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Japanese: THE POOL


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 11
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 7, 2024 to Aug 7, 2025
Genres: Action Action, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi, Suspense Suspense
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Survival Survival
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: good! Afternoon
Authors: Sakurai, Gamon (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.111 (scored by 675675 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #78932
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #9767
Members: 2,372
Favorites: 8

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Twenty years ago, a wormhole suddenly appeared above Earth's orbit and opened a passageway to an alien planet full of untapped resources and mysterious life forms. Two decades later, Team Sierra, a small military squad of security specialists working for the Tiberius Coke Corporation, are thirty miles away from home base on that planet when their leader, Chief Yugi Oishi, spots an SOS flare coming from a theoretically abandoned mine. Despite the danger, she leads her four-man team to the facility to see who'd called for help, only for it to be attacked by a horde of powerful creatures almost as soon as the doors close behind them. Now, she and the stranded exploratory excavation crew Team Sierra finds inside must traverse the treacherous mine to reach the only vehicle that could get them to safety—without waking the terrifying monster that's been picking off the researchers one by one...

(Source: Kodansha USA)

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Oishi, Yuki
Oishi, Yuki
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Bite
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May 28, 2026
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"There isnt any Pools" -IGN

For a quick sci‑fi horror you can read in under an hour, The Pool excells. It gives you that Classic Alien horror with the stereotypical cast of characters surviving a post-apocalyptic world. The creatures, actions scenes and characters designs are pretty good since its the same artist who worked on Anjin demi-Human.

Its too bad The Pool wasnt given more depth into the charaters and World-Bulding, But considering this manga was cut short. The Pool ultimately feels like a horror action flick that echos the gene pool or biological competition "Only the fittest survive". Which isnt always a bad premise, I ...
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Poll: The Pool Chapter 11 Discussion
Rexnihilo - Aug 15, 2025		 6 repliesby LaLa-Ruu »»
Apr 25, 6:38 AM
very unique traditional sci fi military action that isn't mecha.
Neostorm_Y - Aug 24, 2024		 6 repliesby Darkfiend47 »»
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