Facing the past.
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Yuji Iwahara
Translation/Adaptation: Amanda Haley
What They Say
Traversing Easter Island’s impossibly warped terrain, Kyouma finds himself once more on a collision course with the phantom Coil thief Loser. Both of them have ties to the dimensional wasteland of “nothingness” around them, but the connection runs far deeper than Kyouma realizes. As the truth–about Kyouma’s history, Mira’s body, and even Dimension W itself–slowly comes to light, Kyouma must come face-to-face with the traumatic scars lurking deep within himself…
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
With all the collectors scattered on the island, Kyouma and Mira have teamed up with the digger siblings to work through the tunnels. The pockets of nothingness are random leaving humans to carefully to navigate their surroundings. Kyouma is determined to not only collect any coils possible, but to also face what happened to him and hopefully return the memories he lost.
A thief named Loser, tracks the group down. This isn’t the first time Loser and Kyouma have met. However, this time Lose has number coils in each of his limbs. He challenges Kyouma to remember his lost memories. He claims Kyouma is the person who knows the most about what happened to the island and Loser’s wife. Loser opens a portal to the nothingness and Kyouma falls into it.
Kyouma awakens to relive his memories, not knowing that he is actually not living them now. He is back with the Grendel group training and Miyabi, his almost wife, is in a coma. She needs a new body and Kyouma’s work in Grendel is payment for that. Soon there is unrest in Central Africa in Salva and Lwai’s country and Kyouma is dispatched there with the Grendel group. The king gives Salva the chance to quell the uprest, Salva’s plans may not be what everyone anticipates.
While Kyouma remains unconscious, a hostile robot shows up, and Mira resolutely is determined to keep Kyouma safe. She especially feels she should do this after she learns she is the body that that was supposed to house Kyuoma’s future wife, Miyabi. Knowing Kyouma might see Miyabi in Mira, weighs heavily on Mira’s mind.
Meanwhile, Kyouma is remember that Mira’s maker’s ex-student, Haruka Seameyer, was behind an assassination and responsible for the first coil accident Kyouma saw. More background information is uncovered that Salva save his country with his robots and that he does have some prophetic ability that helped him. Salva’s county isn’t the only place there is unrest and the Council of 60 (towers) argues about what to do.
Loser and his daughter, Ellie, make there way towards ground zero. When they arrive, they are faced with nothing. Loser surmises he needs a key to get in first. Kyouma remains unconscious, but in his memories he is reliving what Haruka Seameyer did and the uncovering of the top secret Easter Island research facility. Haruka is at Easter Island and has convinced all the scientists to join him. All but seven do, and Julien and his wife is the main opposition. Haruka’s reason is that executives do no value scientist and feels that it is the right of the scientific community to be in charge.
Miyabi’s condition takes a turn for the worse and her full body transplant surgery are moved up. When Kyouma arrives, he sees Mira next to Miyabi. It’s then that he realizes he has been ignoring the fact that Mira reminds him of Miyabi. He starts jumping into various memories and figures out what’s going on. He’s then thrown back into his memories by Haruka telling him he is the key and the sole survivor of the nothingness.
In Summary
There continues to many intense and interesting layers to this story. It could have easily been a linear story, but the interlacing bits of past, present and future, give Dimension W, a full, well-rounded story and characters. I’m consistently impressed by the storytelling in this series, but also the way art supports that storytelling. It’s truly is a treat for sci-fi lovers that are looking for something entertaining and intriguing.
Content Grade: A
Art Grade: B+
Packaging Grade: A
Text/Translation Grade: A
Age Rating: Teen
Released By: Yen Press
Release Date: August 29, 2017
MSRP: $13.00
