Writing weird-ass nonsense because it’s fun to do, to see where it goes. For better or worse, Choujin X feels like this. Here’s something incredibly relatable: after finishing Ghoul and taking a break to do stuff besides sweat over comics for a few years, Ishida felt the compulsion to return to the medium he loves, and was horrified to realize he’d completely forgotten how to do it. Ishida is the creator of the massively popular manga Tokyo Ghoul. Choujin X’s chase sequence started out on, of all things, razor scooters? But once the farm girl finds a tractor and the choujin in pursuit of her teams up with a biker gang of sheep-headed cryptids, the Hideaki Sorachi zaniness began to take on a Taiyō Matsumoto flavor. She drives it through a couple apartments, through a guard rail, and into a river. Early on in Gintama, when the alien girl gets robbed and steals a police car to try to run over the thief. When I say hard turn, I mean like driving an automobile through the side of a house. I thought I was reading a somewhat rote lovers’ conflict when, with fingers curled around the syringe, Ishida drops the main story altogether and has a bicycle race. In Sui Ishida’s new manga series, a breakthrough in evil choujin technology makes body-morphing superpowers injectable. The premise of Choujin X was interesting enough, teenage best friends who are made to fight demons decide to become demons themselves. What sold me on this book was things taking a hard turn into the unexpectedly insensate.
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