ABARA: “Has a Story,” and Other Thoughts
. . . I think it would kind of spoil things for readers if I explain too much about the hows and whys of what happens in my stories. I think the most interesting science fiction stories have a certain degree of mystery to them, where they don't completely explain everything to the reader. “ Interview: Knights of Sidonia Mangaka Tsutomu Nihei ” (26 Aug. 2016) This piece contains full spoilers for Tsutomu Nihei’s graphic novel/manga series ABARA and will also contain quick, early-series spoilers for Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan . It contains some brief NSFW discussion but also discussion and images of grotesque violence. When incorporating quotations from ABARA , I’ve had to make certain presentational changes. The original text is effectively in all caps, but I’ve tried to present it with “normal” capitalization to make it more readable in this format, which means I’ve also occasionally made personal calls about what words to leave capitalized in a couple of the ...