Back when the Nintendo DS was released there was an uproar. Everyone and their mothers went and used the wifi connection to browse all the free apps the console offered to the users. One of them was about animation with very minimalistic graphics. Many of those videos got lost with time but the most memorable ones got uploaded on Youtube and some even got so much attention that they developed into something even more massive. The most peculiar animated videos were those of fighting stickmen. Millions of people watched them fight for minutes at a time killing hordes of enemies or just brawling it out between two of them. This is without much exaggeration what Biomega is. I wish I could speak about the series as a whole but theres really not much to say. It starts well with an extremely banal apocalypse zombie premise and nonexistent characters who all look pretty much the same... and then it somehow gets worse. As I already stated multiple times writers should stick to a few ideas not overcomplicate things and stick to them. Alas Nihei couldnt for the life of him do it. Zunichi our protagonist is tasked with the retrieval of Eon Green an important human whos the key to stopping the plague from spreading. This is as much as Im willing to explain since the story decided to get over convoluted. Since he couldnt stay on track with the zombie apocalypse Nihei went full in on cosmic horror/existential dread. He keeps introducing new characters doesnt explain who they are or their motivations and kills them pretty much instantly. It keeps going until after volume 3 he hardresets the world and were transported thousands of years into the future in a whole new dimension/planet to fight off... the same enemies as before. In the end after a thousand years of timeskip to kill off 11 of the 12 main enemy bases they kill the main enemy because of a talking bear who has the power to warp reality because he got transplanted an important characters brain into himself. If this sounds too absurd and childish to be true I have bad news for you. Its frankly baffling that this manga is received so well. The story makes no sense whatsoever the characters are plot devices and look all too similar to even discern and the author refuses to give information hed rather stay vague about it all. Sure some overly engaged fans tried to patch together theories and make it all work out in the end by filling in stuff he didnt say or plan out but Im just left with one question: why? What was the point of adding all this convoluted story? It does not add anything. It hugely subtracts from the experience making it impossible to follow properly without backtracking writing down names and scattering information. The main selling point the drawings are cool. But the paneling is atrocious all characters look the same its almost impossible to follow whats happening during the fights and the author... he doesnt care. He keeps drawing ghastly aberrations and gory fights over and over and over. It almost becomes comical since we dont have any character development. Theres a moment during the end where a little kid meets a blind alien who helps her. He gets his brain splattered over the floor 10 pages later. Its full of scenes like these and I have no idea why. Again the comparison to stickmen fights comes to mind. Nihei just wanted to draw scifi horrors battling it out. Sure ok it would have been a bit too confusing but Id accept that since its easy to read and he has a... peculiar style to say the least. Why did he feel the need to add all that complex stuff? I am bewildered. It almost feels like Nihei intentionally sabotaged his own series. If you want to read a good take on realitywarping dread go give Fire Punch a try. Theres no point in recommending it. Its just insufficient and boring. Initially I wanted to frame Biomega as action junk food. But the problem is that it tries too hard to sound like a Michelin 3star meal forgetting that hes just barely more than a tepid hamburger.