To be honest, no. Never read it, though the name rings a bell.
The part about the main character not actualy being a real person, but a sort of unknowing yet sapient construct of an actual person was partialy inspired by Dorohedoro and vague recollection of at least one other anime/manga with such a type of reveal. So it's no suprise if there are more.
After all it makes for a "good" existencial crisis story for a lead character to overcome.
As for the part about spending 12 issues on a flashback related to a long dead or just revealed character, One Piece and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (Volume 6 and 7) came to my mind for that.
Soooo this seems like a regression from the Ultimate X-Men 22 years ago:/
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Looks like Marvel just wanted an Indy like comic to attract new readers. This is not X-Men. Even for an AU. Its like the creator wanted to make their comic but couldn't and wrote this for Marvel and just put the X-Men stamp on it.
I just wished Marvel allowed Peach to just continue to play in her Momokoverse (aka Demon Days/Wars), instead of this. DD/DW is so detached from canon, and she was smart in mixing Japanese folklore/mythology with Marvel characters and stories, that she can do whatever she wants. And everything of that saga so far is wonderful. I just wished we got more. I want to know how Sai and Logan met, and see all the other mutants introduced.
First Warren in Dark X-Men #1, and then Genis-Vell in Captain Marvel #1. Seriously, Marvel?!
Avatar reflecting my mood. I couldn't stand the sunny high-flying Angel one anymore.
Agreed. For me, it’s not just that it feels so divorced from X-Men even for an AU take, it feels completely divorced from the entire New Ultimate line as well. It feels more like it would fit more with her Momokoverse than with this line. Even looking at the upcoming solicits isn’t really making me any more interested. The X-line is some of the most diverse in Marvel and by issue 4, the characters are all just a bunch of Japanese schoolgirls. I know it’s set in Japan but a little variety would be nice.
From what I see so far, Ultimate Spider-Man is a soap full of white people, Ultimates is also full of white people, and Ultimate Black Panther seems to be 100% black people.
So I don't see any book being more diverse than the others.
At least one of them doesn't have the same characters who are already getting plenty of spotlights in 616.
Bringing back the old, killing the young: that's the Marvel way
I guess diversity can also look like there being different things that feature all one group of people, as long as it’s not always white men, but when ethnically streamed super teams happen a lot it can’t help but start to resemble crypto-fascism. What’s the message - that the races and genders shouldn’t mix?
That’s a disingenuous argument and you know it. Last I checked, Black Panther is known for taking place in Africa in a nation that’s closed off to the rest of the world and Spider-Man is a solo title whose lead character that the majority of the spotlight is on is White. X-Men is a team series that features characters of all shapes, sizes and races not a singular one. And before you say that it’s Japan so of course they’d be Asian, while the vast majority of Japan’s population are Asian, there are still people of other races that have come to live there. Heck if the covers are to be believed, even Rogue is going to be made Asian in this book rather than introducing characters of other races into the cast of X-Men.
I just can't with this this isn't X-men its just not no Xavier no mansion no Magneto no 05 none of the classic characters we know its just a manga wannabe that wants to call itself "X-men"