History Manga / AliveTheFinalEvolution

Imagine ''Film/TheHappening'' turned into a shounen series. And not sucking.

* BrattyHalfPint: Aoi. Throw in SuperSpeed as well and she's essentially the female version of [[TheIncredibles Dashell Parr.]]

The manga has been fairly successful, and was being made into an anime until the company doing it suffered economic problems and cancelled the project. The manga-ka, Tadashi Kawashima, [[AuthorExistenceFailure passed away]] [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-17/alive-manga-writer-tadashi-kawashima-passes-away on June 15th, 2010 due to liver cancer.]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome He managed to finish ''Alive'' while in the hospital however.]]

Imagine ''TheHappening'' turned into a shounen series. And not sucking.

* LittleMissSnarker: Yuta. (A boy.)

* DistressedDamsel: Megumi. To her credit, she made multiple escape attempts.

* {{Otaku}}: Okada, who's the stereotypical fat, [[{{Gonk}} Gonky]] otaku.

This series provides examples of:

''We were alive on this planet, then they arrived.''

Taisuke is an ordinary high school student who spends his days [[BullyHunter protecting]] his childhood friend Hirose from bullies while dealing with the [[{{Tsundere}} scolding]] of his other childhood friend Megumi and his [[PromotionToParent sister-turned-parent]] Yoko.

One day, reports start coming from all over the world of people gleefully killing themselves. Experts are referring to this as a 'suicide virus'. Taisuke is walking home from school when a girl happily jumps off a building and lands right in front of him. As she dies, Taisuke finds himself thinking, "I'm so jealous."

Things take a turn for the worse when the schoolyard bullies are found brutally murdered, and Hirose is the prime suspect. Taisuke then meets a psychotic boy named Yura, who mistakes him for a 'Comrade' before killing a bunch of people with exploding bubbles.

It seems that these Comrades are survivors of the suicide virus, gaining supernatural powers as a result. These Comrades are being recruited by a man named Katsumata, who aims to create a utopia by killing everyone on the planet. When Hirose is found to be a Comrade and is mind raped into joining, he kidnaps Megumi. When Taisuke tries to stop him, he learns that he is also a Comrade.

When Taisuke learns that the Comrades are gathering "up north," he leaves home on his bike, trying to figure out his powers along the way. Joining up with rogue Comrades Yuta and Nami, he sets out to rescue Megumi and Hirose, and may learn the true definition of "alive" along the way.

The manga has been fairly successful, and was being made into an anime until the company doing it suffered economic problems and cancelled the project. The manga-ka, Tadashi Kawashima, [[AuthorExistenceFailure passed away]] [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-17/alive-manga-writer-tadashi-kawashima-passes-away on June 15th, 2010 due to liver cancer.]] He managed to finish ''Alive'' while in the hospital however.

* AntiVillain: Asou.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Morio. At least until Taisuke permanently disfigures his face. Decidedly not MinorInjuryOverreaction.

* DeadLittleSister: Nami's motivation is her dead brother who was casually murdered by Kanon.

* {{Yangire}}: Kanon has a tendency to blow up things she doesn't like. This can range from cars (in order to kill a small child who accidentally ran into her), glasses (because the wearer was ugly), and GPS systems (because it didn't work).

** FridgeLogic: Actually, the boobies would probably have saved her even if they had been real, marking a shocking moment of unprofessional stabbing from a very expert killer.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Hirose towards Megumi.

* OneHitKill[=/=]AlwaysAccurateAttack: Okada's power allows him to make contracts with people by making them promise something. If they break the promise, Okada's personal GrimReaper kills them. Though Yuta's power can delay the victim's death by blocking the GrimReaper from reaching them, the only way to permanently stop it is for Okada to annul the contract.

** [[spoiler:Taisuke]] suffers from this at the beginning of the second story arc. It was pretty comprehensive, and rather disappointing, since he lost most of his CharacterDevelopment. He gets better.

** It's not exactly OneWingedAngel--it's after he takes that form that he becomes impossible to harm.

* [[spoiler:PowersViaPossession: Comrades gain their powers from the knowledge of the arcane workings of the universe contained within the DeathSeeker ghost trying to make them kill themselves.]]

** Also, [[spoiler:Katsumura himself was actually only doing everything in an attempt to kill Mitama and (he believed) save humanity.]]

** [[spoiler:Taisuke]] suffers from this at the beginning of the second story arc. It was pretty comprehensive, and rather disappointing, since he lost most of his CharacterDevelopment. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]

* [[Yangire]]: Kanon has a tendency to blow up things she doesn't like. This can range from cars (in order to kill a small child who accidentally ran into her), glasses (because the wearer was ugly), and GPS systems (because it didn't work).