Zero (manga)

Details concerning its publication

Published in French with the editions Taifu Comics in June 2005, this manga comprises one volume and the series is finished. There also exists out of box with the manga Déviances of the same author.

In Japan, the series was prépubliée in the magazine Comic Burger of the Scholar editions between February and April 1995, at a rate of a chapter per month. It then left in volume connected on April 27th, 1995 at Scholar, before being republished in 1999 at Sony, then in 2002 at Gentosha. It should be noted that these two last editions profit from a cover different from the first.

Complete summary of the history

The history starts when Kugimachi penetrates in the room where the general meeting takes place itself of her college. It finds all the dead participants of asphyxiation, except for Mao, that which all killed them. Return 2 months to include/understand behind what occurred. At this time, Mao was still a high-school girl made two months before, after being left a center for juvenile delinquents (it is told that it would have been mingled with a business with wound to the knife). A little marginal, it nevertheless had ended up being made some friends. But Kugimachi knew them and knew mingled them with equivocal businesses. Moreover, they entrusted to Mao a doubtful work (consisting in playing the deliverymen for Yakuza) and which could be dangerous for them. Unfortunately for it, the police force caught it in the act and, partly because of its liability, Mao school was returned. So today it killed everyone, it is to be avenged for this college that it hates.

Having completely barricaded the college, it launches to the continuation of Kugimachi two small robots adulterated to transform them into weapons mortals. This one flees then in the corridors of the establishment, where it finds Yashiro (one of his/her comrades) then Sakazume (the president of the association of the pupils). Together, they try to escape the robots killers, but Mao observes them via the surveillance cameras and the robots are coriaces. Yashiro then Sakazume end up being made kill, and Kugimachi finds Mao in a classroom. Decided to die since the beginning, Mao commits suicide with the saber which Kugimachi had seized, after having reopened one of the exits. While Kugimachi carries its corpse outside, the college explodes behind him, completing the work of destruction that Mao had undertaken.

External bonds

Card of the editor
the Mangavoraces chronicles of this title
the Jade chronicle on Krinein

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