It's up on the Viz app so I can finally read more Fool Night!
If you don't know about it, the premise is simple. In Fool Night, it's eternal night, and to survive the loss of natural vegetation, the government literally turns terminally ill people into plants to provide oxygen for the population. It's opt in, and a person is financially compensated, but you have two years to live until you completely transform. This procedure is presented as thoughtful, necessary, and well vetted to prevent abuse up front,.. and then is immediately shown to be thoroughly corrupt.
Unlike a lot of zombie fiction and Mad Max-style apocalypse stories, Fool Night seems focused on how the end of the world would affect a broad society rather than survival as an individual. It's about what depravity a culture will allow to continue to function, and what lies it will tell itself to sleep at night. The characters struggle passively against the environment but mostly against a culture that forces them to continue living even when that starts making little sense.
It also looks amazing. It's still got some goofy stuff so far (there is a plant serial killer that only our special boy protagonist can help track.) But it's been a lovely read so far. Hopefully it keeps up the quality.
It's hard to recommend it on the Viz app right now, but I'm hoping it'll get better. A huge chunk of the center chapters are missing, the translation is stiff and confusing, and there's some distracting black lines running through the gray tone. The bulk of the center chapters sound like they are temporary placeholders from another company, while Viz does their own work to localize it.
If you are comfortable with it, I'd give it a read through unofficial means first and then switch over to Viz when they finish back filling. Definitely looking forward to a physical release.
