Kikaider Code 02 2
Posted: March 22, 2009 Filed under: Kikaider Code 02 3 Comments »Mmm… yeah. This is an easy series to read, because there’s not a lot of dialogue and the art is quite good. On the other hand… there’s really not much going on. There are… er, deep philosophies at work, but the actual story is a little lacking.
Most of the dialogue focuses on what makes a living being alive, and whether or not the robots that are being made here are alive or just machines. There’s also an environmentalist message brought into things here, since the villian starts killing off scientists researching various aspects of environmental protection. Apparently this guy… wants to wipe humans off the face of the Earth so that the Earth can then set about reversing the damage humans have done to it.
Mitsuko doesn’t really want to have anything to do with the sentient robots anymore, but she’s sort of in the thick of things. One of her dad’s failed robots kidnaps her, a humanoid one with a failed Gemini chip like Jiro’s, but one that failed early on so that the scientist made his alternate form some sort of bat robot. There’s also a scorpion robot that Jiro takes out of commission, but we don’t actually get to see Jiro’s transformation again this volume.
There’s also a sort of evil scientist setting the mood, and some sort of rogue riding around putting things right… the type of character that is mostly evil, but does some good things.
Eh. I didn’t actually enjoy this volume that much, but I’ll keep reading.
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how much is it worth
Kikaider 02? Not more than retail, $9.99 or so. It might be between printings right now, but it’s still in stock at Amazon, so scarcity hasn’t driven the price up. Yet, anyway.