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Dec 5, 2022 to Sep 4, 2023
6.3/10
Average Review Score
50%
Recommend It
4
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Jinzou Ningen 100 was an interesting manga. From the start it had a premise which instantly grabbed you, the dynamic between its two leads is one inherently fraught with unease yet with the potential for interesting growth, while the idea of hunting the remaining 99 Fabricants made for a solid Villain-of-the-Week setup. And for its first few chapters, it was rather decent. The Fabricants were consistently unique and interesting opponents, Yao and No. 100 were fun to follow, and the subtle development of the setting made was neat to see. The problems came, however, when the series strayed away from the formula and towards amore directly serialized narrative. To put it simply, the emergence of the larger plot came too early and unnaturally, feeling like it was trying to shake up the status quo when the status quo was barely even established yet, and weakening the series' overall consistency as it tried and failed to juggle the relatively unique fights against Fabricants which initially defined the series' identity with the ongoing plot which relied on highly cliched and poorly utilized Shonen Battle manga tropes. Worse was what this did to the character writing, as attempts to shake up the two leads' relationship and develop their characters were often inconsistent or ignored, and the heavy expansion of the cast made the direction pulled the series' attention in too many directions and left almost all of these new characters uninteresting and underdeveloped. That's not necessarily to say that these portions of the series were terrible, per say. Even at it's worst, the series was nothing offensively awful, the pacing was surprisingly tolerable, and there's at least one notable Fabricant fight/mini-arc in the series' latter half that I think was genuinely great and an insight into what the series could've been if it was more consistent and even. It's very clear to tell in many respects that the series was facing cancellation and the writer was forced to rush through too much of the story he had planned, and for that, I have nothing but sympathy for Daisuke Enoshima. If nothing else, I can respect that he was at least able to properly conclude his story and wrapped up every loose end in a generally satisfying way, even if the buildup was very uneven and rushed. Additionally, the artwork was great, with unique character designs, action that flows, and some absolutely visceral visuals which perfectly compliment the manga's tone. In the end, Fabricant 100 isn't exactly a good series, but it is an interesting one, and I don't regret reading it. There are ultimately a lot of things to appreciate and some readers could find themselves enjoying its high points as long as they're able to tolerate its inconsistencies.
There was once a doctor fixated on creating the "ideal human being." After the doctor's death, his fabricant creations start attacking humans in order to attain the perfect body. When Ashibi Yao's entire family is murdered by these fabricants, he sets out on a journey of revenge accompanied by the doctor's final creation, Fabricant 100. (Source: MANGA Plus) Included one-shots: Volume 3: Suki Kurui (Crazy in Love) Volume 4: Atama no Nai Futari (The Two Without Heads) Volume 5: Jinzou Ningen 100 (pilot)
Interesting setting, fun main character dynamic, great art, better ending than most cancelled series. I recommend this, even though it barely sticks a landing within the last 4/5 chapters after it becomes clear that it's not being continued. It's a cool relationship to have for a series to have the #1 strongest enemy in the enemy's group as your main companion! It led to some thoughtful dynamics - 100 will defend Ashibi at almost any cost, but she doesn't want to destroy the only Fabricant that can fix her. How do you proceed when you can't rely on your partner to end the danger your societyis in? They don't cover that in much detail after the fact, however, in a rush to get a power system in play and a new arc started to keep readers interested. Still, I loved the art and the characters were interesting enough to keep me going. A shame it's gone, but it's much better than most cancelled series of a similar length.
Well this is a little late. I read the first 8 chapters when it was still releasing. Well yesterday i comeback and read it fully, it's a shame it got cancelled so soon, the work we have is really good and more completed series had the potential to be a classic, well in my opinion at least. It's not without problems though, but most of them are because of it's short run, but it's a pretty good manga and you should definitely read if you got a chance. The main cast is really good, especially N 100, she is the story, and it never fells likeshe betrays her character staying true to the end, i fell like other author would make her repent but Daisuke Enoshima makes her selfish to the end. The art style is great it was what made me read it to begin with. One last critic i have to give is sometimes the manga doesn’t now if it want to be a horror story or a classic battle manga, it hurts it a little as it can fells goofy sometimes.
Against all the other canceled Shounen Jump titles, this one has at least a proper and good ending. But let’s talk about why it never could rise above the mediocre level. - Overall (5/10): In my opinion it had 2 big issues, a very weak MC and an art with a lot of errors. And even with a decent story, due to a lack of a proper written comedy or action the enjoyment could never hold strong enough to reach a big stable audience. It was just like the fabricants in this story, they were patched together with better or worse parts, but they could never begood enough. - Story (6/10): So let’s start with the brain, the story part, the strongest one. A supposedly evil doctor who created superhuman monsters, with one goal in mind to get better and better parts for themselves and reach perfection. While on the other side we have an organization who hunts them, with (not so well described) superhuman powers as well. As you already may think, the story behind the monsters is way more interesting. Especially the little arcs with the outstanding humans whose body parts they hunt and their backstories. So altogether, one half is the basic Shounen story, while the other interesting characters and their pasts. - Art (5/10): Now we are cutting deeper in this patched body. The art had many flaws. Not so wisely chosen paneling, not so detailed nor varied Character designs, weak dynamic by the action and a lot of errors. For example giving an important character one body part more, in a story with patched superhumans… Yeah, that was really unfortunate… At least the author could have made the error to a big story plot, regrettably that happened neither. - Characters (4/10): And so we arrived at the heart of this manga, and the main reason why it failed, a terribly weak MC, Ashibi. His logic and actions were just too childishly pure. He really was like a child, not just in the looks. While the other MC, the name giving Fabricant 100, was just a superhuman mother-like figure, who beat the crap out of the enemies. With that Ashibis whole role was to be the maiden to be saved or giving obvious orders. And yes, later he gets more power, but it was already too late. At least Fabricant 100 was true to her character until the end, but I don’t want to spoil anyone, so check it out. And as for the handful or side characters… They were there… We got one, I repeat, ONE backstory. And with that they were the only side character with some flesh on the ribs. - Enjoyment (5/10): Looking at our patched corpse, the story was enough to be hooked, however the poor action, comedy or the weak MC broke the flow bone way too often. And with that the enjoyment was always an up and down.