This was a beautifully illustrated tale. The character design is impeccable, and the world is fleshed out and realistic, despite its post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk setting.
However, the rushed plot let the artwork down. I felt like Akira's story, beginning with the anger she feels towards the world and Iaia could have been developed more. The revolutionary plot felt hurried and didn't have the gravitas it was trying to convey.
I did enjoy it overall, especially the budding familial relationship between Akira and Tika, but I just wanted a bit more depth from everything.

Atari is an angry young woman who never really healed from seeing her mother get gunned down by the government. Living in a dystopian world where the Systema rules everything (government, but basically corporations, that have all the money and power,) citizens are constantly monitored and have to stay in the zones they are permitted in. The wealthy are comfortable, but everyone else is barely scraping by, lacking food and water resources. Atari wants to fight, and one day gets the chance to join some rebels. But could her surrogate mother be right? Is violence never the answer?

The book is about our world, which for a big part is flooded and were big corperate lead the world. Atari sees the unjustice in the world and has this urge to do something about it. But who can she trust and how do you change the world?

I really like the concept of the book and I really loved the illustrations! The world building was straight to the point and was explained well. The background of the main character was also clear from the start, so you understand her motivations.

However the story was a bit rushed in my opinion. The story stayed at superficial level and I think there could have been done more with the world setup. Likewise the relationships felt a bit forced and there was no depth to it.

Apart from the points of improvement the book was enjoyable and did I finish the book in one evening. So I hope this book is like an introduction to the story and that the story gets more depth in book 2.

A Sci-Fi graphic novel, where the world is dying because of humans, only rich people are worthy of living, and the system is against anyone other than wealthy individuals. As any during-apocalypse story, the story is still not so clear, there’s hundreds of questions, but that is how things work in such novels. It’s frustrating but i ain’t complaining!

Yet i do have some complaints; There’s too much texts for a graphic novel sometimes, and things go in unrealistic ways, even human interactions are often cartoonish. It’s a fun read, but i hope the next chapters would be more “real” and more enjoyable.

Side note: the backgrounds drawings and the characters designs is a chef’s kiss! gorgeous!!

‘The oceans were so polluted that nothing could live in them anymore, and these dead seas threatened to annihilate the cities. They had become Noceans.’

Atari & Tika is the first volume in Efa’s newest comic book, Nocean, a dystopian cyberpunk story where pollution has finally taken its toll and people live under a very strict regime, the System, that has confined them in different areas, far from the city centre.
Atari lives with Iaia, a grandmother figure who rescued her when she was just a kid. Atari does not want to conform with the reality she lives in, full of rules and water shortages, and she looks for an exit in what the system calls an eco-terrorism cell, the Drop.
Always bearing in mind that this is a first volume, a presentation of what is really to come, I truly enjoyed the landscape the author presents and the way the art always accompanies a sense of nostalgia with its yellow-brownish palette against the blue of the sky and the sea. Atari is the main character and such, she is the one the reader most gets to know about, but Tika is mysterious enough so that you want to see where the second volume leads us.
On the other hand, it feels as if the Drop gets a lesser treatment, and all of its members merge together in a fog with just one mission in mind. Again, this is a first volume, so we will just have to wait and see.

To sum up, I think this is a very good presentation of both interesting characters and a world full of potential, so count me in to continue reading eagerly.

I really love the cyberpunk dystopian future setting. The story wasn't too bad either. Overall a good volume for teens.
Environmentalist/Anti-capitalism messages

First to the design:
The nice graphics and subdued colors pushed a nostalgic reminder towards the 2000s graphic novels. I do think sometimes the dialogues could be shortened since in some scenes the text seemed too much.

Now to the plot:
A futuristic story that is very intriguing with lots of interesting story points that are easy to understand despite the limited amount of chapters. We have loss, oppression, one (two) badass, tech-savy heroine in a dystopian world. All elements combined create overall a nice story.