About Zetman

Zetman (ゼットマン, Zettoman) is a manga series by Masakazu Katsura. The series started as a one-shot in a series of four published in the Shueisha Weekly Shōnen Jumpmagazine between 1989 and 1994, and collected into a tankōbon released in 1995. A more mature and full-fledged series started in the seinenYoung Jump magazine in 2002. The initial volumes were positively reviewed while the later ones have been criticized for losing some of its initial originality.

Plot

The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and Alphasz, and then traces their origins – Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Kouga Amagi, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as Alphasz.

The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players, who ironically are the creations of the Amagi Corporation, the company founded by Kouga’s grandfather, Mitsugai Amagi.

Main characters

Jin Kanzaki (神崎 人, Kanzaki Jin, or ジン Jin)/ZET: The main protagonist. A mysterious young man bearing a circular lump on the back of his left hand, Jin was a result of the Z.E.T. Project by the Amagi Corporation to create the perfect being to fight and destroy the escaped Players. He was however released by Gorou Kanzaki, who wanted nothing more for Jin than to grow up as a normal human. After the death of his ‘grandfather’, Kanzaki, Jin stayed with Akemi Kawakami until he witnessed her ‘death’ under the hands of the Amagi Corp., in an effort to retrieve their creation. He has been living in a slum alone ever since, monitored closely by his creators, especially Mitsugai.