Ryo, Hayato, Yakeshi and Kei are all ARMS – mere children implanted with nanotech limb enhancements that cause them to transform into grotesquely deformed and out-of-control super weapons. The four ARMS have come to New York in pursuit of the Keith series. Takeshi remains in a persistent vegetative state with now response to the world outside his head. Together with the Blue Men, the others must invade Carillon tower, the enemy stronghold, only to be split into two groups because of Black’s insidious trap. Carillon tower is the headquarters of the Egrigori, the organization that aspires to engineer the future of mankind with a race of cyborgs. As the kids try to destroy the organization’s facilities, they run up against the Next – an advanced series of cyborg soldiers stronger than anything Ryo and his friends have ever faced before.

Again, Project Arms continues to impress with its brutal action sequences and the stunning attention to detail that is captured in every page. The attention to detail in the backgrounds, rubble and destruction is the most impressive part of the artistic goodness of this particular piece. If any recommendation could be made to fans of classics like Akira and other cyber-punk affair, Project Arms would top the list. This manga is a wonderful mess of future technology and people colliding in a way that brings out the most desperate and violent conflict. The story is good, but the visuals and the action are what make it really stand out. Sometimes it’s nice to have something that doesn’t require an overload of thought and just delivers some bone crunching, head exploding nasty stuff – and that’s something that project Arms doesn’t tend to shy away from. This volume really steps up the damage, most of it focusing purely on the awesome action sequences that this series does so well. If it hasn’t been mentioned before, this series contains some of the best word bubbles and text you could hope for. It’s very readable, being a perfect size and using a very good text format. There’s no squinting when reading Project Arms. All in all it’s great. There’s not much of anything bad to be said of this series.

IN SUMMARY:
Fans of cyber-punk action anime and manga will be pleased to pick this one up, but any action fan should be able to find a number of things about this series that they really enjoy as well.