IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ MY WHOLE COMMENT, AT LEAST READ THE 1st PARAGRAPH. I was so excited to see a sci-fi with high ratings - why the hell did people rate it so high, I mean it if you could understand it all, you would know how stupid it is & if you couldn't, why rate it so high? So frustrating! This was so friggin hard to read, not cos I couldn't follow what they’re saying - I understood it - but cos it was so abundantly clear that this mangaka should not be writing this genre. They clearly don't have the level of intellectual understanding to write sci-fi because everything is written superficially. Leaving me with the conclusion that even though this mangaka MAY have done some research in writing this, they didn't understand the research OR they MAY have researched with bias, having decided on their story they cherry picked the information. I noticed many said they couldn't understand it - thats because when truly understanding a concept, you can communicate it so that anyone can understand it. So who am i to claim this mangaka is dumb, especially seen as how they seem to know all those important words. Take the 1st eg. of a statement that had huge major flaws, it made me pissed (statements with minor flaws before it, eg. the 1st sentence of the “scientist”-pg.9=there have been experiments B4 the 1 he mentions- but it tells us that it may be the, then popular, experiment that prompted them 2 try 2 write sci-fi). The 1st statement 2 majorly annoy me (pg.9), “If cloning becomes legal, then it will cause problems for our already unbalanced society. For example, if some maniac decides to clone Adolf Hitler, it would become an issue”. Leaving behind human cloning debates & debates on the state of human society in 2002 (pub.date), as they are moral & therefore debatable, my problem is with the Hitler statement. I think what happened is the mangaka tried to make the common philosophical question of: “if you could travel back in time would you go back and kill Hitler as a baby” fit and it doesn't - any knowledge in history, cloning, sci-fi, philosophy or the concept of nature vs. nurture would tell you that. Though everyone hates Hitler, he was a product of his time & both his behaviour & hatred towards Jews came from his life experiences. Also, his hatred of Jews is contested as perhaps not as intense as everyone believes as he might not have even known the full extent of what was being done to them. Many historians, with evidence, believe it was his general who was the driving force behind it all, showing many Germans of that time hated Jews. Anyway, my point is, that if you were to clone Hitler he wouldn’t turn out the same. He wasn't born a jew hating psychopath - if he were ,there would be no philosophical debate about time travel - & there is no way to transfer memories. Even if there was, i doubt you could do it without the original corpse. Besides I could think of hundreds of better, more constructive uses of a maniac’s time then making a useless baby Hitler. The superficial logic continues throughout, for an angel that has so much time to sit around and think, he sure didn't think long or well about his argument & in both stories there were even self contradictions - was it even edited? Also, hearing what the angel said, it could be stated that the angel was only ‘that way’ because of how they had raised & used him - making his choice to continue being a cannibal their fault. Anyway, if you read this Manga and think its too intelligent for you to understand - don't.
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ MY WHOLE COMMENT, AT LEAST READ THE 1st PARAGRAPH.
I was so excited to see a sci-fi with high ratings - why the hell did people rate it so high, I mean it if you could understand it all, you would know how stupid it is & if you couldn't, why rate it so high? So frustrating! This was so friggin hard to read, not cos I couldn't follow what they’re saying - I understood it - but cos it was so abundantly clear that this mangaka should not be writing this genre. They clearly don't have the level of intellectual understanding to write sci-fi because everything is written superficially. Leaving me with the conclusion that even though this mangaka MAY have done some research in writing this, they didn't understand the research OR they MAY have researched with bias, having decided on their story they cherry picked the information.
I noticed many said they couldn't understand it - thats because when truly understanding a concept, you can communicate it so that anyone can understand it.
So who am i to claim this mangaka is dumb, especially seen as how they seem to know all those important words. Take the 1st eg. of a statement that had huge major flaws, it made me pissed (statements with minor flaws before it, eg. the 1st sentence of the “scientist”-pg.9=there have been experiments B4 the 1 he mentions- but it tells us that it may be the, then popular, experiment that prompted them 2 try 2 write sci-fi). The 1st statement 2 majorly annoy me (pg.9), “If cloning becomes legal, then it will cause problems for our already unbalanced society. For example, if some maniac decides to clone Adolf Hitler, it would become an issue”. Leaving behind human cloning debates & debates on the state of human society in 2002 (pub.date), as they are moral & therefore debatable, my problem is with the Hitler statement. I think what happened is the mangaka tried to make the common philosophical question of: “if you could travel back in time would you go back and kill Hitler as a baby” fit and it doesn't - any knowledge in history, cloning, sci-fi, philosophy or the concept of nature vs. nurture would tell you that. Though everyone hates Hitler, he was a product of his time & both his behaviour & hatred towards Jews came from his life experiences. Also, his hatred of Jews is contested as perhaps not as intense as everyone believes as he might not have even known the full extent of what was being done to them. Many historians, with evidence, believe it was his general who was the driving force behind it all, showing many Germans of that time hated Jews. Anyway, my point is, that if you were to clone Hitler he wouldn’t turn out the same. He wasn't born a jew hating psychopath - if he were ,there would be no philosophical debate about time travel - & there is no way to transfer memories. Even if there was, i doubt you could do it without the original corpse. Besides I could think of hundreds of better, more constructive uses of a maniac’s time then making a useless baby Hitler.
The superficial logic continues throughout, for an angel that has so much time to sit around and think, he sure didn't think long or well about his argument & in both stories there were even self contradictions - was it even edited? Also, hearing what the angel said, it could be stated that the angel was only ‘that way’ because of how they had raised & used him - making his choice to continue being a cannibal their fault.
Anyway, if you read this Manga and think its too intelligent for you to understand - don't.