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Big Order Omnibus #1
Big Order Omnibus, Vol. 1
When Eiji Hoshimiya was asked his heart's desire, the young boy could never have predicted the catastrophic consequences. Ten years after the "Great Destruction," the world has been reshaped with gifted individuals called "Orders" emerging, people capable to reshaping reality to their whims.
When some of these Orders start hunting Eiji, though will he have to summon the power that nearly destroyed the world?
When some of these Orders start hunting Eiji, though will he have to summon the power that nearly destroyed the world?
- GenresMangaFantasyYoung Adult
394 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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October 10, 2019
It has been ten years since the woman called Daisy first appeared. Like a genie, she finds a person and grants them one wish. The wish then grants that person a superpower called an Order to fulfill the wish. Daisy is no automaton, and she can interpret the same wish in different ways as she pleases. Naturally, creating Order Users has caused mass social disruption, starting with her first wisher, Eiji Hoshimiya. His wish supposedly destroyed the world!
Mind, the world wasn’t so much destroyed as it was severely shaken up with massive earthquake events, including rendering Tokyo near-uninhabitable. Eiji and his terminally ill little sister Sena were moved to a small city in Kyushu, and the traumatized boy decided never to use his Order again. Daisy is so disappointed that ten years later, she tells Eiji that his wish was not to destroy the world.
But it’s not until attractive exchange student Rin Kurenai turns out to be an assassin bent on murdering him for revenge that Eiji finally remembers what his actual wish was and how his Order is meant to work.
Having resolved that issue, it is revealed that Rin’s actual mission which she abandoned was to befriend Eiji to spy on him for the Ten, the group of Order Users who run the local government. Soon, they’ve used a combination of extortion and a promise to find someone who can cure Sena to make Eiji the figurehead of their attempt to take over the world!
This is a shounen (boys’) battle manga, where people with various weird powers attempt to use them creatively to overcome other people with weird powers. The author’s previous series, Future Diary, did the same thing with various subdivisions of the power of precognition, but here, no power is off the table.
Good: Nifty powers, and some twisty battles. Rin’s regenerative abilities make for some slapstick dark comedy. In the first large volume here, it’s made clear that not everything Eiji believes about the past is true, making for interesting revelations.
Less good: The treatment of female characters is kind of iffy as a group; individually there are Watsonian reasons why each has an unhealthy interest in Eiji, but it gets creepy when you put them together. There’s also enough male-oriented fanservice to earn this volume a “mature” rating.
Rock God in particular comes across weird, as her “sexy” persona and impractical outfit clash with her sad backstory and origin of her powers.
The setup could go in any number of directions, so if you enjoy battle manga with fanservice, this might be the series for you.
Mind, the world wasn’t so much destroyed as it was severely shaken up with massive earthquake events, including rendering Tokyo near-uninhabitable. Eiji and his terminally ill little sister Sena were moved to a small city in Kyushu, and the traumatized boy decided never to use his Order again. Daisy is so disappointed that ten years later, she tells Eiji that his wish was not to destroy the world.
But it’s not until attractive exchange student Rin Kurenai turns out to be an assassin bent on murdering him for revenge that Eiji finally remembers what his actual wish was and how his Order is meant to work.
Having resolved that issue, it is revealed that Rin’s actual mission which she abandoned was to befriend Eiji to spy on him for the Ten, the group of Order Users who run the local government. Soon, they’ve used a combination of extortion and a promise to find someone who can cure Sena to make Eiji the figurehead of their attempt to take over the world!
This is a shounen (boys’) battle manga, where people with various weird powers attempt to use them creatively to overcome other people with weird powers. The author’s previous series, Future Diary, did the same thing with various subdivisions of the power of precognition, but here, no power is off the table.
Good: Nifty powers, and some twisty battles. Rin’s regenerative abilities make for some slapstick dark comedy. In the first large volume here, it’s made clear that not everything Eiji believes about the past is true, making for interesting revelations.
Less good: The treatment of female characters is kind of iffy as a group; individually there are Watsonian reasons why each has an unhealthy interest in Eiji, but it gets creepy when you put them together. There’s also enough male-oriented fanservice to earn this volume a “mature” rating.
Rock God in particular comes across weird, as her “sexy” persona and impractical outfit clash with her sad backstory and origin of her powers.
The setup could go in any number of directions, so if you enjoy battle manga with fanservice, this might be the series for you.
June 15, 2017
Big Order features a nice amount of random actions that make no sense yet is actually amazing to read. Sadly, it also features an assortment of narrative issues that fails to help me engage with its story, or its characters.
In short, I think Big Order can be quite good, but also holds itself back with everything else aside from Rin.
Eiji Hoshimiya is an “Order” — a person who had a wish, and received an ability coinciding with it. His wish as a kid was to destroy the world. Instead, he got his parents and hundreds of others killed, and allowed many more people to potentially become an Order. When Daisy, the one who gave him his ability, questions the wish he made as a child, Eiji wonders what his wish was as he lives a lackadaisical life going to and from school. Before he can get that solved, he ends up meeting a beautiful transfer student named Rin Kurenai.
She ends up tasering him and some panels later stabs a sword through his hands.
After surviving that, another Order user appears to threaten Eiji, and he has to fight so he can save the one person he cares about, his sister Sena. This turns out to be a trick — the Daizaifu government of Kyushu has declared war on the whole world, and he either becomes their figurehead or lets his sister die.
Essentially, Eiji has no choice but to join the government.
There’s definitely manga out there that present a character forced to serve as the reluctant leader (you can totally share what they are in the comments), but I can’t think of any at the moment, so I’ll just reference something I do remember — Game of Thrones. In that series, one of the children has to be the King, and just about every time big decisions were needed, others made the decisions for him.
Big Order’s attempt compared to GoT is not as interesting as that. Naturally it’s not fair to compare the two, but even being average in the puppet department would have been great, but the only time it provides a good grasp of how Eiji stands compared to the peers he has to “lead” — they also are Orders — is when he meets with the Prime Minister. Aside from that, his moments aren’t very interesting, and for someone aiming for world domination and can control anything physical with his power, it’s pretty bad.
The only time things get interesting is when Rin appears. With her immediate presence, she turns “boring protagonist kinda moping” to “Holy crap why did Sakae Esuno make me the main character again?” It’s not just that there’s a lot of chatting about stuff I don’t care about, but Big Order expresses them poorly. The best example is when Eiji explains why he needs to live despite what he’s done, and it involves Sena. It’s a reasonable motivation, but the art fails to show how serious this is for him.
That’s why almost any panel involving Rin is cool. How do you fight a girl who can regenerate and has a one-track mind of revenge? You use your “Order” to fling a bunch of cars at her. Want to use that one-track mindset to kill Eiji by teaming up? Yeah, she literally wants none of your team ups and desires to kill him herself.
Considering how vague Sakae Esuno has kept what exactly Eiji did ten years ago, there’s bound to be more to the story than him just wishing the world’s destruction and that’ll mean relationships will change. Of course, the relationship between Yuki and Yuno in Future Diary was always touch-and-go, and I definitely expect that here. It’ll be interesting to see what else changes from what happens in this volume to the next. Honestly, I hope ridiculous stuff happens because as it is, it doesn’t feel like the story will make much sense. Still, entertainment exists in this series, so we’ll see if it’ll happen.
- Justin
In short, I think Big Order can be quite good, but also holds itself back with everything else aside from Rin.
Eiji Hoshimiya is an “Order” — a person who had a wish, and received an ability coinciding with it. His wish as a kid was to destroy the world. Instead, he got his parents and hundreds of others killed, and allowed many more people to potentially become an Order. When Daisy, the one who gave him his ability, questions the wish he made as a child, Eiji wonders what his wish was as he lives a lackadaisical life going to and from school. Before he can get that solved, he ends up meeting a beautiful transfer student named Rin Kurenai.
She ends up tasering him and some panels later stabs a sword through his hands.
After surviving that, another Order user appears to threaten Eiji, and he has to fight so he can save the one person he cares about, his sister Sena. This turns out to be a trick — the Daizaifu government of Kyushu has declared war on the whole world, and he either becomes their figurehead or lets his sister die.
Essentially, Eiji has no choice but to join the government.
There’s definitely manga out there that present a character forced to serve as the reluctant leader (you can totally share what they are in the comments), but I can’t think of any at the moment, so I’ll just reference something I do remember — Game of Thrones. In that series, one of the children has to be the King, and just about every time big decisions were needed, others made the decisions for him.
Big Order’s attempt compared to GoT is not as interesting as that. Naturally it’s not fair to compare the two, but even being average in the puppet department would have been great, but the only time it provides a good grasp of how Eiji stands compared to the peers he has to “lead” — they also are Orders — is when he meets with the Prime Minister. Aside from that, his moments aren’t very interesting, and for someone aiming for world domination and can control anything physical with his power, it’s pretty bad.
The only time things get interesting is when Rin appears. With her immediate presence, she turns “boring protagonist kinda moping” to “Holy crap why did Sakae Esuno make me the main character again?” It’s not just that there’s a lot of chatting about stuff I don’t care about, but Big Order expresses them poorly. The best example is when Eiji explains why he needs to live despite what he’s done, and it involves Sena. It’s a reasonable motivation, but the art fails to show how serious this is for him.
That’s why almost any panel involving Rin is cool. How do you fight a girl who can regenerate and has a one-track mind of revenge? You use your “Order” to fling a bunch of cars at her. Want to use that one-track mindset to kill Eiji by teaming up? Yeah, she literally wants none of your team ups and desires to kill him herself.
Considering how vague Sakae Esuno has kept what exactly Eiji did ten years ago, there’s bound to be more to the story than him just wishing the world’s destruction and that’ll mean relationships will change. Of course, the relationship between Yuki and Yuno in Future Diary was always touch-and-go, and I definitely expect that here. It’ll be interesting to see what else changes from what happens in this volume to the next. Honestly, I hope ridiculous stuff happens because as it is, it doesn’t feel like the story will make much sense. Still, entertainment exists in this series, so we’ll see if it’ll happen.
- Justin
February 13, 2017
I wasn't sure why this got an M rating, but then I saw the bath house scene at the end. Still that was pretty mild.
September 15, 2017
The beginning of the story was fun when he was in school. A lot of characters get introduced very quickly so it's a bit to take in. The powers are very cool.
September 25, 2018
It was ok. A little silly and over-the-top, but not so bad.
March 26, 2019
Wut kind of fuckery is dis?
It started out okay and then skidmarked through ridonksville.
It started out okay and then skidmarked through ridonksville.
March 5, 2020
Not quite sure how I feel. May give the next book a go to see what happens. Could honestly drop it now though and not be upset.
May 11, 2020
1.5 stars.
December 31, 2022
I was hoping the manga which the anime was based on was somewhat more coherent. Nope, just as ridiculous and mindlessly numbing, not even dumb fun. Dropping!
January 23, 2017
So, in this volume, we meet Eiji. Eiji made a wish ten years ago that resulted in the great destruction. He wanted to be a hero....but the world was nearly destroyed and ever since he's refused to his power again because of his fear of the destruction it caused the first time round. He doesn't want a repeat performance. But unfortunately for him, a female assassin and Order comes after him seeking revenge for the pain he caused 10 years ago. Eiji finds himself not only using his powers once again to save his sister...but he finds himself embroiled in a coup d'etat of sorts with an organisation of Orders who have big plans.
Okaaaaayyy so, of course this grabbed my interest because, hello, it sounds like a superhero type thing! But this is a little bit different. The powers the Orders have, have been granted because of a wish they made. Seriously...make a wish and BOOM the mysterious Daisy will give you a power. I'm kind of jealous because it's way easier than you know....exploding a particle accelerator Flash style! I loved the angle, I thought Eiji's power was interesting, and I enjoyed seeing each characters power and trying to work out what they wished for, because some of them are a little bit twisted. They aren't exact wishes per se.
There's romance of a sort, but it's a smidgen messed up.....in an entertaining way! Rin, said previously mentioned assassin, wants to kill Eiji. But thanks to his Order, she's unable to kill him...and because he was careless with his Order....she's his partner/girlfriend too. Awkward. Like I said, it's messed up but it's also hugely entertaining because Rin doesn't give up and she just keeps on trying to kill him or luring him in to situations that'll kill him. The character dynamic between the two of them ended up being really interesting because of this, and I'm intrigued to see where it's going to go!
I was pulled in to the story by the plot and immediately intrigued as to what exactly Eiji did, and the ending left me wanting more. There's plenty of action to keep you turning the pages as Rin tries to kill Eiji, and all the Orders with their different powers clash in various different situations, I think we all love a good battle scene! I also found there to be an intriguing look at morality towards the end of the volume as one of the Orders came to a realisation.
However...there is a however, sorry guys. There where a few moments when I was sitting there looking at a battle scene or whatever, and I was poking holes a little bit, because I didn't understand why a character didn't do this, or that and save everyone some trouble. I think this was largely due to the fact that the powers and their limitations where never really laid out for us. We don't get a full detailed explanation so it's kind of left up in the air. We had no defined parameters for them. So you'd think you'd worked out what one power could do but then it'd do something you didn't think it could or it wouldn't do something you'd thought it could, and with characters stepping in here and there it was hard to try to work it out for yourself.
Tl;dr: There are a lot of unexplained things that are likely to bug some readers. I mean if you don't care then cool, carry on, but if unexplained things are going to annoy you then maybe give this one a miss.
Big Order has super powers and plenty of action and adventure. The plot is its main driving force, but the relationships and interactions between characters provide intrigue and entertainment throughout. Especially in the case of Eiji and Rin! I liked the art, the characters, and I'm intrigued to see what the overall plan is and what Eiji is going to do about his situation because I'm like 99% sure that the dude in charge is up to something and completely untrustworthy...but we'll see! There are a few problems with the powers and their parameters, and there was a really weird turn at one point that had me like...um...okaaaay...what just happened!? Is this really happening?! But for a first volume, I think it was pretty good and I'm definitely intrigued to see how things play out and to learn more about the Orders!
Okaaaaayyy so, of course this grabbed my interest because, hello, it sounds like a superhero type thing! But this is a little bit different. The powers the Orders have, have been granted because of a wish they made. Seriously...make a wish and BOOM the mysterious Daisy will give you a power. I'm kind of jealous because it's way easier than you know....exploding a particle accelerator Flash style! I loved the angle, I thought Eiji's power was interesting, and I enjoyed seeing each characters power and trying to work out what they wished for, because some of them are a little bit twisted. They aren't exact wishes per se.
There's romance of a sort, but it's a smidgen messed up.....in an entertaining way! Rin, said previously mentioned assassin, wants to kill Eiji. But thanks to his Order, she's unable to kill him...and because he was careless with his Order....she's his partner/girlfriend too. Awkward. Like I said, it's messed up but it's also hugely entertaining because Rin doesn't give up and she just keeps on trying to kill him or luring him in to situations that'll kill him. The character dynamic between the two of them ended up being really interesting because of this, and I'm intrigued to see where it's going to go!
I was pulled in to the story by the plot and immediately intrigued as to what exactly Eiji did, and the ending left me wanting more. There's plenty of action to keep you turning the pages as Rin tries to kill Eiji, and all the Orders with their different powers clash in various different situations, I think we all love a good battle scene! I also found there to be an intriguing look at morality towards the end of the volume as one of the Orders came to a realisation.
However...there is a however, sorry guys. There where a few moments when I was sitting there looking at a battle scene or whatever, and I was poking holes a little bit, because I didn't understand why a character didn't do this, or that and save everyone some trouble. I think this was largely due to the fact that the powers and their limitations where never really laid out for us. We don't get a full detailed explanation so it's kind of left up in the air. We had no defined parameters for them. So you'd think you'd worked out what one power could do but then it'd do something you didn't think it could or it wouldn't do something you'd thought it could, and with characters stepping in here and there it was hard to try to work it out for yourself.
Tl;dr: There are a lot of unexplained things that are likely to bug some readers. I mean if you don't care then cool, carry on, but if unexplained things are going to annoy you then maybe give this one a miss.
Big Order has super powers and plenty of action and adventure. The plot is its main driving force, but the relationships and interactions between characters provide intrigue and entertainment throughout. Especially in the case of Eiji and Rin! I liked the art, the characters, and I'm intrigued to see what the overall plan is and what Eiji is going to do about his situation because I'm like 99% sure that the dude in charge is up to something and completely untrustworthy...but we'll see! There are a few problems with the powers and their parameters, and there was a really weird turn at one point that had me like...um...okaaaay...what just happened!? Is this really happening?! But for a first volume, I think it was pretty good and I'm definitely intrigued to see how things play out and to learn more about the Orders!
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