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“Normal teen Gengo hosts alien fugitive, hunted by alien enforcer Ishtar, must coexist to survive.”
Guardian Dog
ガーディアン・ドッグ
7.06
8,694 rank · 2,702 readers · 8 favorites
Shounen
Action
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Normal teen Gengo hosts alien fugitive, hunted by alien enforcer Ishtar, must coexist to survive.
Gengo Kurosaka leads a normal life until a runaway alien called "Six-eyes" decides to take refuge in his body. From then on, Gengo becomes Ishtar's target, a beautiful alien in charge of making sure the aliens don't turn planet Earth into hunting grounds. Gengo has now to learn to coexist with his parasite to stay alive...
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
4.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
0%
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Score distribution
median 4.5
mode 4
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σ 0.50 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
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Running avg · Mar 2015 → Apr 2015
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 5 “I first started reading this manga because I saw a recommendation that said it had a similar concept to the manga parasyte (One of my all time favourite manga's to date). I don't think this manga...”
- 4 “I ought to add a bit of diversity in the review section. I think that this manga is definitely worth a try, though it goes bollocks around the 10th chapter. (Yet the chapters are long, so that...”
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Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 22 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 56m approx
- Published Jan 2004 – Oct 2005
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9822 catalog