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A review by thebookbin
No. 6, Volume 6 by Atsuko Asano, Hinoki Kino
dark
funny
tense
5.0
I’m at work and volume 6 came in so I read it while I was working the register.
Already it’s so different from the anime, and bringing in themes of innocence and culpability. Someone attacks Nezumi and Shion goes to defend him. He has a wire in his hands and wraps it around the attackers' neck. He is willing to kill to save Nezumi. But Nezumi is the one who stops him—even though this whole time he’s been trying to teach Shion that the idyllic world inside No. 6 is only possible because of the suffering of those deemed unworthy. But when faced with Shion losing the innocence he should have as a 16 year-old, Nezumi can’t bear it and stops him from killing.
This also comes up again later, when we learn that Nezumi is the survivor of a genocide perpetrated by the city and his goal is to do the same to the residents of No. 6. But he’s confronted with his own loss of innocence as a child, and what he would be doing to the children living in the city who haven’t done anything wrong themselves.
I literally cannot believe how much better this is than the anime, although to be real I probably would have loved the anime when it came out in 2013 because we were all starving for representation back then and were feasting on crumbs.
5/5 no 6 stars
Already it’s so different from the anime, and bringing in themes of innocence and culpability. Someone attacks Nezumi and Shion goes to defend him. He has a wire in his hands and wraps it around the attackers' neck. He is willing to kill to save Nezumi. But Nezumi is the one who stops him—even though this whole time he’s been trying to teach Shion that the idyllic world inside No. 6 is only possible because of the suffering of those deemed unworthy. But when faced with Shion losing the innocence he should have as a 16 year-old, Nezumi can’t bear it and stops him from killing.
This also comes up again later, when we learn that Nezumi is the survivor of a genocide perpetrated by the city and his goal is to do the same to the residents of No. 6. But he’s confronted with his own loss of innocence as a child, and what he would be doing to the children living in the city who haven’t done anything wrong themselves.
I literally cannot believe how much better this is than the anime, although to be real I probably would have loved the anime when it came out in 2013 because we were all starving for representation back then and were feasting on crumbs.
5/5 no 6 stars