This review will have spoilers, if you think you’ll read it, I suggest coming back once you do so. As, I will enlighten you. If you don’t want to read it, please feel free to enjoy the review :) I tried to make it entertaining for readers that have not read it.

(This is a low effort review, I’m not doing some deep dive into the manga and I’m not providing screenshots, but it’s my general thoughts on the series. If you want to talk about it more go ahead and message me. I’m down to discuss.)

It starts in the anus and ends in the shitter, just like the manga.

Enter: God’s child. A hyperbolized take of a sociopath neglected by society.

Whether it be smearing feces everywhere because it is the only thing that entertains you, or raping the one you develop feelings for at the age of five. Justifying it by saying she was already raped; Therefore it is morally okay to do it yourself. The whole series is a deep dive into a two foot well, it is pure shock/horror bait for readers that want something of the sort. I expect the author had done exactly what they want: A freaky read; But, behind the pages it is not much more than that. It sets up all these ideas and simply does them, delivering no nuance to such ideas, as if only stating- “ah, this happened”, it is a shallow look into the what if of a sociopath neglected by society, as stated earlier. Now- they try to implement this idea throughout the whole story, that of neglect. Like, for one example, they have this girl who was bullied simply for being quiet and separate from her classmates, it is implied that she is like this from neglect, and yet again it does nothing to explore this. It is the same with the classmates, it was explained that they bullied her because they bullied anyone for being different. Now I get this is the skewed take on why they did it from our protagonist, but it deserved to be explored more so than just a undertone in the manga. I want to know WHY he thinks he thinks he would be ostracized if he stood out. I do not want this wishy washy point, as by itself it just seems like lazy shock value bait. You can assume why he thinks this way, but there is no point, really.

This manga is not complete garbage, however. The art compliments the abstract story quite well- it almost seems like a homage to Picasso among other abstract artists. The ideas in the manga are so inane, I could see one charmed by it. It’s just not for me in that aspect.

As I said earlier MOST of the ideas are lazily placed and executed but there is a saving grace to this series. One thing it does great is how it portrays his skewed perspective on life- like how he thinks his parents looked at him. He thought they looked at him as literally if he were literal shit. I guess the part about him playing with shit was his way of embracing himself. He accepted who he was even if he didn’t think anyone else would ever, or has ever.

Despite having flaws as I said earlier, his skewed view is the best part of the manga. He see’s himself as shit, all the way to the extent to where he thinks he was born through his mother’s anus. Despite being completely illogical, it is what he truly believes. All throughout the manga he makes himself believe his twisted ways of thinking until he has no literal way of explaining his wrongdoings; He was forced to confront his sins. Guilt written, he lets one of his cult members leave the cult to chase after their personal desires (He has a cult, BY THE WAY.), this was a nice moment as it shows how he regrets how he lived his life thus far. Every cult member represents him, they are all neglected sociopaths of society. He let the other member go because he saw a younger self in that boy. Later, he had succumbed to fear. The one emotion known well to the man. He sent his cult to kill the person that the other cult member who left was seeing. He was scared of the world. He was scared of losing his own world. Later the boy came back and got together with the rest of the cult and fed him to the pigs. He got the ending he deserved. No. The ending he wanted. To be alone at the end, to become literal shit. A fitting ending, throughout the whole manga, God’s child had a weird fetishized fascination, romanticizing shit. What a fitting way to end this insane series.

If you are wondering why the review ending up being abrupt it’s because THAT’S HOW THE MANGA FELT.

This manga has many issues, like why did he form the cult? Why did he start to think this way? They all have lazily defined answers. While thematically portrayed well, this manga stumbles upon itself many times, but still was a interesting read.
I have to give it it’s props.
5/10

Angelic systemic recourse

This will be my review on Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, a masterclass work by Sergei adapting Kumanano's work.

Yuna, the main character of KKKB, she is the shining light upon the desolate world. She was chosen by God to guide the lost children to the light. It's a story about Yuna on her way about angelic recourse.

Media in general is a beautiful place to portray stories, emotions, angelic recourse...
As for manga you only need one. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, its about a girl growing out of her old suit and putting on a new suit quite literally. Its a story about growing and helping others, quite the endearing work. She goes from loathing her family to loving a new family in 5 chapters… This manga is a masterwork and I don't think I need to explain why. You have a bright and colorful cast. It makes the characters feel human, more real than myself in fact, the leader of the village was unaware of bad happenings in the orphanage so he really showed his human side, I cannot explain enough how well written this is, PLUS the art, it is so kawaii, it makes all the moments just hit that much harder. I am reading the manga currently but I plan to read the light novel many a time and the anime too. This should not be limited to merely Isekai enjoyers. Dare I say to share this to your friends and parents. Please read it, thank you.

KKKB shows how addiction can be a bad thing no matter what it is. some people will get obsessed with some sort of idea and take it to a extreme amount, and obsessive desire very well can lead to obesity, quite ironic, huh? because the words are spelled very similarly you can see my point. another point I would like to add is this: The depiction of the fall of mankind. Yuna hates her parents, we don't know why. Why is that? does she have no reason, is that her hatred? Does she really hate them. No. Society forced this on her, many kids of this generation will say: "All adults are bad" and such nonsense, the world is not black and white, i cannot be such. KKKB shows the folly of thinking such ways. That the world would be black and white, and thus... It created a black and white world and shows these problems so well... "The folly of man." this is the best way of describing KKKB, its not all about the folly of man, its so much more. Its beautiful, its touching, its scary... the world is not one of black and whites, as it may seem this way at first to Yuna she slowly goes out of her bubble and realizes that it is like this. people have feelings, they can be hurt, they aren't just NPC's. Which she thought at first, its actually making me cry. Yuna realizes the beauty of the world as soon as God gave her a chance, even you. Yes, you. You can change. You can better yourself. Believe, believe in yourself. Yuna hates the idea of family, she despised it, all because of our society. when those walls fall down and everything is in plain site its clear. Family is beautiful, family is love, family is life. thank you for reading Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.

I don't normally review unfinished series but I felt the need to here.
10/10

Okay now take everything I said and throw it in a fire. A lot of the elements I explained earlier are what make the series poorly written, really, it's just a cute SoL with lazy writing that tries to connect fiction with fact. Yuna is the biggest Mary Sue I have ever seen, and like I said earlier she LITERALLY goes from hating adults to fixing them in a few chapters because she did a few cute things. The plot and characters are so unbelievably forced for Yuna herself, WHATEVER WORKS FOR HER!
There is a storyline where she finds a orphanage shortened on funds so she literally makes one of the rulers of the town help because she said it was bad thing to do. The person who cut the funding only did that, he literally let them keep the building. Also, the kids are treated like scum just because they want food. I get they could get annoying but jeez. Way to overdramatize it.
Anyways. It's a cute read, if you like that stuff give it a try.
25/100

Disclaimer: This review is BAD. I only keep it up to be shamed

• A lot of people strive to be great, to be a hero. Its not always about being the greatest. It can be that one small thing that saves one person. Even if you don't know them. Through acts of kindness a lot can be achieved, don't be so self absorbed and even you could be a hero.

Hideo Suzuki he is one who suffers from schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur, he who believes society doesn't accept him, he only confides in himself while he wants to confide in others. It's a juxtaposition as he has had many significant others to do so but they were only giving into their earthly desires. They simply did it because it was convenient, they truly didn't care for him that way they ran for their own personal desires...

His schizophrenia is depicted really brilliantly. You first learn this in the literal first scene, not even through his character actions. He comes home from work and you see he has a elaborate way to enter his apartment, he thinks someone would do something to him specifically. His paranoia is depicted in a very interesting way; After he finally escapes and gets the chance to sleep, you see right next to him as he wakes up a giant moth, a giant moth with sets of eyes on its wings, a representation visually of his schizophrenia. I love the way the mangaka expresses a lot of panels through his art, his visual story telling is great.

Before I talk about more of his visual story telling I want to expand more on this: Hideo believes society doesn't accept him, which in some way is true. He is a 35 year old man, no one would want to hire him. So he does the only thing he can do where he was, what he failed at, manga making. His editor tells him he is simply uninteresting and doesn't have a story to tell. He is simply trying to make a great story without wanting to tell his audience something, I do like what his author is saying here, because I feel like a lot of stories are simply there and none strive for something. While some strive to make you laugh, some are stories which could provide so much yet don't. Anyways little tangent over, about society weighing him down. On a train he escaped to, a zombie invaded it and started infecting others on the train. The people on the train tried to force him to protect them, we get more insight on a different situation that is basically the same, the people tried to force the man to protect him but tried saving the pretty one and sacrificing the ugly one. Is one this selfish? They care for the pretty looking one they don't know over the one that's ugly that they don't know, I like its being pointed out in this manga. The series spends a lot of time seeing other peoples reactions, some of the people who were deemed worthless killed themselves because of the peoples petty desires. Anyways well you should get some of why Hideo isn't accepted by society- with that being said, the way Hideo confides in himself is depicted as someone only he can see. it calms him down, he knows the person isn't real but its all he could truly trust in. When he was alone in the woods the art beautifully shows how he is detached from society, he doesn't want to be alone. He fears it; Because all of his previous lovers would just abandon him. here are some examples. Its just so good.

This manga is a lot of fun as a whole, it depicts action very well. A lot of the art is a doctrine of photos of real life, this helps a lot like especially when they are in a forest the backgrounds look very real and its great for the setting especially when they have this inane (as a lot are.) zombie chasing after them using their legs first and arms second, they run around the forest and it feels like they are actually in a forest and not in a fictional place. it has a great mix of fun and comedy as a lot of the zombies are inane and wacky, but in a very cool way. I'll get more into that in the next paragraph though, more on what makes it fun-. With the craziness the author implements he has a good mix of reality and being zany making for a great read and not just that. It's also surprisingly a quick read for it being 265 chapters, if one really tried you could finish it in a few days. It's pretty dialogue light, the volumes took me about 20-30 minutes each. It is also very binge-able because it is switching storylines quite often, it's extremely fast paced not even speaking of all the storylines, even as stories on their own each are very captivating and very quick.

This manga can be very creepy and grim, you never know what will happen next because its always something crazy happening. Sometimes it will be a eerie setting in a dark place which was done well when it happened although not that often. It always has this tense sort of feel, very rarely will you get a scene where it feels safe, its great for keeping tension and keeping the read interesting.

It shows the folly of man and how hypocritical they can be. I feel like the word "folly" has been used so much its lost meaning some but I still think its a great word even if corny. Its basically a over exaggeration of how society would act, while its not necessarily that unlikely for this to happen, it makes a lot of sense that such things could happen in such a scenario. Like how shut-ins would blame society or have a complete switch up, like how in this panel you will see after shows, It works well for the comedy and I think its a interesting point to make. This is one point of many I could go for but it treads over similar things so its not worth getting into too much.

I am a hero is in general: A over-exaggeration of how humanity would act, you have the law abiding citizens like Hideo who still stays by the laws even if it’s clearly the only thing he can do, the only way he could survive. You have the overly pessimistic people who blame society though it was their fault for there circumstances. You have all of these archetypes, it goes into a bunch of them like how a lot of people would rather commit suicide than become a zombie and it makes it feel pretty realistic in some way like how they use 2chan; There are multiple chapters solely focused on strangers discussing the apocalypse on the internet, the author really excelled at this part, it really felt like the internet. You had people joking about it, people not taking it seriously, people taking it too far, as with the case with people killing themselves. Obviously not revolutionary but its a very well done take.

The zombies in this manga are simply remnants of humanity controlled by something else. What I mean by remnants is that they still do have some of their individuality left, like how one of the workers for the subway kept saying: "Welcome, pleasure to have you here." that's not the exact wording but a basic idea of what it was, this concept is used in many ways, like one: One of the "zombies" wanted to be jumper for the Olympics, like seeing how far you would jump across the sand; As a zombie he cant jump 30 feet high, using this as a more interesting way of zombies while also making them a lot more fun at the same time. dividing it from any normal zombie thriller series. Showing it's not some normal series, it's a nice refreshing take on the genre.

Even if its small, something can really inspire someone. Hideo's small time manga inspires literature for the future. It's a funny way of showing it, even though he was rejected by society, even though he as a creator was rejected. His work lives on to inspire others, it's a cool way going more into the message about helping others. Helping someone doesn't have to be a literal action, you can inspire someone to take that one step that makes the difference. In the end Suzuki Hideo was a hero. Even if he didn't know it. It also completes his dream of making a manga that would not be forgotten for 100 years, brilliant.

It gives a lot of focus on 2chan and a specific part of that is what their usernames are, instead of 'anonymous' or such they go with the name: "Nameless Hero." Deep down most people really do want to do something great, and it feels as if now with all this they now have the chance to really become a hero. That's the reason I put it as the review title, as it is one of the most important messages in 'I am a hero'

It has a lot of focus on mental illness, specifically it deals with problems with desires, like i went over earlier such as suicide and such; One of the main focuses for main illness is Hideo, now, he does have schizophrenia but also has an attraction to underaged girls, specifically our main heroine ‘Hiromi’. There are many scenes where they do illicit deeds or literally have sex, Hiromi is in high school and underage, Hideo knows this but throughout he slowly starts disobeying the law in which he followed to his utmost best; It’s similar with Hiromi, she has a boyfriend yet still she cheats on him for her selfish desires. Hiromi later gets infected and shows how the virus effects you; In her case she is in a dream like state and it seems to be this way for all of the zombies. She sees all humans as stuffed animals further implying she is a child. She eventually goes insane and tries to kill Hideo blaming him for her problems, its a great character study. I have seen a lot of people misunderstand this part of the manga, thinking the author is a pedophile because he drew a sex scene with a 35 year old man and a young girl. It is simply untrue, he is obviously advocating against it. (Just a small tangent I wanted to get out).

This manga does have issues, it can come of as overly edgy and hammers in some things too much. Also it kept retreading how society acts and putting to much focus on some parts. It feels like a lot of the characters have stuff happen to them just for the sake of the plot and you get some pretty lazy character conclusions and underdeveloped characters. Its fast, too fast; While the speed make it a joy to read it also just goes in and out of different storylines so much so that later in the story you get tonal whiplash.

We also go around the world to see how different societies act, its actually a very cool thing the author does here, there are hive-minds of zombies everywhere around the world, they are essentially letting the humans inside observe what’s happening and their subconscious controls the whole creature, it basically enforces them to think in a specific way, (kind of). They have their own thoughts of their own while most simply talk about their regrets they had in life or blame others there is a concrete goal. Consume all of humanity, essentially. The reason they are doing this is because humans are destroying the world and it is implied the virus is literally mother nature herself, fixing the world. It’s actually one of the most powerful messages done for me mostly for how subtle it was; I showed my friend some panels because one of the cities it focused on was his home city, you see one of the hive-minds at a church completely consuming it. The structure (as pointed out by the friend) is a mix from the same architect, one on his take on how a building built by nature would look and another based on a normal building he made. That’s actually so cool the main message of the story is hidden behind the architecture. There are other things that hinted at this too; It was mentioned after the apocalypse started Tokyo dropped 2 degrees Celsius, and MOST importantly the ending-

At first the ending seems very rushed and underdeveloped which it was, very much so, At first. The saving grace here is the bonus chapter which makes the ending go from bad to amazing: It starts off with amazing art following Hideo after the events of the ending, It shows how he is living and its a pretty fun to see. He has a farm in the middle of the city; Due to no human interaction wildlife has entered the city and Hideo has to deal with them, later in the the chapter he encounters one of the hive-minds, the hive-mind slowly approaches him with its tentacle arms while one area keeps dispensing these creatures; Hideo believes these creatures to be aliens and he tries to kill all the aliens that come out, later, he passes out. When he comes to he finds out it wasn’t aliens… no. They were human baby newborns, the hive-mind offered Hideo these babies to help rebuild earth. Hideo takes the baby and raises her, naming her Hiro, a hero to help raise a whole new generation. I am a hero is about taking care of yourself, taking care of others, taking care of the earth. Love yourself, the Earth is a beautiful place.

In the end I am a hero is a eccentric series that works so well in many ways while it may have been rushed in others. Overall its a beautiful work of fiction, it really is something I want to give a 10 but also something I want to give a 8, it really is a conflicting series.

8/10