Notes : Story : 8 Art : 7 Character : 9 Enjoyment : 9 Overall : 8 No guns life is a manga by Tasuku Karasuma telling us the story of Juzo Inui, a "Gun Slave Unit", basicly a man with a gun instead of his head (and some more abilities, but I won't spoil here ;) ). Juzo used to be a soldier during a 50-year great war, and now he's investigating on affairs including extends : humans with mehanic parts increasing their physical abilities. One of the greatest qualities of this manga is the universe, with complex and barely legal relationshipsbetween the different authorities of this post-apocalyptic world. We feel the will to make it change and the powerlessness of the protagonists in front of the mysterious people who call the shots we learn to know little by little.

The plot itself, including the characters, might be hard to get at the first reading, I fully enjoyed the story after a second reading of the five first volumes when the sixth came out in France, but when I finished reading all the published books, I felt a little despaired of being forced to wait eight months to get the seventh one... All to tell that the story is really intense.

Let's now talk about the fights and action scenes. We here have a real seinen with lots of blood, and cut limbs. However, at the first reading, those fights looked as much like a flow as like a quality : I really enjoyed the badass Juzo and his opponents, but I hardly understood the action because of the special style of Karasuma(-sensei).

In fact, No Guns Life's art is really peculiar : at the first sight, it looks at the middle point between a sketch and a finished drawing, but I really like this drawing style and think it reinforces the dark and brutal atmosphere of the story.

Finally, I really enjoyed this manga, and would recommand it to anyone who like seinen, violent fights, power struggles, and post-apocalyptic worlds. As one of the first mangas I've read, I might be overrating it, but I hope I'm not and it's really worth the value I give it.