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“Soldier Billy returns to quarantined hometown plagued by cannibal disease to reunite with his love.”
Astro Baby
アストロベイビー
6.51
17,736 rank · 4,648 readers · 10 favorites
Shounen
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Soldier Billy returns to quarantined hometown plagued by cannibal disease to reunite with his love.
The remote town of North Hill has been quarantined to prevent the spread of the mysterious Couper disease that is turning people into cannibals. Young soldier Billy returns to his hometown for the first time in six years for the woman he loves, but what horrors will be awaiting him...? (Source: MANGA Plus)
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Derived from 2 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.50
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Not enough recommend signal yet
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Running avg · May 2024 → Jul 2024
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Unironically one of the most funny and entertaining manga I have read in the recent times. It presents us with a fantastical city of North Hill where people have caught the cooper disease known to...”
- 7 “One of the things I enjoy about manga is the ability of a writer to imagine a completely unique and insane scenario that I couldn't have come up with on my own. The problem is, after reading a lot...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 43 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 44m approx
- Published Feb 2024 – Oct 2025
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M73420 catalog