Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition

Amazing hardcover and a good tasting ground to see if you like this artist style Story is hard to decipher but is ment to be left for interpretation if you like amazing art to tell a story over words this is definitely the manga to read

Didn't get much of the story but loved seeing Nihei artwork improvement in this compared to he's early works very dark, detailed and beautiful.

Really enjoyed Abara art is great and the way Tsutomu Nihei uses little dialouge and just the art to tell the story is brilliant .

If you like this author's other works such as Blame! Or Knight of Sidonia, you should totally get this just to add to the collection. Its a very well-packaged deluxe edition hardcover, and you can see some of the writer's early ideas that he would later on develop into full-fledged long manga series. The art is very cool, the story is not very well-written but this was early days for Tsutomu Nihei.

Awesome !

Love Tsutomu's art work? If so this is a must buy, nice hardcover and sown spine.

Fantastic artwork, as to be expected of Tsutomu Nihei.

good cover, good art, the hell was going on in it? This is faster paced than a heartbeat after popping 20 eckies at a rave.

How do I put this while avoiding spoilers? It seems like, after BLAME!, Nihei took a couple of reference points to sketch-out his next long[-er] series: * he knew what his strengths were; * he wanted to branch out from them & grow; and, * he wanted to do all sorts of anime-ass-kicking that hadn’t *QUITE* fit in BLAME!. He nailed it. ABARA (which I literally just sped through a 2nd reading of) is called out as having a confusing story because there are a few competing organizations (cops, scientific, para-military, shadow-society, etc.) that are never completely explained, and the ending doesn’t adhere to the preconceived Western framework of what constitutes a “story.” In fact, ABARA has all the information you need in order to understand everything you need to, as what Nihei found his way to, and thoroughly followed through in the execution of, given his [above-listed & obviously reviewer-surmised] goals for ABARA, is almost more along the lines of a cyberpunk/police-thriller/seinen-battle-manga FAIRY TALE... — with a psychedelic ending that would make Watchmen jealous! The story follows a number of people whose [battle-manga/superhero-style] abilities/interests are tied into a worldbuilding element that both gives them their powers, but is also, when left to run out of control, a threat to the survival of an already-post-apocalyptic humanity. Each “interested” character has a personal connection with a “powered” character, but these are awesome, tense, plot-propulsive relatonships that play out in tense glances & remembered feelings, not that awkward superhero-sidekick nonsense. There’s even the pure, unadulterated CREATIVITY of introducing a few not-exactly-human characters, with more than a dash of humor to them, and still using them as & insisting the reader treat them as Perfectly Serious Characters. Nihei, firing on all cylinders! I really wanted to get through a 2nd read-through & come back here with enough to say to write a positive review, because the idea that this isn’t a fully-formed & realized Nihei work is just preposterous, and can only be missing the point of what the artist tried, and succeeded in achieving, with this series!

Perfect

5 stars. It arrived quickly, undamaged; no scuffs, dents, creases, nothing. The book is amazing, both in writting and material. Good quality paper for the cover and pages. Coloured pictures that open up bigger (pull out I think it's called) add to the visuals, they're made of glossy paper print. Its a fantastic piece to have added to my bookshelf. Definately one of those books I can re-read for fun because of its interesting and compelling story. I highly recommend this to people who enjoy things like Hellsing, Berserk, Junji-Ito's work, or Higurashi.

Excelent packaging superb book

Llegó rápido y en excelentes condiciones. Otra increíble obra del maestro Nihei, con un arte brutal como siempre; muy recomendada si eres fan. También cabe aclarar que no es necesario tener un nivel alto de inglés, o por el contrario, si no sabes nada de inglés, con un traductor podrás leer cómodamente esta obra.