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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
Fool night | Chapter 122
https://weebcentral.com/chapters/01M3CYDJ0FFKEB02W8TQAZ762S
So I got impatent and check out the manga after seeing the anime trailer, and now I've gone from mildly curious to highly anticipated. Potential contender for AotY for me.
Set in a future where the sky has been entirely blocked of sunlight and all natural plant life has gone extinct. In order to maintain the oxygen supply for life to function, the world relies on a technolgy that gradually turned humans into plants (who may or may not loose their consciousness after the fact). For ethical reason, the procedure is permitted only for those who are already going to die, who then also received a sum of money to enjoy their last days. However, reality is anyone struggling financially routinely fake their conditions to apply, and the authorities turns a blind eye to it.
Basically, this is a world where poor people can only survive by giving themselves a terminal illness, and society relies on a system of human sacrifice to function. It's a pretty bleak setting and the plot is fairly realistic. The MC has a small superpower but it's pretty limited. There're fighting but the primary action is information warfare. Somehow the author created an arc about the HR department and that was one of the most tense I've felt reading a manga.
Political thriller x philosophical dilemma. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell except without the mind trips.
~ manga corner ~