It’s the late ‘90s for no reason and there are people who get superpowers randomly called Choujin, whatever that means, and some are arbitrarily good and some are bad. Also a drug gives you those powers but few people use it for no reason. Anyway our teenage protagonists take the drug because they’re their town’s protectors for some reason (where are the police?!) and one of them develops a beak on his face. Which makes him a target for evil choujin, why…?
Choujin X is trash. It’s an incompetent manga take on the X-Men (that’s the only reason I can see why “X” is even in the title) by the creator of Tokyo Ghoul, Sui Ishida.
The storytelling is so bad. What exactly is a “choujin”? Where did these powers come from? What is the core conflict of this series - good v bad? So then why are some choujin evil and some good - what’s the appeal of either side, or are some just evil for shits and gigs?
The first half of the book is brainless, meaningless action. Two teenagers fight generic bad guys and then one of them gets a beak, while another teenager fights another generic bad guy in a suit and humanoid sheep on motorbikes (it sounds like I’m taking the piss but that really happens).
The second half is Tokio, the kid with the beak, trying to get rid of the beak, while another animalistic choujin fights him for some reason. Oh and he gets the beak because a random kid years ago said he was like a vulture and that’s why. Ugh. What drivel.
This book is a godawful read. None of it makes sense and none of it is interesting either. It tries to be funny and exciting by turns and fails at both repeatedly. The worldbuilding is feeble at best. I didn’t rate Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul because it was that bad I couldn’t get through it and he hasn’t gotten better since with this absolutely rubbish first volume of Choujin X.
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