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 (October 2017), it's safe to assume this series has been canned.
Tropes present in Last Hope:
- Celibate Hero: Hiro, although a relationship with Ikuko seems to be blooming. Also, Colleen.
- Clear My Name: Kumagai, Hiro's uncle, framed Hiro for the murder of his parents.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Drake is subjected to this by the alternate-reality school staff.
- Cut Short: It's been on hiatus since 2008.
- Dystopia: The first world they visit.
- Evil Uncle: Kumagai, given that he murdered his nephew's parents and framed him for it.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Hiro and Kumagai's world is Japan-esque.
- Head Pet: Hiccup, particularly with Ikuko.
- Humongous Mecha: The Trimechs of Mech World.
- 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.
- New Transfer Student: Hiro, although he's already been there a while before the plot begins.
- 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: The favorite activity of the alternate-reality school security.)
- Police State: The alternate-reality Maunaloa Institute.
- 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.
- Succession Crisis: Kumagai killed Hiro's parents to seize the throne of his homeworld, but he needs to find Hiro to finish the job.
- 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.
