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Don't let my score fool you, there's a very good reason this thing didn't get the 9 overall that it should have. The mangaka rushed the damned story. Overall though I think it deserves a read if you can't find anything else.

Its a great manga, but story arcs that should have taken place over 2-3 chapters, ended up taking place over 1-2 pages. cleverly thought out plot twists that should have been high points in the story, felt like cruel jokes by the author because of how rushed they were. They give no backstory to the tricks at all, ... they just all of a sudden reveal that the character had planted a bunch of bombs when the character had absolutely no time to do that whatsoever.

Anyone who researched story writing will tell you that good stories have foreshadowing. Meaning the author leaves subtle hints about things which you pick up on later in the manga. This story doesn't have foreshadowing, a fact which leaves the whole story feeling rather hollow.

You can however get a very real appreciation for how this manga was meant to be, and like any double A manga you can see its a high quality story line, just really REALLY terribly executed.

Same with characters. There is no backstory given to anyone. Except for a couple of tidbits about the protagonist.

The manga as a whole felt like it was made by a great mangaka who planned out what could have been a successful series with 100 issues, but then at the last minute the publishers said, "No, 16 chapters is good enough for you."

I, personally, have never read anything quite like this. It’s very creative on the author’s part.

The story begins with a flash of light. In the year 2038, downtown Tokyo experienced a large blast of light that plunged its civilization into complete chaos. Those under the range of the blast suffered complete memory loss apart from speech. Anyone carrying some form of identification was left with a name, but others like small children, were left with nothing. No memories of family, friends, home, nothing. The solution produced by the Japanese government was to create an underground facility for the victims while researching developments toward a ... cure on the surface. The identified victims could live with other affected family underground or form a “family” within a group of affected people. Those who lived in the underground community became known as Kid’z and those unaffected by the blast on the surface were known as Adults.

Pretty awesome start right?!

So enters Noa. He lives with two small children which he considers to be his family in the underground facility. Not much is ever certain about his character, personality or background wise. As a Kid’z he is intelligent, quick witted, makes friends easily, and has a profound desire to rebel against authority. There is a whole nother side to his character that you know is there but never really get to see firsthand. You get a small snippet of what he was like before his memory loss but not enough that you can truly understand his characteristics. The characters involved in his life underground shape him to be very comionate towards the other victims. He loves his brother and sister that he takes care of and enjoys the company of his friends from school. As a reader you don’t get to know much about his friends or even the children his lives with. You see how Noa interacts with them but you aren’t left with much incite on their own personality’s. Shunsuke is the leader among cops in the chase to catch the terrorist that has broken into the underground facility. Another character without much explanation. What drives his ion against Kid’z is his sister who was affected by the blast two years ago in some way. His role within the story that takes place underground is basically to function as Noa’s opposite and rival. [if you’ve ever read Death Note, L and Light relationship]

The transition between the how the government appears to function to the corrupted version is well played out. Lacking some details like the rest of the story and of course could have been done better but I liked the general concept.

The story was fast-pasted, not so much that I was annoyed with it, but enough so that you noticed how much better it could have been if there had been more detail. It is only three volumes and although it produces an interesting story, a lot of uncertainty is left.

Now I don’t really know anything on the subject but I was probably most intrigued about the theory of memory loss. I'll spare you details but I'll just say I'm a college student studying biology. I going over memory in Psychology and how it is stored in the brain. From what I understood, the location in the brain where our memories are stored isn’t known for sure and some people believe memory is stored in more than one place in the brain [on that note I was willing to over look that speech was not forgotten in Kid’z]. But how everyone’s memory was lost was never clearly explained. Since they are searching for a cure, I assumed the memories have not been completely erased from the brain but are being suppressed. Why/how? And then if memories could be restored, how do they get “put back” so to speak. It’s one of the main focuses of the story yet it’s left very vague.

I will give the author points for creating a whole underground civilization, explaining details like where they get their water, sun, air, ect.

If this was an anime it probably would have been pulled off better. Since its written, it relies more heavily on material and dialogue to create suspense/interest.

It’s a really good story that just fell short of what it could have been. Still most definitely worth the read though, I’d recommend it.

Story: 9 [story is awesome, how its told is where there are problems]
Art: 9 [great]
Character: 4 [lacks detail plus just not original]
Enjoyment: 8 [very good]
Overall: 8 [very good]

NOW DON'T MIND THAT 5. ITS THERE FOR A REASON AND THATS DUE TO IT BEING A VERY BLATANT COPY OF CODE GEASS.
This manga was a very quick manga that was very enjoyable as a read. it had a lot of details about everything and even little timelines and as the other review guy said, the ending was basically like as if the editor said...nope stop production.

Story- i would give it a 9/10 if not for the sudden OMG all in 2 chapter ending that this had. They developed it slow and well in the inital chapters until he escaped from the sanitorium with his ... "family" then it started getting faster.. not super duper but fast enough for me to notice.

Art- It uses what i call current generation manga art. you know what i mean of course. it dosen't look like Ranama 1/2 and it showed that the author and many artist helpers that drew this had a knack for tallent (just like 90% of manga out there) ...basicaklly most art will get a 9/10 from me if it's modern

Character- The characters seemed to be just dropped in and "half baked" including the main and his fiance. There isn't much if at all any development in any of them in of letting u feel deep within the man. this may also be due to it ending in 16 chapters. But they still are decent and u can just feel the man's masterpiece and kind of what he's been through..
any manga pulls this off these days however and u may be asking what's with the high scores for Art and Character if any manga could pull it off. well let me ask you this. if i rate it a 5 cuz every manga could do this then would you want to read it and think my review was bad??? yeah, manga's become manga's because they were able to come out on top of others.

Enjoyment- I'm giving it a good enjoyment score probably cuz i just finished reading it but yeah, it had a lot of what i expect from a good manga, all from action to the little bit of romance/ecchi ...and by little bit a couple pages. So yeah, even with the quick ending and the very bad endign itself i still got some enjoyment from it.

Overal-5/10 you may be looking at everything and think......fffffffffff what's going on. isn't there like a ....8 point something avg for the other 4!!??? well yeah. i would give it an 8/10 if this manga wasn't so shamelessly ripped off of code geass. now i have seen both seasons of code geass over 10 times, i'm a fan at heart. i went into reading this manga through Akumetsu(check it out) so i knew nothing of any similarites or were expecting any.... but i still saw them. the way the main character is such as genius at it all and his expression and deep past basically screams lelouch. his first two plans up to the sanitorium(that's not a spoiler) that might make u think..... uhhh ohh he's definnatley caugfht.....ooo wait..what???!! he planned it out :D yay.... then we bring his nemesis his sense of justice is the same as suzaku's and his last chapter dialogue with the main screams code geass. the last chapter WAS basically a remake of code geass. i can't write any spoilers here. so when u read the last chapter u will see. plus the "thing" in the background on page 25 in the last chapter... is that "thing" from code geass
Shamless too. i even went back to this page while reading to make sure what year this was published in...and of course...after code geass