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銃夢 愛蔵版 [Gunnm Aizouban] #1

Gunnm - Grand format, Tome 1

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Aussi hybride que les cyborgs qu'il met en scène, Gunnm vaut le titre (souvent entendu pour Akira) d'œuvre somme. En neuf volumes, cette réédition (complétée d'inédits) narre les pérégrinations de Gally, mélange d'essence de femme et de technologie absolue au milieu du monde désaxé d'une décharge futuriste géante.
La série commence avec la découverte de ses restes par Daisuke, "médecin-réparateur". Remise en état mais amnésique, Gally revient à la vie de combat en combat en se confrontant à une technologie terrifiante 䜣 dont elle est elle-même composée. Son chemin la mènera à un affrontement acharné contre Makaku, ennemi aussi tenace que son corps de ver géant robotisé est monstrueux. Happé par la précision et l'harmonie du dessin, le lecteur se laisse emporter avec délice dans les méandres d'un scénario présentant une réalité très dure et sans fard, proscrivant le manichéisme et disputant au trait la palme de la cohérence. L'alternance des combats (au séquençage et au graphisme percutant) et des interrogations de Gally sur ses origines pointent en effet tout le long de ce manga vénéneux sa trame nietzschéenne : la constante recherche du bien, quitte à passer par le mal.
On s'attache à Gally, guerrière si fragile et si séduisante. Gunnm, publié originellement à partir de 1991, est un must du genre. Alors s'il ne fallait en lire qu'un... --Florian Pittion

350 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

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Yukito Kishiro

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Yukito Kishiro (Japanese: 木城ゆきと) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo in 1967 and raised in Chiba. As a teenager he was influenced by the mecha anime Armored Trooper Votoms and Mobile Suit Gundam, in particular the designs of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, as well as the works of manga artist Rumiko Takahashi. He began his career at age 17, with his debut manga, Space Oddity, in the Weekly Shonen Sunday. He is best known for the cyberpunk series Battle Angel Alita.

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1,268 reviews71 followers
April 22, 2019
Don't spoil your dinner.

With Alita on my mind, I just couldn't come to terms reading the story from Gally's point of view. The love story was gone -- the action taking over the entire place. It was impossible to get attached to her seeing as we don't see struggle enough as to why she wasn't to be a warrior.

Not for me.
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277 reviews17 followers
February 22, 2019
This book was published in 2000, which is around the time I first read it, though I would have read an earlier smaller format version (also the French translation by Glenat) a short time earlier as I recall. I've been waiting for James Cameron's "Battle Angel" longer than that, since watching the anime in the 90s! It had been a long time since I last read this story, probably about 18 years, but it is an enjoyable one.

This is the introduction of Gally, Ido and Yugo and the story seems to follow what the new film tells, though I have yet to see it. The character and setting are really fun and captivating. What a great dystopian but somewhat believable world that is created. It's the future but so far out that we don't really have too much of an idea of what's going on. So many mysteries that aren't explained. Although I have learned, and somewhat forgot, the answers to some of these mysteries I recall how much I wondered about them for years!

A bit of a drag on fight in the last few chapters. I don't really appreciate a fight that takes more than one chapter to tell! Get back to the amazing world building please! Minor gripe!

A good manga and I hope a good movie based on it! We shall see.
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557 reviews9 followers
August 21, 2019
Ce manga nous offre une quête existentielle dans un univers cyberpunk post-cataclysmique, teinté d’un commentaire sociale sur la division des richesses. C’est un manga seinen mais avec un récit très inspiré par le sous-genre shōnen du nekketsu, où le héros — souvent orphelin — doit réaliser une quête initiatique qui l’amène à affronter de nombreux obstacles et des adversaires en tournoi ou combat singulier.

J’ai lu ce manga il y a une vingtaine d’années et j’en avais gardé un très bon souvenir. C’est effectivement une série qui avait été très bien reçu tant en France qu’aux U.S.A. En prévision de la sortie de l’adaptation cinématographique, j’ai décidé d’en faire une relecture et celle-ci n’a pas altérée ma première impression. C’est un très bon manga, plein d’action mais aussi d’émotions et d’idées qui appelles à la réflexion. Je vous le recommande.

Voir mon commentaire complet sur https://clodjee-blog.com/2019/08/19/g...
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33 reviews2 followers
July 11, 2021
Not going to lie, I wasn't that invested in Alita/Gally as a main character, but I was so emotionally affected by random side character arcs, which I think the manga uses exceptionally to explore very human dynamics in this technologically advanced but societally broken world. I gave it five stars because I actually shed a tear during the short story at the end, and also the world that the mangaka built is just SO cool and intricate.
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July 18, 2019
Ya leí los nueve tomos seguidos , y sin duda me a gustado sin embargo la historia tan atrapante se perdía entre tantos saltos temporales , donde me costaba cada vez mas agarrarle él ritmo
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October 11, 2022
The world in which the story happens is well made and captivating, as well as the characters and their motivations, even the "bad ones".
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