Ajin

With Kei’s escape, Tosaki’s in deep trouble for letting that sample get away. And now, with video of what Tosaki’s organization does to captive demi-humans, other demi-humans are gathering together to strike back. Tosaki seems to have gone rogue and – of course – has deeply personal reasons for wanting to hunt down demi-humans at any cost.

Even through this volume, I’m liking Kei’s attitude. He’s not sure if helping others is worth it and he learned the hard way that just because someone offers to help you, it doesn’t mean they’re not in it for their own self-interest.

And learning more about Kei as a child makes me wonder if he will continue to be like a snowflake in a storm or take some control over his fate. I’d like to see him be more proactive.

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Now on the run, Kei seeks out others like him for protection and ends up captured. At the mercy of twisted and horrible experiments, Key may lose his mind before anyone can rescue him.

In this volume, we also learn about the Shinya Nakamura incident – an event referenced several times as to why you just don’t shoot to kill a demi-human.

Now that I’m deeper in to this, I see a lot of parallels between Ajin and Tokyo Ghoul. Both stories involve experiments on preternatural creatures that are more like torture and do more harm than good. They’re just hacking away at their subjects. Both Ken and Kei manage to teal with their transformation into something other than human pretty well, to be honest. There is a distinct lack of freaking out. But Ajin is darker, in my opinion. The characters are distinct without being tropes and the art keeps the dark, twisted tone. There is a definite sense of menace here where Tokyo Ghoul breaks it up with some levity. Ajin is fairly hopeless in comparison.

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