When we look manga and anime to start new series, we find very often plots, characters and drawing styles that appear to be very childlike, happy and lively, and surprise us with a complex incredibly background, deeper issues and very well treated, and mature characters .
Dimension W is the opposite case. Completely.
This is a manga by Yuji Iwahara a mangaka well known for his work King of Thorn , and have been the cartoonist for the sleeve Darker than Black . Dimension W es most recent work he still ongoing. Serialize began in 2011 and Norma Editorial brought to Spain in 2016, with an issue that has surprise: the covers glow in the dark! Very appropriate to the theme of manga and spot colors, contrasted and brighter than the author usually used in the cover of it:
We are presented with a futuristic world, he begins to talk about the dream of Nikola Tesla and how he wanted to get use electricity wirelessly. In the future it is discovered that there is a fourth dimension, which called Dimension W. Then the world system is created with which, through devices called coils , you can remove the boundless energy that dimension. Professor Yurizaki, creator of the coils and founder of a company called Tesla, which controls all related technology, disappears after the murder of his family when another corporation trying to do with the secrets of his investigations. Meanwhile, it has generated a whole market around illegal coils, pursued by New Tesla so that only authorized officers and registered coils are used.
The manga begins when Kyoma, a collector of illegal coils who refuses to use technology in any way, meets Look, a girl robot seems too human. Just then, New Tesla finds Professor Yurizaki. This, moments before his death, activates a special mechanism that disables all nearby coils.
Look loses consciousness for a while but then wake up again, she explains that her father her her, Professor Yurizaki, he scheduled a mission: to find the source of illegal coils to find the way it her. Fascinated by technology Mira and she can hide or be associated with incidents of the past, the top of Kyoma decides to assign it as her companion gatherer.
Along with other characters who know later, we discover about the past of Kyoma and why he refuses to use the technology of the coils, what actually looks, and what are the numbers , a key coils special to them They will help you find the origin of the pirate coils.
Iwahara as highlighted by the typical cinematic form American cinema, and not so much of the manga, in which he designs the scenes of the works of him. Certain angles and approaches that bring dynamism any action scene. All spiced up with a style of thick lines and shading very manual in which all detailed in black and barely uses frames. Textures, shadows, lines are drawn one by one and provides a very unique style : is clean to having black and white as pure, dirty and once when absolutely everything are lattices as manuals and imperfect ( frames are used to seeing sleeve digitally, for example, mimics hand, which makes that they are not all perfectly parallel and the same thickness) lines.
The atmosphere and Dimension W world has a lot of detail (detailed mechanical parts even the screws), as well as a variety of characters with all sorts of features, variety of races, bodies ... more and obese women as head of the protagonists? Well.
The problem is that there is more. The two other girls who appear importance are ... toys. No character seems a ... character.
And the dilemma Dimension W is that the premise and general appearance are ten, but the execution leaves much to be desired. The summary of the story suggests that we find a serious, futurist and science fiction plot with dark touches and interesting topics. What makes human Mira? What makes a robot? How should treat all those ... things that seem to have human conscience but are not outside?
Instead, Mira is kicked, thrown to the ground, tied, abducted (and exposed to the reader like a sleeve bondage concerned). Trafficking Kyoma wrong with the excuse of junk art and she never defends, which is a clear message from the manga. She is obedient and very cute! It is responsible for teaching us how adorable he is all the time. a tear when thrown to the ground while asking please some pity, of course focused angles to always see it from under her skirt What just spend a whole chapter in a bath towel?
Despite supposedly having a supernatural force because it is a robot, it never does anything. And when he does, he does it out of scene, while Kyoma looks struggling. Those action scenes are a delight of reading, yes.
This would not result in annoying if not constantly interrupted the plot, whose progress is so non-existent, unconcerned and without rhythm. What was New Tesla and why there have been several chapters in which nothing is known about that important character who appeared two volumes ago?
It is a pity, because he could have treated such a seemingly complete world so well. There is as much material to explore, and everything is left stroke while we see that the story is not decided between what you want to be. A constant advance is not necessary, but it is a certain sense that history goes to some point. It is not even saved if we consider it as a plot divided into arcs, because most are such random and distant thematic both of the main characters, as of the important facts, that they do not even contribute to the main story.
It is an entertaining sleeve, from which you definitely learn a lot of drawing and design of characters : The strengths of Iwahara. The variety is impressive and There are not two equal characters , all are very characteristic and their personalities very different. Each one seems to have his agenda ... Although they do not really have it, and their personal motivations we end up discovering that they are, mostly, tremendously immature for a premise that seems more of a history and mature characters.
For those who know this author, possibly already come ready to read dimension w knowing that the stories of him begin with very large concepts that never just been of all explored. As in this case it is not yet complete, I still have volumes to surprise us with a great ending , but given the course without any apparent direction that it carries for now, I doubt it is the case.
The volumes are precious on the shelf when they shine when the light is turned off. And it is a pleasure to read it by the drawing, e x-pressure and dynamism that it has on its pages. Unfortunately, the most potential characters always seem to be the secondary ones, since the main two never grow, and it is difficult to enjoy their relationship when ... it is based practically on the comical abuse of him, a mallet Damaged by something in your past, towards her, a girl so obedient who will do everything you need to look like a perfect human. And if it fails, that at least it is kawaii. This improves very slightly with the advance of the volumes ... but as by then we have practically forgotten what I was going first, it is a bit confusing.
Although one continues to read by inertia because it is always good to see adventures well drawn in such a detailed world, with hope that at some point retakes the story.
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