Welcome back, everyone, to a new year and a new set of manga for me to review.
And here we are, starting off 2019 with a good one.
In Ishikawa Yuto's "Wonderland", we follow Yukiko "Yukko" Honda through quite an unusual day.
(And no, she isn't almost asleep on a riverbank when she spots a rabbit with a waistcoat, so let me stop you right there.)
No, when Yukko wakes up one morning, she finds that she, and seemingly everyone else in her city, has shrunk down to a scant few inches tall. After her parents are killed by the family cat, ironically while trying to save her, Yukko sets out on the back of her family's (literally) big friendly dog Poko to find help.
But the Alice allusions don't just end there. When threatened to leave a store because of her dog by Zippo-toting thugs, Yukko finds herself rescued by a foreigner (I guess?) named Alice, who she can just barely understand.
Attempts are made to contact the outside world and to get help from the military barricade around the town. And we all know what the military is really doing when they quarantine off a small town...
Sadly, there isn't all that much shrinking process, for all the talk we've been doing of shrinking. We actually get to see one National Defense Force guy getting his protective suit punctured and then shrinking down like everyone else, but whatever this is is shrinking the people clothes and all.
(Big sorry to all my fellow "shrinking out of clothes" enthusiasts.) :(
There's a fair amount of humor in this manga, as well as plenty of violence, gore and fanservice. The humor itself is a little what I like to call "Japanese", where something silly just happens out of nowhere or right immediately after a lot of serious build-up. For example, Poko being too distracted by dog treats to help out in a battle, or Alice pretending to use the miniature toilet in a dollhouse.
Unlike Attack on Titan, so far this series, Wonderland, seems to be pointing towards a legitimate reason and explanation for things being the way they are. And our Alice seems to be a big part of that. She's definitely more than she seems...
Has my review gotten you interested? I sure hope so. Keep an eye on this blog for eight more manga reviews coming in the new year.
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