of this manga?
I thoroughly suggest you read Akumetsu if you have time. You won't regret it and you'll have lots of fun.
Now, I must apparantly eat lunch with my family. My mom's being a whiney annoyance again.
Later!
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