Project ARMS - Weapon Hazard
What is the most powerful weapon ever created by human ?, some stories tells us that human soldier itself is the deadliest weapon that can be created, movies like Terminator, Universal Soldier, etc describe very well how human can be very dangerous.
But does anyone ever explore deeper on how human shape figure can appear to be a weapon ?, its more than just carrying gun or knife, something related to advance technology, lets say laser, cyborg, nanotech, etc. Ryoji Minagawa (Spriggan) push all this issue to its limit on his Manga called “Project ARMS”, if you ever read Spriggan you can see the original idea of this weapon exploration coming from.
The story is about four youngster that actually part of bio-engineering weapon project that gives them bodypart-weapon implant called ARMS, further these ARMS have its own manifestation that try too take over their body and mind. EGRIGORI is the worldwide foundation who responsible for everything, and each chapters showing the battle between ARMS and Egrigori’s agents, what intense me is that along the story the agent got more advance type of battle, from ordinary cyborg, ESP user, bio-engineered soldier until group of what they call “successors”, and in the last chapter they will also fought group of evil ARMS.
Another attractiveness of this Manga is that every terminology is taken from “Alice in Wonderland” story, the four ARMS are Jabberwok, Knight, White-Rabbit and Queen of Heart, the other ARMS are Humpty-Dumpty, Cheshire-Cat, etc, character Alice also play role as an artificial intelligent of a powerful supercomputer. All this chapters presented elegantly that bring the reader slowly to the main answer and didn’t seems to desperately lengthen the series like any other mainstream Manga titles.
What if you can make a hole at the wall just by looking at it ?, what if you can make an explosion a miles radius without yourself getting hurt ?, what if you can control nuclear warhead missiles launch with only your mind ?, what if you can cut through dimension ?. All this question can be seen and enjoyed at Project ARMS,
Yet another marvelous effort from Ryoji Minagawa on exploring humanity act beyond the limit.
“Do you want power ?, if you want power, then you shall have power !!!” (Jabberwok, Project ARMS, 1997)
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