Based on the light novel series by Omi Kifuru, divine attackWritten by Kouya Ashitaka, is a detective genre mystery series originally based on x files to begin after godThe supernatural world of Fubar. Any debate on the existence of gods is passé as there are so many strange things happening around the world that one can become a non-believer. The strongest evidence pointing to the dominance of some kind of divine being over us is the huge body parts that rain down from the sky. Everyday life of unfortunate residents divine attack‘ The world is essentially seeing a greatest hits of Junji Ito’s horrors, with people either making peace with them or engaging in cultural superstition to try to explain why their lives are so bizarrely messed up.
The only way to save humanity is a strange pair of special investigators, tasked with the incredible task of traversing the countryside and deciphering the unexplainable. Leading the charge is Katagishi, a mild-mannered, perpetually weary smoker. Following him is junior investigator Miyuki – the bubbly, outspoken and bright-eyed yen to Katagishi’s “I’m too old for this” yang (despite looking barely 30). Although they’re not exactly the Mulder and Scully duo, they bounce off each other very well as a tired straight man and a positively grinning slacker trekking from one Podunk town to the next, stumbling into all sorts of occult absurdities.
So far, his cases have included the aforementioned Titan-sized raindrops, limbs disappearing from corpses in the morgue, and a village whose residents insist they are immortal after cannibalizing a mermaid. Yes, the people Katagishi and Miyuki meet are just as strange as the creepypasta creatures they’re investigating.
Although the series is still in the early stages of where it’s going, with one volume finished and another on the way, what’s notable about divine attack It’s that not all of its cases boil down to the monster-of-the-week formula where they inevitably win. If anything, a page out of the series Otherside PicnicKnowing the pair have a good playbook knows when to leave them alone, run the other way when they’re in over their heads or raise their hands to accept when they can only catch the frame, but not the entire tapestry of their case.
So if you are looking for a supernatural series that sharpens your mind rather than throwing your hands to solve problems, then definitely add divine attack For your growing manga backlog.
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