HISA MASATO

 

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Hitomu is a young guy with no goals or dreams: he goes to work, comes home, sleeps, and repeats. That changes when he’s abducted by a god and forced to participate in a gladiatorial tournament to find the weakest being in all of space and time! After Hitomu loses repeatedly, he’s set against four weakling opponents to fight to the death…but he instead finds a way to escape, breaking out his fellow “losers”: a ghost boy, a slime girl, a useless robot, and a bug monster. Now fugitives on a hostile planet, the five weirdos must rely on each other. Alone they can’t do squat, but together they just might be able to survive.

One of the Japanese promos calls it "Da Vinci Code meets Jurassic Park".I think that sums it up pretty nicely. It's got dinosaurs, spies, intrigue, action, and conspiracy, all rendered in lovely film noir-esque art with a little fan service cherry on top (Lily!).And for the slightly geeky, it's got cool (and sometimes obscure) references to art, literature, film, history, science... you name it. Definitely a manga for adults!

Year 20XX, strange phenomena started to occur all around Japan. The best way to explain it would be a ''hole'' that connects different worlds to our world. Many otherworldly beings - magicians, demons, robots and other fantasy creatures started to appear on this side, with no way to return. With the time passing, Japan was able to adapt to this event and visitors from another world stopped to be anything unusual. And so, an unlucky witch named Henrietta was pulled through the ''hole'' and ended in modern day Japan without a way to return. How will she be able to live in this different world?

Hisa Masato's debut work: A black bear works for the mafia.