What comes to your mind when you hear the manga title being War of the Adults?

Do you think the manga is about the social, gender, and political injustice of any kind?

Well, I don’t blame you for thinking that way, no thanks to the landscape we live in today.

With many Hollywood celebrities, in particular, making social and political statements as a form of virtue signaling, it can feel like this manga is just another propaganda mouthpiece.

That’s what the manga is all about, right?

It’s about the adults’ raging war against one another to fight injustice.

Rest assured, the manga is none of those.

For the most part, it feels more like how a concerted cancel culture looks with the help of technology and the will of the people.

If it sounds like a surveillance state to you, it actually is.

What the manga is all about

Here’s the book cover description that I got from MANGA Plus.

What makes a ‘proper adult’? Inspired by the words of his late father, Yutaro Urashima sought to become an upstanding member of society by developing and strictly adhering to his own “Articles of Adulthood.” Little did he know, however, that those same articles would go on to dramatically change the world… A new series from the author of Hidarikiki no Eren! Witness the dramatic battle for survival in a surveillance society where reputation is everything!

What got me to read the manga

Well, you know the drill when you discover a new manga on MANGA Plus – you read it right when it just came out.

And then you decide whether you want to read the manga beyond the first chapter or not.

That seems to be the case with me as well.

I read the manga only because it happens to be there on MANGA Plus.

Will I read the manga if there’s no MANGA Plus?

Sad to say, I don’t, unless I decide to give the manga a try after stumbling upon the manga PV by accident.

What makes the War of the Adults manga worth reading

It’s already bad enough that you finally wake up 15 years after being in a comatose state.

And now, the world you know is no longer how it used to be.

Not only do you have this political party established based on your own life philosophy.

But it even constructs a social rating system based on that same philosophy, where no good deeds go unnoticed, even the smallest ones.

Merits don’t matter as much as they used to.

If anything, your good deeds matter more than anything else, as if the afterlife somehow overlaps with the living world.

Do more good deeds, and heaven will be your reward; hell is what you deserve if you do bad things.

Except this afterlife system adopted by the Garden is filled with loopholes that some people can manipulate with ease.

What’s eerie about the Garden concept in this manga isn’t about the government convincing the general masses to adopt this surveillance system for the betterment of society as a whole.

And it’s not about the bad people taking advantage of the Garden loopholes either.

If anything, the fact that the Garden system resembles the Social Credit System in China is what I find the most eerie.

Sure, you can argue that this sort of system will never fly in whichever country you live in.

Heck, it’s a work of fiction. Why should you worry about fictional things?

Yes, this manga is entertaining, to say the least.

But the manga also points out that this kind of system isn’t that far off from the future.

For all we know, it’s already here unbeknownst to us, causing us to get caught flat-footed.

Alas, we’re no different from Yutaro, who finally wakes up after being in a vegetative state for 15 years.

What I didn’t expect when I read the manga

I won’t deny that I’m never a fan of live-action of any kind, save for a few that I find to be well-made.

But the rest of them are just plain awful and odd, especially when the story revolves around a character that has an unusual hair color, such as silver.

It’s fine for the stage play to adapt the story that revolves around characters with unusual hair color.

But in the live-action movie and drama?

It feels like you’re seeing a cosplayer getting an acting gig.

Funnily enough, I agree with this one comment on MANGA Plus, saying that this manga will make a good live-action adaptation.

Just to be clear, I will still support if the manga gets an anime adaptation.

But I can’t help but feel like the manga is better suited for the live-action adaptation instead of the anime adaptation.

Yup, it’s hard to believe that I support the manga getting a live-action adaptation despite not being a fan of live-action of any kind.

Who should read the manga?

There’s no doubt this manga is certainly for you if you’re a huge fan of Black Mirror and the anime PSYCHO-PASS.

The only difference is that the story in this manga takes place in present-day Japan, unlike Black Mirror and PSYCHO-PASS, where the story takes place in the near future.

And it’s not that speculative either, considering the system has been around in China for eons at this point.

If a speculative element is what you’re after, you may not get it from this manga.

But if you want to know how the story will eventually unfold in the end, then it’s worth sticking around.

And I hope you do, since I’m curious to see how things will turn out in the end, not just for Yutaro but also for everybody else.

Where to read the War of the Adults manga

As always, you can read the manga online on MANGA Plus.

Even better?

You don’t need to subscribe to any of the paid plans to read the manga.

But you will need to download the app if you want to read the chapters in between, though, since only the first and the latest few chapters are available to read on the website.

Interested in giving this manga a try?

You can start reading the manga right here on MANGA Plus:

Read the War of the Adults manga on MANGA Plus

It’s too bad that the manga has yet to be licensed for the English release in print and digital format as I write this.

But if you want to get the manga in print and you can read Japanese, you can get the manga right here on CDJapan:

Buy the War of the Adults manga in Japanese at CDJapan

Over to you

What do you think about the War of the Adults manga? Are you interested in giving this manga a try after reading about it on my blog?

Let me know in the comments.

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