Cracks from the pressure of his life are showing but he resists falling apart by keeping up simple routines and repeatedly telling himself that he is a hero like it is a mantra but it seems he is at the end of his tether and finds it increasingly hard to cope as hope is sucked out of him. Hideo burns with jealousy and envy of rivals but holds it all in as he floats along in the wake of others. He does have a girlfriend named Tekko but she reminds Hideo of his lack of success as she thoughtlessly raves about her ex-boyfriend, a more successful artist getting published and making money. Hideo tries to get his own manga published but is constantly rejected. His day job is as a manga assistant to a more successful and domineering manga-ka. He is a geeky and obsessive out-of-shape guy in his thirties and he is struggling with his everyday life. The hero of the story is Hideo Suzuki and he isn’t much of a hero. I have been reading Kengo Hanazawa’s manga I am a Hero since 2013 and each volume has proven to be a thrilling and scary read. It has been a long time since I was thrilled by zombie apocalypse Today it’s all a shooting gallery or dramas about snarky teenage zomboys and zomgirls and romance for the iPad generation. Gone are my teenage years when I first experienced the existential and visceral terror of the horror and bleak social commentary that Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead carried. I watch them but I am beginning to get weary of it all. They dash along cinema screens in horror movies like World War Z and they shamble across small screens in video games like Resident Evil and television series The Walking Dead, anime like Highschool of the Dead, and even reality TV shows like the BBC’s I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse. As she gets closer to the door, the tension ratchets up to a fever pitch, before she reveals her face in all its disheveled glory.Launched in 2009, 16 volumes and currently ongoing. She seems unaware of his pleas, and crawls out of her bed. She sits up, despite Hideo's insistence that she not bother herself. The point of view switches to Hideo's view from the mail slot, and we see Tekko in bed. Hideo ascends the staircase and peeks through the mail slot of Tekko's apartment door. While crossing the bridge on the way to her apartment, he notices military vehicles are driving beneath it's an indication that, yes, something terrible is about to happen. When the zombie apocalypse that we were promised on the book's cover comes to pass, it's tremendously rewarding.Īn example of that is when Hideo learns that Tekko has become infected with ZQN. The series knows to show and not tell, and it is through overheard conversations that Hideo - and, thus, the reader - learns the world is about to change, mostly for the worse. I Am a Hero is slow with the way it presents its horror.
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