Yūma Kuga (chapter)

Yūma Kuga (空閑 遊真, Kuga Yūma) is chapter 2 of the World Trigger manga.

Long summary
I thought the biggest surprise of the first chapter was that Osamu was a Border agent. That seemed to have come out of nowhere when he pulled out his lightsaber Trigger of sorts to try to save the day. Of course, his was too weak and required Yuma to help, but still, who would have thought the one everyone was bullying would actually be in Border? Yuma surprised us as well by saying that he was a Neighbor. Perhaps we were all falsely led by the belief that those that are Neighbors are just these science fiction-inspired masses that are capable of interdimensional travel. Although, we did overlook the detail that these people from Border originally came from there as well. Somehow Osamu hadn’t been informed that the people of Border, who brought such technology, are Neighbors, and that these creatures actually have names and classes — for example, Trion Grunt. Who is the group that is using these creatures to assault this dimension and Border?One of the aspects I liked in chapter one, and yet again twice in this chapter, is the concept of bullying and finding ways to handle it. Poor Osamu falls victim to it each time, but at least Yuma takes action in both cases. Here, almost being forced to fork over money, Yuma somewhat agrees to what these people want, but only after teaching them a bone-breaking and crucial lesson. Perhaps next time they won’t pray on innocent bystanders and foreigners. The second time was the lesson that lying is bad, which was kind of hilarious in a sort of strange way, seeing how he could tell they were bad at lying. Once again the manga focused on his eye, like it did in chapter one when he was telling the teacher about his ring. Does Yuma have some ocular abilities yet revealed?World Trigger is off to a good start. Yuma is an interesting character who lives life by his own set of morals. Sure they may be a bit juvenile and a bit heavy on the violent side, but it appears as if he is truly a foreigner to the society in the human world of today. With Osamu’s help, he could learn to do the right thing in Japan.Most interestingly was the part in which he was hit with a car and then went into a self-healing mode. What percentage of his body is of Neighbor origin? Are Neighbors not human but can form themselves in such a way to look like humans? It is hard to say, but hopefully the writer addresses it swiftly.

Characters in order of appearance

 * 1) Shūji Miwa
 * 2) Yōsuke Yoneya
 * 3) Yūma Kuga
 * 4) Osamu Mikumo