Review | Bullet Train – Kotaro Isaka

Bullet Train is a book in the best anime and tokusatsu style, with exciting characters and a narrative that keeps you stuck until the end of this adventure.

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Bullet train, written by Kotaro Isaka and launched in Brazil by Intrinsic Publisher, is a humorous mix of a manga, light novel and Japanese audiovisual. With a quick writing, well done dialogues and a fun story full of criticism of our world society, the book also won an adaptation with Brad Pitt.

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Young Satoshi may seem like an exemplary student, but appearances can be deceiving: behind the innocent facade, there is an extremely cruel psychopath. It is his fault that Kimura's son is in a coma, and as he boards the bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka, the father seeks revenge.

But the two will soon discover that they are not the only dangerous people on board. In wagons right next to them are the clumsy Nanao - perhaps the unluckiest killer in the world - and the lethal duo Tangerine and Lemon. To make the situation even more tense, before long a mysterious suitcase will bring the fates of these five characters to cross in a dramatic way. But after all, why are they all on the same train?

Full of action scenes, Bullet train brings absurd moments, iconic characters and scathing quotes in a thriller whose twists lead to an intense read until the end.

But Kotaro Isaka's book goes beyond just 5 mysterious characters on a train. They are figures with more than interesting personalities. Nanao may be unlucky, but he has curious layers that really reflect our insides. Who hasn't lived their Peter Parker days, where – when – something goes right, an avalanche of bad luck appears to end it all?

Or who doesn't have a friend who always needs to make comparisons with that famous franchise at every moment? In this case, the fruit duo. It's the two that are left, Kimura and Satoshi, better known as the Prince, that things turn to the more serious side.

Here the humor side is forgotten and criticism of bullying and hateful dialogues earn points that at times were even forgotten by our society, such as the Rwanda Genocide. And that is still so current. The Prince makes an analysis of how the human being behaves, of his sordidness and vulnerability.

Kimura, on the other hand, doesn't let us forget how easy it is to fall into a hole and not want to get out of there, always with many excuses from who is to blame for being there or to keep being dragged more and more into dark places, until something pulls him. fully, but it seems already too late.

Bullet train it's a book that is fun at first, but that little by little, or with each season, takes on darker tones. It's like watching a crime thriller movie or even some kind of anime.

Another interesting point is that the author seems to know that his book would become an international work, as he insists on explaining – in a curious way – the functioning of the line in which history and even Japanese culture occurs.

Bullet train is a book that excites for its unique narrative, charismatic characters and a new mystery that presents itself with each new door that opens inside each car. In addition, their characters often resemble supersentais, and those who are more fans of this style of story, will certainly give the colors to each character.

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