I Am A Hero

[Traveller]

Has anyone been reading this?

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/i_am_a_hero/

The main character is a 35-year old manga assistant, who suffers from hallucinations and psychological issues. It starts as a weird slice-of-life type of story of his daily life with his girlfriend, ambitions etc. but then takes a very strange turn with

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zombie apocalypse breakout. I mean, it's hinted in the news reports in the background, but the one image where

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his girlfriend has turned into a zombie and breaks through the door

is a huge WTF - moment.

I recently caught up with the latest chapter and now am eagerly waiting for more. It's from the same guy (Kengo Hanazawa) who did Ressentiment, a manga that I also read a while back.

[Silverblade]

Ah! I do remember this one when it was just beginning its publishing. However, at that time no scanlations were made, so I forgot about this manga. Although, I have heard it became really good and had good sales.

With 20+ chapters released, this is a must read.

[The Beast]

I wouldn't say I Am A Hero is incredible, or the epitome of my tastes or anything, but it is basically a lot of things I really look for and enjoy in manga and what makes the seinen demographic so appealing to begin with.

I was enjoying it from the getgo, but its "crazy" twist you mentioned basically ensnared it on my interests for at least a good while just to see where everything winds up.

Most impressive was the horror angle is actually pretty well done.

[stephen]

Ahh, someone translated this? Good stuff. Hanazawa's on some good shit.

[No Maam]

So wat did the guy do with his significant other after that whole incident ?

[Traveller]

So wat did the guy do with his significant other after that whole incident ?

He just left her there after

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cutting her head off

I guess, since he was on his way to turn himself in.

I hope he brings out shotgun skills in the next volume.

[Traveller]

Volume 3 just got uploaded into Mangafox. A big thanks to everyone involved, can't wait to read how the story continues from here.

[THE SEA]

I am rather fond of this manga.

[Jacko]

I've read all 34 chapters and its really good. I would like to know on which drugs the mangaka is.

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zombies that run fast are the worst

[Tony Tony Chopper]

Looks great. About to read.

[Gokuyuske]

This is really enjoyable so far. Thanks for posting it.

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I love the clues that get dropped about what is going to happen

[dirt monkey AL]

DAMN IT

Why'd you make me read this when there's only three volumes out, and now months to wait for the next volume to come out (since they seem to only be doing entire volumes)?

[BigLuffy559]

Volume 4 is out.

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That was kind of a crazy volume. Those zombies are pretty scarey. They reminded me of Silent Hill a little bit. Hideo got bit by Hayakari in the same place that his girlfriend bit him. I bet he is eventually going to get bit for real, but die in a heroic way.

The zombies not being completely mindless is kind of different from what I am used to. It kind of makes things more disturbing when they actually have to be killed. Hideo is obviously still haunted by having to "kill" his girlfriend and wondering "are they dead or not?" probably makes things that much harder.

[Aohige_AP]

I enjoyed Ressentiment, but dropped this long ago.
I don't like having nightmares.

[Bucephalus]

Been waiting anxiously for Volume 4 since December of last year.
Great volume. The girl really balances out Hideo's character, and it's pretty great to see how flawed Hideo himself is.

I can't help but wonder where the series will go. It seems like everything and anything is fucked to high hell. At a certain point they've got to stop running and find some sort of safe haven, which I'm sure exists somewhere.

Hope that someone starts to scan this shit regularly though... six months is too fucking long to wait for a new volume.

[BigLuffy559]

I definitely enjoyed having a character for Hideo to play off of. I liked all that psychological stuff that was going on in his head when he was alone too, but having another human to interact with is nice. I just hope she doesn't die really quick.

[Traveller]

Now I gotta catch up on both Ressentiment and this one. There goes my afternoon!

[edit] Read the final chapters of Ressentiment. I loved the identity of "Ehara", although the ending was a bit anti-climatic.

[editx2] I like Andymori, 9mm, and Asian Kung-Fu Generation too!

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also loved the reaction of the hanged zombie had for his family picture.

[projectelf]

I just read the entire thing. It's kinda different from the usual zombie apocalypse thing, but definitely interesting. But the first few pages with those heads from nowhere were seriously scary as shit.

[Bucephalus]

Something I didn't really get is the scene with those assholes in the car. Did they stop again (making it easy for the zombies to devour them)? Or were they just gradually accelerating away at such a speed that the zombies could catch up? I sure as hell hope they weren't driving away a decent speed because you're pretty much fucked when you have zombies capable of moving faster than a moving car.

Also I doubt the girl will die in the foreseeable future. I feel like the end of the series will either be 1) the zombie disease just spontaneously disappears, leaving Hideo and the rest to pick up the pieces, 2) Hideo and his companions help find a cure (though this one's pretty dopey and overused), or 3) Hideo sacrifices himself in the last few chapters in order to save a lot of people. But I'm sure it'll be something different. Kengo's a pretty unique author, as seen alone in his approach of a zombie apocalypse.

[Glowstuff]

Interesting, just started reading yesterday.

Is that an accurate description of some of the things mangaka go through? If so, Kubo must be one of the ones using manga as a stepping stone...