History Manga / AliveTheFinalEvolution

The manga was serialized from 2003 to 2010 in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Monthly Shonen Magazine]]''. While there were plans for an an anime adaptation by Creator/{{Gonzo}}, the studio suffered economic problems and cancelled the project [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped in 2010.]] The manga-ka, Tadashi Kawashima, 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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

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 [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped in 2010.]] The manga-ka, Tadashi Kawashima, 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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Asou. He's a Catholic ''priest'', but the trope still applies.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl
* AmbiguousGender: Mitama is evidently a girl.
* AnIcePerson: Nami. Naturally, she's also a {{defrosting ice queen}}. A {{tsundere}} one.
* AntagonistInMourning: Hirose after the events of the penultimate battle.
* AntiVillain: Asou.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Used for a brief gag between Taisuke and Yoko. It's kind of hard to tell if it's serious or not...
* BullyHunter: Taisuke.
* CharacterBlog: Used in an omake.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Hirose towards Megumi.
* CreepyChild: Ron and Yuta at one point.

* EnfanteTerrible: Mitama.

* {{Gonk}}: Okada and Yura.

* {{Tsundere}}: Megumi and Nami.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Taisuke, Hirose, and Megumi.

* YourHeadASplode: Yura's preferred method of execution.

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 [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped in 2010.]] 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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

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

* GoOutWithASmile: All victims of the suicide virus. [[spoiler:So do the Comrades.]] [[spoiler:Also D2.]]

* CutePsycho: Kanon is a cheerful, even kind of ditzy ThirdPersonPerson... and a completely casual murderer.

* EagleLand: Type III. For most of the plot they're working against the protagonists to get possession of the [[AncientArtifact Heart of Akuro]] for their own ends, but [[spoiler:when Hirose gains possession of the Heart, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity promptly goes crazy]] and [[OmnicidalManiac declares war on humanity itself]], they [[ConflictKiller put aside their differences]] and [[EnemyMine team up with the protagonists]] to stop him, showing that they know when enough is enough and they need to work together to save the world.]]

* EagleLand: Type III. For most of the plot they're working against the protagonists to get possession of the [[AncientArtifact Heart of Akuro]] for their own ends, but [[spoiler:when Hirose gains possession of the Heart, he [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity promptly goes crazy]] and [[OmnicidalManiac declares war on the rest of humanity; the U.S. Government [[ConflictKiller see the writing on the wall]] and [[EnemyMine team up with the protagonists]] to stop Hirose before he kills ''everyone.'']]

* HelloNurse: Yoko, a literal school nurse, and has no problem with using it to get what she wants. It comes back to bite her when one of her coworkers confesses to her right before killing himself.

* AccidentalPervert: Taisuke, to Nami. Needless to say, he is lucky to be alive.

* AccidentalMurder: Nami killed a Comrade who killed someone else in front of her on reflex. This leads to her mindset of IHaveComeTooFar and attempting to kill others until she gets talked out of it.

* GoOutWithASmile: All victims of the suicide virus. [[spoiler:So do the Comrades.]]

* HowDoIShotWeb

* [[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.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Taisuke and Kanon [[spoiler:or so it seems...]]

* WalkingTheEarth

* AuthorExistenceFailure: He finished the series, but died shortly afterwards, thus barely averting this trope.

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 [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped in 2010.]] 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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

* {{Badass}}: Nami.

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 [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped in 2010.]]. 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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

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 In spite of that, he succeeded in completing]] ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome Alive]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome while hospitalized.]]

An anime adaptation was announced in 2008 then [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-04/alive-the-final-evolution-tv-anime-formally-dropped dropped in 2010.]]

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

Weeks later, after the epidemic has died down, a couple of bullies at Taisuke's school are brutally murdered and his best friend Hirose is the prime suspect. To his horror, Taisuke discovers that the survivors of the suicide virus- those who contracted the virus but did ''not'' commit suicide- have begun to manifest destructive supernatural powers and are being gathered by an enigmatic man named Katsumata. Hirose turns out to be one of these "Comrades", and is [[MindRape brainwashed]] into joining their cause, kidnapping Taisuke's childhood friend Megumi as he flees north.

* DrivenToSuicide: All victims of the suicide virus. Think ''TheHappening'', but they're much more enthusiastic about it. Happy.