Alright, 5 Chapters out so far and I think UU is one of the better series from the new bunch that started this year. It got a nice quick pace, good action panels with good fight choreography and interesting abilities that all starts with "Un-". It also got a lot of controversy due its first chapter but I think bad press is better than no press? At least people talk about it.
Andy is a pretty cool hero: Buff, brutal, badass. His power "Undead" is pretty cool as he uses it to make his own body a weapon as well as using it as speed and jump force.
Izumo is a cute heroine: Adorable, sad backstory due her Unluck (which explains itself I guess) but also a longing for a normal life that her power keeps her from having that makes her somebody you want to cheer for.
As for ch.5 I really liked the focus on Izumo in that one. It was nice to see her all alone without Andy, how she avoided everyone but was still drawn to a girl drawing the lake, she is still a curious girl at heart, someone who says that it blew her mind that she could draw together with a stranger she just meet this day. I think her theme "Change" will be a very interesting one to follow as reader as we all either experienced change for the better or worse or want to change ourself but can't or struggle with it. It showed that Izumo has gone from her suicide thoughts in ch.1 to now see the world, witness new, preferable not deadly, situations and meet new people. Without Andy as "change" interceptor and accelerator that would have never happened. In a way Izumo is the "Osamu" from WT while Andy is the "Yuuma" from WT:
Andy wants to die, Andy WILL die, it is his greatest dream, the goal he had been working towards his whole Unlife. He is strong, experienced, a Veteran. So like Yuuma he takes on the role as the one pushing on the plot and fighting the most dangerous battles.
Izumo now wants to change, she wants a LIFE, a real life where her Unluck does not keep her from happiness. She is caring, naive, a dreamer. So like Osamu she takes on the role as the observer and traveler of the plot which the audience can cheer for and hope for the better end for her as we all know what Andy's end will be.
What was really cool was the tiny world-building bit I totally overread. "There is nothing up in Space expect for the Moon and the Sun, right?". I somehow thought they meant like that you can't see the stars because of the lights of a town but they are at a lake and Gina asked what those "sparkles" were. And ofc the part of "I learned that in school". There is no way any school would teach a kid that only the sun and moon exist in the universe. But that leaves us with the question:
Where are the stars?
Like what happened to them? Since when are they gone? How come that humans don't even have a WORD to describe the sparkles in the nightsky - stars?! That would mean humans never had a reason to invent that word meaning that since the age of the first men they never had a starry sky. It means their whole history must have been different. Traveling the sea would be much harder without a guiding star and astronomy doesn't exist as field of science. Like damn! If this was done by some Un-power then I wonder what kinda power that could be and why that user did that to the stars. Or maybe he or she did something to earth and not the stars in the universe?
