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Title: Big O, Vol. 5
Series: Big O #5
Author: Hitoshi Ariga
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 216
Words: 7K
Synopsis: |
We get a chapter about Norman where he shows he’s so familiar with firearms that he can fire a machine gun around a whole group of punks and not hit them once. They were in the act of trying to pull a coup but with Norman’s “demonstration” on how to use a machine gun, they’re to afraid to try. Dorothy also helps out by doing cleaning chores around the house while Norman fixes Big O.
Beck ends up making a HUGE score and becomes so rich that he buys an entire Dome. Of course, he does it through proxies so the Military Police can’t touch him. He finds a gigadeus (the equivalent of what a megadeus is to humans) that somehow gives him a LOT of memories. Big O destroys the gigadeus but it is unclear whether Beck is caught or not.
The final chapter of this volume deals with a little girl who apparently can tell people their true pasts. Crowds of people end up driving her into an icy river, where Major Dastun attempts to rescue her. He tells the crowd they killed her and then Big O shows up and takes the girl and Dastun away. The girl is alive and Dastun moralizes on looking to the future and not the past.
My Thoughts: |
My goodness, someone put this manga out of its misery, please! I feel like I’m reading this out of duty more than anything. And it is true. If I had just picked up this series without knowing about the anime, I’d have abandoned it after the 2nd volume for sure!
There is nothing of coherence here. Even the art and the battles leave me feeling baffled about what I’m supposed to be seeing or trying to get. The stories are just as bad.
One more volume and then I can ditch this. I might do a Book (un)Haul post on these, as the covers are really good looking.
★★☆☆½

I really liked the Big O anime, in fact I even have the series on dvd. (Lol, and who can forget the Queen Flash rip off opening song😊). It sounds like the manga unfortunately isn’t that good😔 Real shame, as the anime really was (at least to me) quite nice 😊
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When I watched and reviewed the anime last month, even though I had vague memories of the manga being bleh, I have to admit I had much higher hopes for this.
Sadly, blah is about the best this manga can do for me…
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Yeah, that really is a shame😔 Definitely, having fond memories of the anime, would have probably purchased this if I had ran across it at some point. Definitely not going to be doing that now😊
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And that is why I bought the manga 😀 I thought it would be at least on par with the anime. Live and learn…
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Is that two out of four and a half?
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smart ass….
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I like it! I give this 2 and three-quarters out of 4.7.
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Folks, I really don’t know this guy. Honest…
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I rate this comment as seven bananas out of two oranges.
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Man, The OrangutanLibrarian is influencing EVERYONE!!!
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I had to look that one up…Horace Worblehat is a cool name.
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Actually, I was referring to the blogger. She does all of her review ratings in bananas. I have no idea who Horace Worblehat is…
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Terry Pratchett had a orangutan librarian called Horace Worbelhat in his books….this is exactly the kind of nerdy misunderstanding that blogging is all about!
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Ahhh, yes. And the blogger took her name from that character. I didn’t realize it even had a name in the series before it became Orangutan’ized 😀
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You’re killing me hahahhaha
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7.9 out of 4/5 for this comment
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I don’t think I know this guy too… I swear…
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At this point, I don’t think ANYONE knows that guy 😉
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Welp. Good thing the series is short. You won’t ever have to revisit this one ever again now. 😀
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I’ve already got someone lined up to foist this off on 😉
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