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Hungry Joker

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Background

Hungry Joker is a manga written and illustrated by Yūki Tabata published in the weekly shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump published by Shueisha since November 2012 in the 50th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump. Hungry Joker is the 609th brand new manga series that has been published in the magazine. The story follows a mysterious genius scientist Haiji and his assistant Chitose Toriiooji. They were called to solve the mystery of a glowing corpse. After they took the body, they suddenly got attacked by a mysterious monster that came from the glowing corpse, this made Haiji eat the mysterious Black Apple which healed him and gave him supernatural powers. Haiji tries to figure out more about the Black Apple. The series ended in May 2013 in the 24th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, after the publishing of 24 Chapters. The series goes about a mysterious scientist named Haiji, known as a genius and his clumsy assistant Chitose Toriiooji. They received a call from one of the police officers that there was a strange body that glows which contains to be a so called "glowing corpse". Haiji decided to go to the place alongside with Chitose. Haiji then took the glowing corpse to the lab for autopsy. As Haiji explains his past which he has stated that his only memories where the glowing corpses and the mysterious Black Apple the glowing corpse they took for autopsy has been transformed into a mutant. The monster attacks Haiji and Chitose which Haiji has been damaged at his stomach. Haiji asks Chitose to bring him the Black Apple which he took a bite from it and gave him supernatural abilities which Haiji succeeded to kill the monster. A few days later they where been attacked when Haiji was brought to a hospital. Haiji came to know about Eureka from the "kid behind a theatre mask" named Kildo.

Terms

  • Eureka: Eureka is a term that defines items that can give their users different levels and aspects of enhanced capacities, depending on how it is used and the degree of compatibility of the user with them.
  • White Joker: White Joker is the secret World Science Rescue Intelligence created by the United Nations to deal with unnatural subjects, such as the Eureka and Mavro's actions.
  • Mavro: Mavro are a terrorist organization and the primary antagonists of Hungry Joker. Viewing the humans as inferior, they execute many attacks attacks against them, mainly using their large arsenal of Eureka. It's known that all of their members wear pitch black clothes, overall giving them a black theme.

Power of the Verse

While regular humans are Human level through the use of Eurekas, characters are able to reach Building level in power, and go from Superhuman to Faster Than Light speeds. They also get an abundance of abilities such as, Gravity Manipulation, Metal Manipulation, Sound Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Blood Manipulation, Black Hole Creation, etcetera.

Knowledgeable Members

Characters

White Joker

Mavro