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REVIEW: Zombie Powder GN 1

A part of Viz Media’s Shonen Jump Manga line, this unfinished 1999 series is now seeing release in the U.S. because it was the premiere manga work of Tite Kubo, who is much better-known to American otaku as the creator of Bleach.

Just how "unfinished" is this series? Did it die in the middle of a an arc or did it just die before closing all it's plot lines?

It died at the end of an arc with very little explained.

I actually prefer Zombie Powder over Bleach. The comedy relief in this one-shot doesn't seem as forced as it does in Bleach, and there's an actual goal.

Review wrote:

A part of Viz Media’s Shonen Jump Manga line, this unfinished 1999 series is now seeing release in the U.S. because it was the premiere manga work of Tite Kubo, who is much better-known to American otaku as the creator of Bleach.

Just how "unfinished" is this series? Did it die in the middle of a an arc or did it just die before closing all it's plot lines?

I'm a little curious to see what this is like, since I like Bleach and I'm actually intrigued by the idea of comedy torture.

I wonder if Kubo will ever take the time, say after Bleach is through, to pen a conclusion. It probably bothers him just a little that he couldn't finish it back then. Or even a total redo, correcting his past errors.

His visual graphic content isn’t as extreme as the strongest titles out there but is in the upper tier when it comes to depictions of violence.

Teenagers (Extreme graphic violence, torture.)

Key wrote:

His visual graphic content isn’t as extreme as the strongest titles out there but is in the upper tier when it comes to depictions of violence.

Key wrote:

Teenagers (Extreme graphic violence, torture.)

Thank you for allowing me to bring up something I've been meaning to comment on for a while.

If memory serves, ZP is rated 13+. As is Yu Yu Hakusho. Recently I've noticed in many VIZ publications that are rated 13+ allow quite a bit of graphic violence but to say "damn" puts the series from 13+ to 16+.

I've never read ZP so I don't know how graphic it gets but, on recomendation, I did read Black Cat volume 1. The book was rated 16+ but the violence was mild, there were three potentially objectional words at most. Alcohol references were few to none and sexual and drug references were nonexistant. The plot itself is unlikley to appeal to anyone over the age of 16, so why rate it 16+?

Recent volumes of Yu Yu Hakusho have had no language whatsoever, minimal alcohol and tabaco use and less sexual reference that they have language. The violence, however, has had it's stronger moments (Chapter 89). Whether or not it constitutes a 16+ is arguable, but I can hardly understand why VIZ treats violence so lightly while all the other vices are treated as such attrocities.

Zoe wrote:

It died at the end of an arc with very little explained.

That not true at all. It ended with everything that needed to be done at the time. spoiler[They got Wolfina's brother to the doctor to get the ring of the dead removed, and then Gamma decided that he would leave Elwood and just continue on his journey with Smith.] If there was a next chapter it would have Gamma and Smith together there, just wasn’t.

I actually prefer Zombie Powder over Bleach. The comedy relief in this one-shot doesn't seem as forced as it does in Bleach, and there's an actual goal.

zombie powder being something Kubo did in High School, I respect it to. It is very good for something written and illistrated in 11th grade, wouldn't you agree.