Feb 4, 2025
I liked this, it was a fresh concept from people outside Japan, Rafal Jaki who worked on Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Machine Gamu who is anonymous so I don't know much about them. So good on Jump for taking a detour to non-Japanese authors, but shame on them due to cancelling the series.
I think I agree with everyone's comment that this world's powersystem is beautifully unique as you get your powers from the name you're given (ursa/ursula variations gives you bear powers, ralf gave wolf powers, etc). Even those characters with the same names or similar names would have a different application or manifestation of the
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powers- do you control a ghostly beast or do you become the beast you are named after. This resulted in some fun fights and choreography. Everything positive to say about this aspect of the manga, beautiful artwork, cool composition, fun concepts. But yet again this story was cut short.
The main characters are a part of the Nordic Naming Bureau and they monitor the use of people's powers. A decent number of people in the world are unnamed and this causes specific problems within families leading to mistreatment, abandonment, and strange conspiracies. The world is huge and would have garnered many stories and many themes but given only 14-ish chapters (first ones are pretty long), it was not given a possibility to cook long enough.
From the story we have, the story introduced underground fighting scenes, betrayals in the bureau, the possibility of corrupt politicians swaying public opinion, cover-ups about secret programs involving nameless children. It's a lot of concept, a lot of promise, but less cohesion that I would have liked because there was so much up in the air and you could see the main characters are about to go through some growth and engage in some deep revelations about their past but nothing results from this as the series just... ends.
As the author's note says in the final moments and in the comments section of the shonen plus app, see you soon. The author and artist have proved that they are capable of catching people's eye, whether they keep our attention remains to be seen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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