Monday, 17 December 2012

Zetman by: Masakazu Katsura


Zetman is a manga series by Masakazu Katsura, it started out as one of the mini series in The Weekly Young Jump magazine. Then as it when on it be came more popular and got its own anime and manga series.

The story of Zetman starts off with talking about how there is an underground fight club found by the Amagi Corporation, where rich people pay to watch mutated monster fight to their death. It start out fine until one of the monster which is a wolf started to rebel and jumps to the viewing stand and kill everyone that is inside. That's where are main character Jin Kanzaki comes in, he was born when the place is falling apart he is the first mutated monster that's a human and can turn into a superhuman call Zet. His destiny is to eliminate all the mutated monsters that escaped the place.

After Jin grew up to an kid the first major event that he faced is his "grandfather", but is actually the scientist that saved him, then he got killed by one of the mutated monster. Then he meets Akemi Kawakami who lost her son and her husband, she took Jin in and treated him like it was her own son. On one night where Jin and Akemi were walking home from the supermarket Akemi got her face slash by one of the mutated monster that goes after Jin. Then Jin turn in to a incomplete form of Zet and killed the mutated monster. After Jin grew up to an adult he kept his duty to eliminate all the mutated monster, on one of the day he was on duty he meets Kouga Amagi his old friend who he goes around with when he was little to help other people.


After a few fights between Jin and mutated monsters, he was offer by the chairman Kouga's grandfather to help him to get to Zet's final form so that he can eliminate the mutated wolf monster which is the head of the rebel. Then Jin accepted the offer, but before he can go to train to get to Zet's final form he have to leave his present life. Which means he have to write a fake letter to Akemi saying he have found his parents and went on to live his life with them. Kouga on the other hand cant turn into any superhuman, but he do have the technology to build a super armor call Alphasz. The name comes from cartoon that Kouga watched when he was little. In one of the fight between Zet and the mutated monster he meets Alphasz, later on Zet found out that Alphasz is Kouga. Then Kouga ask Zet if he can help him on his quest to eliminate all the mutated monsters, Zet accepted the request then they went on and eliminate the mutated monsters.      

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Sword Art Online by: Kawahara Reki

Sword Art Online is a manga that is set in the future where virtual reality massive multiplayer online role-playing games are the most popular. Instead of using console they use a virtual reality helmet call Nerve Gear that simulates the five sense of the player through its brain, so that they can experience and have full control of their in-game character.  

On Nov 6, 2022, the day where Sword Art Online launches and three thousand players logged on to the game. After a few hours of the game launches players start to realize that there isn't a log out button, then all the players got teleported to the "beginning town" by one of the Gm (game master). The game master that teleported everyone, his name is Kayaba Akihiko the creator of Sword Art Online and also one of the designer for Nerve Gear. He announce that in order to log off the game u have to beat all 100 floors and in the process if you die in-game u will also die in real life. Also if someone tries to unplug the Nerve Gear from outside the person that is wearing it will be dead instantly by a micro-wave that sends from the Nerve Gear. Our protagonist Kirito, who is a skilled gamer and he is determined to beat the game. In the process of beating the game, Kirito made friends with a female player name Asuna and eventually falls in love with her. After knowing Kayaba from the fight between Kirito and Asuna's guild master, Kirito decided to reveal Kayaba identity after the second to last boss fight. When that finished the boss fight Kirito reveals who Kayaba in-game character is, then Kayaba challenges him to a duel and Kirito won and free himself and everyone else.