Alive 1: The Final Evolution

by Tadashi Kawashima and Adachitoka

Book Overview

SUICIDE VIRUS A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicideand becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345497465
• ISBN13: 9780345497468
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.7" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Ok in general

The book wasnt clean

great premise

Kano Taisuke goes to the same high school his older sister works at. Their parents are dead and she has taken over as his sole guardian. One day, among a weird weather change, Kano starts to feel strange vibrations and then something stranger and much more disturbing occurs... Kano sees a girl commit suicide in front of him....In fact, she almost takes him out committing suicide. Before long the whole world has people committing mass suicides, Kano's best friend is in jail for questioning, and a creepy guy appears from no where to torment Kano. What is going on? This series has such a bizarre concept. In a way it reminds me of "Death Note" quite a bit. It's bizarre, but it has promise... did I mention it is bizarre? I do want to read more. It's such a great premise... a suicide virus? Wow. What depth could this series have?

Better than I imagined!

When I originally read the description, I thought that this would be a deep, introspective manga. I thought it would be a kind of commentary on the supposed pandemic of suicide Japan faced with its youth. Then when I picked it up, I had reservations. The art was very shonen, and it seemed gorier than I would have expected. It seemed that the focus would be on the violence and brutality of the suicide virus. However, upon reading it, I was pleasantly suprised. It's more in the vein of Dragon Eye or Gin Tama. While taking on a serious subject, it maintains a light touch and a sense of humor that I deeply appreciated. Honestly, I can't rave enough about it, because it covered such a broad spectrum of genres, and it did it well.