Manga: Emerging

    I think this is the first actually blog post where I'm not mentioning from something coming from a book, history,or movie. However it is a book, to be more specific, it's a manga. If you really do not know what a manga, it's basically like a comic book, mostly read from right to left, and the art is Japanese style. For some reason, unlike most people who would read the most popular one like Naruto or Bleach, I'll be blogging about the manga series Emerging. It's not popular, doesn't have many readers, and sorry for your disappointment, nor does it have a lot of chapters to read (only has sixteen chapters so far). However, it stands out in its own unique way. It was released last year in 2009 and the author and artist is Hokazono Masaya, who has known for these genres: drama, horror, and seinen (a class of manga written for an older male audience). I didn't really pay attention to the seinen part, so I continue to read the series.
    Coming from the summary from the website I was reading, it says this: Japan is a brilliant model of Asian success and obligation. But how would this country manage a large-scale sanitary crisis? What would happen in Shinjuku, one of Tokyo's biggest districts, if a man exploded in the street during broad daylight? How would the political and sanitation authorities manage such a crisis? Please consider this question as long as you can--because it's already too late for professors Onodera and Sekiguchi! Is an emerging virus slowly spreading itself into the arteries of the Japanese capital? I was intrigued with what it has to say and decided to read it. Boy was I hooked, I have idea why, but I highly doubt many people would like reading this manga, especially if it can actually be true.
The reason why I decided to blog about this series is because this type of manga should be taken seriously, or not. It shows how there is a possibility for a new unknown virus and can happen any part of the world. To those who are interested in reading this series, here's the link:
    Also, if you finish reading this series and want a similar one, here's one called Bloody Monday. It is greatly similar to Emerging, but has terrorism involved with the situation. This is the summary: A virus deal clinched in Russia on the Christmas eve. Purpose: unknown. Two clues: a mysterious lady "Maya", one of the reasons it happened, and "Bloody Monday", the keyword for the project. Then an incident happened in far-distant city of Tokyo. Fujimaru Takagi, a second year student at Mishiro Gakuin high school, is commissioned to find out the truth by the Public Security Intelligence Agency, for his great ability as a super hacker. Now, Maya approaching to Fujimaru as his high school teacher... Honestly, I really like reading this series. It's also lucky that it's completed so I won't go crazy waiting for it to update weekly (or monthly) for new releases. It you are done with BOTH series, there is still the newly released sequel of Bloody Monday, called Bloody Monday 2.

Here are the links if you are interested:
Emerging: click here
Bloody Monday: click here
Bloody Monday 2: click here