This manga is running in Jump SQ, and is based on two oneshots that were published in Jump the Revolution in 2005 and 2006. Nobuhiro Watsuki’s previous works are ‘Rurouni Kenshin’, ‘Gun Blaze West’ and ‘Busou Renkin’… so he is a Jump veteran, but a relatively unpredictable one.
I have to be honest at this point: I’m a huge fan of Watsuki’s, and I have been following Embalming since the release of the first oneshot in 2005. I’ve been holding back with a review here because I wanted to be fair and objective… if that’s even possible for reviews. But now is the perfect moment for a first assessment, because the first story-arch is over, and the story shifts to a set of different characters – apparantly, ‘Embalming’ is trying a different kind of structure, with no definite “good guy” main character. That’s exciting, isn’t it?
