skygiants

They're 35 EXTREMELY GOOD volumes of manga that I for sure didn't have the time to reread over the past two months either, and yet ...

I just really love the variety and richness of the relationships as portrayed, how the story emphasizes that the development of connection and community is as or more important to survival as the skills of acquiring food and shelter and disaster planning etc. One long, hilarious heroic conga line involves Person A in peril, Person B setting off into ill-advised peril to rescue them, Person C who hates Person A but cares deeply about Person B setting off as well because they can't let Person B go alone, Person D who couldn't care less about Person A or B but deeply cares about Person C joining the party as well to take care of them ... this happens like four times with Person D facepalming ever more consistently. The grand finale involves thirty kids in an underground shelter in small separated groups, all coaching each other through the different skills each group will need to escape and shouting support to friends and strangers over walkie-talkie*, and it's vastly logistically convoluted and so emotionally satisfying.


*and by walkie-talkie, I mean inexplicably communication-enabled network of industrial roombas.