And that's The End.

man

that was awesome

thank you so much

Great work, WAHa.
I hesitate to point this out, but there's a tiny typo on the last page:
"I'ill" instead of "I'll" in the last panel.

Good Work.

BTW, I can't understand his action. If I were him, I'd go with her to procect her.. no, probably, I'm just curious to know what it is like outside. He is a coward :-( .And I guess Hero Girl just saw wastes from the window. She might be unable to breathe. (I may be pessimistic..)

Yes, he's a coward. Maybe. It's not always cowardice to choose something deliberately, as the most intelligent choice.

Any one of us, being intelligent and inquisitive people, would probably elect to explore the intellectually stimulating (and who knows, possibly sexually rewarding) adventure of going with Mizuho into the unknown.

But the protagonist chooses otherwise, possibly because he doesn't believe there is any future in the adventurous choice.

Another possibility is that the "brainwashing" that is apparent in the capsule society they live in has a more solid hold on him than on her. If so, then he is blameless.

Such an intriguing, haunting story! So many questions. The power was out all over town, so... were there hologram projectors in the mountain area that would usually mask out the tower? Why does this girl seem to know so much more about what's going on? What kind of conditioning is going on, and why does she seem to be immune to it? Will the power come back on, or will it remain off, one more sign of the town's supposed abandonment? As a long-time YKK fan, I am just fine with unanswered questions like this.

I am reminded of my all-time favorite SF novel, "Orphans of the Sky" by Heinlein, about life in a large colony spaceship many generations after their society has reverted to savagery, to the point that they have no idea they live in a spaceship. And then one bright young lad is exploring one day, and...

Colony ships are a staple of SF, and there have been several stories set aboard ships where the descendants of the original crew have forgotten the true nature of their environment. Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky" probably inspired Brian Aldiss' "Non-Stop", and these two make up the "core literature" of this subgenre. However, there have been many such. I recall a pornographic European comic which had this as an underlying premise (in between the sex and stuff). I can't recall the title, though.

However, in this case, it doesn't seem necessary for the story setting to be inside a colony ship. There are a number of other possible explanations for the situation. For instance, it could be a zoo, where the last "endangered species" humans live. Or, these could be the descendants of people who chose not to transcend during a Singularity-type event.

I'd love to see the story continued, but I agree with whispers - it doesn't need to be.

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that this story involves a colony ship. Actually details in the story point against that, to me. The similarity would be a society that doesn't realize the true nature of their world.

The really wicked part of "Orphans of the Sky" was the social commentary Heinlein sneaked in to suggest that we might not know the true nature of our world, either.

>>679

As soon as I get home, I'll fix that page. It's the last one so I can just repost that without breaking the ordering...

As for the story, there's a lot about it I love, but what really gets me is the last line. Where you this kind of story would usually have some sort of statement about how the main character is the only one who'll remember her, you get the opposite - he's already given up on her. He couldn't keep up with her when she was around, and he has even less chance when she's gone.

See, that just goes to show that two readers tend to interpret even a simple text with radical variations. To me, that last sentence implied that he was aware that the "brainwashing effect" would completely expunge Mizuho from his memory.

(Erroneously posted as the start of a separate thread, too - will someone oblige by zapping that thread?)

Oh, I do agree that it could be read that way, but even if that's it, he's resigned to it - he's making no effort to fight it. I think it's intentionally written to make it ambiguous as to whether there's an active suppressing of awareness of the outside world, or whether it's just the old group mentality doing its thing- "the weirdo girl is gone, and good riddance".

He seems to have some sort of obsession with architecture (as do some other mangaka like Nihei Tsutomu or Katsuhiro Otomo) but then again, lots of mangaka have some weird fetish for structures (guns, cars, bikes, tanks, breast fat tissue, etc).

Love his work. Would love to see more, esp. the stories involving aliens.

As a quick reminder, I did a "translation" of another of his stories:

http://cerealandmilk.net/iichan/img/res/414.html

This one was a lot easier!

>>691

I quite like these quirks that a lot of artists have. Hayao Miyazaki has his airplanes, as does Mohiro Kitoh (although Miyazaki likes the propeller-driven ones more, and Kitoh the modern jets). Otomo's cityscapes are quite mind-boggling.

Awatake's style is sort of reminescent of Masamune Shirow's. Shirow also has the architecture thing going, and Awatake's characters also look vaguely like older Shirow art.

And here's the promised corrected final page.

>>659

Should be "clichéd."

This comic appears to be highly similar to Megazone 23, except more sci-fi and less 80s.

http://animejump.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=showcontent&id=505