“Two traumatized girls survive post-war Tokyo in a tank, battling undead, hunger, and their own crumbling sanity.”
Velveteen & Mandala
べっちんとまんだら
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Synopsis
Two traumatized girls survive post-war Tokyo in a tank, battling undead, hunger, and their own crumbling sanity.
Tokyo has fallen into a post-apocalyptic state, ravaged by war. On the outskirts of the capital, two girls have taken residence in an abandoned military tank at a dry riverbed in the Suginami Ward. Mandara Legrand, who speaks like a broken tape recorder, lives alongside Becchin, a paranoid girl who deals with hallucinations of her life before the war took her world away. Left to fend for themselves, there is no one left in the war-torn town that can help them survive the aftermath of destruction. Alone, they combat the undead, hunger, and boredom with what little supplies can be scavenged from the wreckage of the capital. The two girls struggle not only against their surroundings, but with their own sanity—as they work together to stay alive in the deteriorating pastoral countryside.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.04 · split reception
4.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 4.0
↑ 1.78
Running avg · Jun 2012 → Jan 2022
- 10 “This story got me wrapped around its dirty little fingers. I don't know how and why, but as I continue to read each part... I feel as if I'm being dragged somewhere darker and surreal. I couldn't...”
- 8 “Velveteen & Mandala is absolutely messed up to it's core but in the right way. It feels like a B Grade Japanese Psychological Experimental film more than a conventional seinen manga. The art is a...”
- 7 “It happens again. I think that I’ve already read enough of Jiro Matsumoto and I am completely desensitized, then I pick something by him up and it gets to me. Damn you, Jiro Matsumoto, I am...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 14 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 52m approx
- Published Jul 2007 – Sep 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M11624 catalog