“Shibuya 2008: reclusive student Takumi uncovers New Generation murders after receiving gruesome images from mysterious online figure Shōgun.”
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Synopsis
Shibuya 2008: reclusive student Takumi uncovers New Generation murders after receiving gruesome images from mysterious online figure Shōgun.
The series is set in the year of 2008 in Shibuya and is centered around Takumi Nishijou, a high school student at the private Suimei Academy, and some strange events that have occurred recently in the Shibuya area. Two events have occurred so far and is being referenced by the media and the public at large as being New Generation events. The first event named "Group Dive" occurred on September 7th with five high school students jumping to their deaths off of a high tower. The second event occurred on September 19th wherein a male was found dead with a thirty-two week old fetus incised within his abdomen. The story begins on September 28th with Takumi talking to an online friend named Grim. Grim has to provide Takumi with the background about the recent New Generation events since Takumi is not interested local or international news. A person named Shōgun joins the chatroom though he does not say a word until Grim has left the chatroom. Shōgun confronts Takumi and presents him with a barrage of image links that depicts a very gruesome murder. The next day, as Takumi was heading home after spending the afternoon at an Internet cafe, he comes across the same scene that he witnessed yesterday in Shōgun's pictures. He runs away from the crime scene screaming, but not before meeting a pink-haired girl there covered in blood and wearing Suimei Academy's uniform. The story progresses from here with Takumi trying to avoid getting involved with Shōgun and other New Generation events as he is slowly caught in a grander scheme's wheels of motion.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Aug 2013 → Feb 2023
- 3 “Story 3/10 This manga is not worth reading as the story in the manga is bearable then bam comes the ending......or lack of one Art 5/10 The art well lets just say it's average and move on...”
- 2 “Story 3/10: It had a promising plot but they just failed to properly execute it. They tried to do to much in 11 chapters.If it were a little bit longer, it wouldn't be this bad. Art 3/10 The manga...”
- 5 “The manga adaptation is by default not great for having to cram a 40-hour long game into the span of a single volume but somehow, it's still significantly better than the nightmare of an anime...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 11 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 28m approx
- Published Aug 2008 – May 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5453 catalog