ChurchHatesTucker ☑#MangaMonday 86 “Before you go Extinct” by Takashi Ushiroyato (story) & Kanato Abiko (art)
You say you prefer your talking animal comics with a heavy dose of #existentialism? Then you’re going to love this #manga.
This story starts with a bang. Literally. Pen is a penguin intent on hastening their extinction. Merle is warming a stone, in place of an egg. They’re partners, but they don’t understand each others’ actions. Subsequent chapters follow the pair as they reincarnate as different endangered species. They don’t usually carry over their memories, but each time they end up disagreeing about how to react to an uncaring world. Violence figures into many of the stories, usually by humans (the penguin chapters are something of an exception, although even there the tools were the products of humans.)
These stories were serialized in Japan in May of last year. They were collected into a single volume that’s now available in English (Kodansha.)