With a premise that recalls Battle Angel Alita and kinetic battles reminiscent of Attack on Titan, Gachiakuta is a must-read for fans of dark, dystopian fantasies like Deadman Wonderland! Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and ifmore
While personally I doubt that Gachiakuta is going to become the next big thing shonen-wise, as there are many series in a similar style, and being a Weekly Shonen Magazine title it has a disadvantage in terms of profile, compared to series in Shonen Jump, it is a series that clearly has a lot of potential. It has already reached ten print volumes in Japan during its two-year-run, and it will be interesting to see how the story unfolds. Read Full Review
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