Kentaro Miura is most famously known for his long-running manga “Berserk.†What some don’t know is that Miura has also created some shorter series while writing “Berserk.†One of them is “Giganto Maxia,†which is now available for the first time in America. The manga itself is pretty decent.
One hundred million years after a great cataclysm, the planet is hanging by a thread and it is all a giant wasteland. Delos, a former gladiator for the Empire along with a mystic named Prome, walk across the wastelands in order to defeat giants called Gigantos in order to rejuvenate the planet.
The setting isn’t all that original. In fact, there are plenty of post-apocalyptic settings in manga. This manga takes this setting and has the characters do everything to fix it. That sounds like a creative idea, but very little of it is here. This story is only seven chapters long, but it feels like it needs to be much longer in order to bring its full potential out.
Delos and Prome are probably the best things about this manga. Their interactions with each other are some of the best dialogue in the manga. The uncomfortable way Prome gives her nectar to Delos may incite a cheap laugh, but that cheap laugh is done so perfectly that the reader doesn’t care if it’s cheap.
The art may look similar to “Berserk,†but its tone is completely different. Whereas “Berserk†was dark, gory and had a lot of scary imagery and demons galore, the art here is more toned down. This is especially true with Prome who is a super cute lolicon character which makes certain scenes of her and Delos even more uncomfortable than they already are.
“Giganto Maxia†is a decent offering by Kentaro Miura with some nice art and interesting main leads despite the world not being original and the story needing a few more chapters to feel complete.
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