James Nicoll Reviews

2023’s The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse, Volume Two is the first tankōbon of Haruo Iwamune’s post-apocalyptic manga. The Color of the End has been serialized in Enterbrain’s seinen manga magazine Harta since March 2022. John Neal’s translation came out in 2025.

Saya has been searching for any sign of human survivors in a world depopulated by the alien Executioners¹. Eluding the aliens is just part of the job. Now, however, she faces a challenge for which the post-human is not prepared:

An overdue book!

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2023’s The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse, Volume One is the first tankōbon in Haruo Iwamune’s post-apocalyptic manga. The Color of the End has been serialized in Enterbrain’s seinen manga magazine Harta since March 2022. John Neal’s translation came out in 2025.

The alien Executioner who descended on Earth little suspected humanity’s pluck and ingenuity. Truly, it was the height of arrogance for the pitiful aliens to believe they could sweep humans aside as easily as a human could sweep aside a small insect. Well…

Fifty years after the Great Disaster, Saya is a special investigator for the Ushimitsu Technical Research Institute. Her mission: to decontaminate crumbling cities and to determine if any humans survived into the present day.

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