To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (かつて神だった獣たちへ Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e) is a manga written and illustrated by Maybe. The series is serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, and has been recently published by Vertical Comics. for english audiences.
Plot[]
In order to end the war, humans chose to abandon their bodies as humans. After the war, they were made "gods" but were regarded as "beasts"... What will be the fate of the beasts once called "gods" after the war? Will they have a bright future?
Through the forests of despair, through the moors of mourning, through the seas of anguish, the lonely "White wolf god" wandering between the paths of darkness and light and the netherworld of time. In order to kill to kill his former comrades… to hunt all of the "alien beasts" that harm the world... Even hunting the "misshapen" ones, embark on an unending journey of violence. A young girl wandering alone in the wasteland of decayed bones and wreckage, carrying a gun barrel. The town as far as the eye can see, a secret that cannot be told to anyone.
Is living a sin? Where is the end of this long journey? What was the "beast" created for? What are them fighting for and surviving to this day? What secret and sad past happened to the "white wolf god" who hunted many "beasts"? Can "it" find a glimmer of redemption and everything called hope and survival? In order to give the "beasts" a complete answer to salvation and survival, the mysterious man and girl's journey to mourn to the Abandoned Sacred Beasts.
Summary[]
In a country called Patria with a history of centuries of democracy and many industrial civilizations and agricultural cultures, Northern Union of Patria and Southern Confederation of Patria have begin the war ten years. Since the South had the war power to suppress the North, the North decided to secretly use forbidden and forbidden technology to turn their soldiers into special soldiers called Incarnates to fight against the South.
Incarnates are special humans. They sacrificed their humanity to gain the great power of becoming beasts. For this reason, the North defeated the South with the help of the Incarnates, but they negotiated and reconciled privately with the South, unable to bring anything to the people. True peace, because Incarnate was called a "gods" and "hero" by people on the battlefield. However, the power of Incarnate is unbearable to humans. This power will corrode human nature and mutate the human body. People are afraid of the power of Incarnate. From the war to the present, the Incarnates who were once called "gods" have now become "Beast" who were attacks Human make some people began to be afraid of Incarnate. Therefore, some Incarnates who became "beasts" were hunted by a man related to them who became a "beast hunter".
Fives years later, a girl named Nancy Schaal Bancroft pointed an elephant gun at the man in a remote town not long after her father, who had become Incarnate, was killed by a "beast hunter". However, the "beast hunter" was unharmed. Although Schaal' s intentions were revealed to him, he was left to deal with pressing matters: the murder of the Incarnate who had turned into a beast. During the conflict, Schaal discovers that Hank Henriette, the "Beast hunter" who killed her father, is actually an Incarnate, and his motivation for hunting Incarnate stems from the oath he once made to their Incarnate troops: that any Incarnate who loses their humanity will be taken down by one of their own. Hank invited Schaal to accompany him on his journey. Schaal follow Hank and saw he hunting Incarnate, she gradually understood his sad experience with many Incarnates and that scene and the hidden secrets and truth of war.
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