Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (イキガミ, Ikigami) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. The manga was adapted into a live-action film titled Ikigami in 2008 with Tomoyuki Takimoto as its director.
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| - Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (イキガミ, Ikigami) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. The manga was adapted into a live-action film titled Ikigami in 2008 with Tomoyuki Takimoto as its director.
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit(イキガミIkigami) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. A national prosperity law has been passed in dystopian Japan resulting in citizens between the ages of 18-24 being randomly selected to die for the good of the nation. These citizens are given 24 hour notification of their impending death. These notifications are known as "ikigami". The manga has been adapted into a live-action film in 2008 with Tomoyuki Takimoto as its director.
- Probably the best simple way to describe Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, a Seinen manga series written and drawn by Motoro Mase, is "put Battle Royale and Death Note in a blender and hit 'puree'." That said, the story goes far beyond such a simple explanation.
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| - Cover of the first volume of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as published by Viz Media
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| - Probably the best simple way to describe Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, a Seinen manga series written and drawn by Motoro Mase, is "put Battle Royale and Death Note in a blender and hit 'puree'." That said, the story goes far beyond such a simple explanation. On the first day of school, every child receives an inoculation. Most of them will live their life to its natural conclusion; a small percentage is pseudorandomly injected with a nanocapsule, set to activate itself at a certain point of its life, between the age of 18 and 24, rupturing the aorta and killing the possessor instantly. Nobody knows if he's been chosen until his last day has come: a messenger from the Ministry of Health and Welfare is sent to deliver a notification of death, informing the victim that s/he has only 24 hours left to live. Those notifications are called ikigami - literally "death papers". Ostensibly, the government, through the "National Welfare Act", does this in order to encourage its citizens to be grateful for life. In reality, the Act is a brutal, fascist means of controlling the populace, as those not selected become fearful of what can happen, especially since it is well known that those who protest too much will have a nanocapsule injected into them. The series has both serial and episodic elements - while the series is divided into Episodes revolving around the story of a single ikigami recipient and their last day alive, there is also a larger story arc involving Musashigawa-cho's ikigami messenger, Kengo Fujimoto, and his complex and tortured relationship with his job, the Act, and the people he meets; as well as an arc involving how the Act is seen by society, both in public and in private - and several of the Episodes see the different arcs cross and collide.
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (イキガミ, Ikigami) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. The manga was adapted into a live-action film titled Ikigami in 2008 with Tomoyuki Takimoto as its director.
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit(イキガミIkigami) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. A national prosperity law has been passed in dystopian Japan resulting in citizens between the ages of 18-24 being randomly selected to die for the good of the nation. These citizens are given 24 hour notification of their impending death. These notifications are known as "ikigami". The manga has been adapted into a live-action film in 2008 with Tomoyuki Takimoto as its director.
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