Hi there! It's been a while since my last post in English so I decided that it's time to do it again. This time I bring you all an awesome manga about hackers and about how can a teenage boy be better than a whole team of the Japanese secret system. Let's go!

Bloody Monday is a shonen manga with elements of drama but, above all, it is a triller: it's kind of difficult to figure out the direction of the story sometimes . That doesn't mean that it's difficult to follow or that you can get lost, what it means is that there's a lot of plot twists that you don't expect although after a while you can see them coming.
This story is about a Japanese teenage called  , whose father works in a secret part of the secret service of Japan(Very secret indeed XD) .The teenage guy, called Takagi Fujimaru, is a hacker called Falcon who acts in secret to send to jail dishonest people(like for example a teacher who was a pervert).
Fujimaru lives a kind of easy life but everything changes when his dad is supposed to be a murderer. That's false and Fujimaru is sure of it but that doesn't change the fact that nobody else believes it so he decides to use his abilities as a hacker to uncover the truth of the crime.
Later on we discover that Fujimaru's dad was charged with a crime related to a virus called Bloody Monday. That virus can kill people and was supposed to be extinct in Russia but a terrorist group found it and they are planning on using it . It's a virus that can be transmitted through contact and there's two ways to avoid dying: using an antiviral if you already have the virus or using a vaccine . The thing is that is very difficult to get an antiviral or a vaccine so the characters have to be very focused and that leads to a lot of situations when an important character dies due to an shortage in vaccines.
The manga is a lot about action and Fujimaru decides to form a little team with his friend in order to be a better asset. That way they are able to defeat several dangerous foes, although I have to admit that is a bit unrealistic sometimes XD.
The organization is managed like a cult and there's several head member, each one with a letter(K, J....). They are trained in martial arts and don't hesitate to kill anyone, even if they have to sacrifice themselves, what makes them a very dangerous threat.
There's several things that are a bit unrealistic about the story but there's one which I found specially funny: there's a moment when an enemy agent is being interrogated. She seems to be isolated but , and here's when it comes the surprise, she has a small gadget in a tooth that allows her to communicate with the enemy by clenching and opening her mouth, which serves as a way to send morse signals.
Seriously?I found it pretty awesome, I mean , it's the first time I've seen something like that but I have to admit that it was odd as hell XD





I loved the manga, because it has a lot of plot twists, there's an awesome hacker, a deadly virus and it has kind a lot of chapters. There's two sequels and a dorama, so the story doesn't end with this one.

Mark: 9.0