Last Hope is an
original English-language manga by Michael Dignan and Kriss Sison, published by
Seven Seas Entertainment. The series focuses on a group of teenagers who get dragged along with a fugitive extra-dimensional prince, running from parallel world to parallel world and trying to survive.
Two volumes were released by Seven Seas; a third has been on hiatus for some time, but the company claims it should be out
soon. Note that the company said this
back in 2008
. Owing as there has been little news as of this writing (April 2010), it's safe to assume this manga has been canned.
This comic provides examples of:
- Action Girl (Lisbeth, of Mech World)
- After the End (Mech World)
- Alternate Universe
- Another Dimension
- Badass Normal (Hiro)
- Big Creepy Crawlies (The Scavengers in Mech World.)
- Bug War (Mech World)
- Celibate Hero (Hiro, although a relationship with Ikuko seems to be blooming. Also, Colleen.)
- Clear My Name (Kumagai, Hiro's uncle, has framed Hiro for the murder of his parents.)
- Cold-Blooded Torture (Drake is subjected to this by the alternate-reality school staff.)
- Cut Short (Although that may be changing.)
- Dystopia (The first world they visit.)
- Evil Uncle (Kumagai)
- Falling into the Cockpit (In Mech World.)
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture (Hiro and Kumagai's world is Japan-esque.)
- Five-Man Band
- Head Pet (Hiccup, particularly with Ikuko)
- Humongous Mecha (The Trimechs of Mech World.)
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold (Drake)
- Heroic Sacrifice (Drake sacrifices himself once to save Colleen, and gets tortured as a result; after the team busts him out, he sacrifices himself again, kicking Hiro through the closing portal to the next world.)
- Love at First Punch (Drake is persistently attracted to Colleen, despite her telling him outright she's not interested.)
- The Multiverse
- Must Have Caffeine (Colleen)
- New Transfer Student (Hiro, although he's already been there a while before the plot begins.)
- Noble Fugitive (Hiro)
- Obfuscating Stupidity (Alvin, a genius, pretends to be an average student so he can fit in.)
- Parental Abandonment (Hiro's parents were murdered by his uncle Kumagai.)
- Alvins parents sent him away to college as a kid since he was doing such crazy things like talking as an infant.
- Police Brutality (Favorite activity of the alternate-reality school security.)
- Police State (The alternate-reality Maunaloa Institute.)
- Schedule Slip It was nearly a year between volumes 1 and 2, and volume 3 never came out.
- The Short Guy with Glasses (Alvin)
- Shout Out (The passwords in Mech World, which the main characters identify as such.)
- Side Kick (Tom is Drake's sidekick, but he stays with the group when Drake stays behind.)
- Smitten Teenage Girl (Ikuko, towards Hiro)
- Stern Chase
- Succession Crisis (Kumagai killed Hiro's parents to seize the throne of his homeworld, but he needs to find Hiro to finish the job.)
- Teen Genius (Alvin)
- Tomboy and Girly Girl (Colleen and Ikuko)
- Tsundere (Colleen)
- TV Genius (Alvin enrolled in a regular high school specifically to avoid becoming this.)
- Unpredictable Results (Hiro's navigation device, the Himmelskarte, is damaged; without it, his travel device, the Absprung, can only transport them to a random world.)
- Walking The Multiverse
- You Can't Go Home Again
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