| Average |
5.8 |
| Design |
7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
| Based off of 15 chapters (I don't believe animenfo's volume number is accurate).
BIOMEGA is a science fiction manga that tells the story about an artificially synthesized human's rescue of a Mars virus adapted girl. The main enemy is this organization that purposely brought this virus back from the now destroyed Mars colony in order to re-evolve and control the human population. For those who do not adapt (the organization gave themselves an inert version of the virus, so that they were 'immune' to the poisonous effects), they are turned into mindless zombie-like drones. Although it is too late to save the world, it is up to the synthetic human character to rescue the naturally virus-adapted young girl who has been kidnapped by the organization, and to help ensure the future of humanity (not in the hands of the evil organization).
While BIOMEGA's story seems interesting, it is mostly an action manga. Our main character is some nearly indestructible android-like human and the enemies are alien-like beings due to the virus. As he rides around on his motorcycle packed with an enormous amount of futuristic weapons, he manages to maim, behead, destroy, explode a variety of drones and more sentient alien-turned evil humans. BIOMEGA's action is like most others, large destruction of many bodies with huge gross exaggerations of all the weapon effects and body mutilations. Not very unique.
The art design in BIOMEGA looks pretty nice, with all the futuristic stuff, and at first I thought it was somehow related to BLAME because of the similarity in design. However, overall, the artwork is not too impressive. At times, it feels very rough with sketches like effects. This is definitely not due to the limitations of the artists, as his color covers and pictures are very nice. Therefore, there is a tradeoff between complex images and the amount of detail put into them.
So far, BIOMEGA feels like a run-of-the-mill science fiction manga. The original story idea seems pretty interesting, but it is basically just a futuristic rescue manga, with an array of science-fiction weapons and such. The most appealing aspect so far is how there are 3 separate organizations that have different goals in such a pre-apocalyptic situation. However, BIOMEGA does not peak any interest from me, and I doubt it would for anyone interested in a more substantial storyline.
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