When I started reading this manga, I was immediately reminded of a certain show due to the presence of an unknown threat with gigantic stature. Thankfully, the similarities end there, with Moon Ciders’ taking its own route toward the sci-fi genre.
Moon Ciders Manga Review
Moon Ciders is a webcomic about a teenager named Usagi Mitsuoka – an ordinary, slightly gloomy high schooler to those not close to him.
Humanity decided to colonize the moon, and everything was going swell until “it” – the giant moon rabbit reminiscent of folklore tales – decided to show up and start eating people. Everybody thought humanity was doomed, and even had “humanity is over” trending on social media as they went about their daily lives and left the fate of their world to the masked hero – Moon Cider.
After his strange defeat by Gekko, the monstrous rabbit…humanity was honestly kind of okay.
Only one person gets eaten per day, and despite a 3-year timeskip, all “it” does is slightly glare at ordinary citizens like Usagi (also named “rabbit”) each time “it” (Gekko) is looming in the distance over their shared part of town.
While waking up from dreams that replay his greatest failure and feeling a deep sense of existential dread over an incident from his past, Usagi has to juggle friendship with a cheerful girl named Ringo (apple) who wants to eat moon-themed cakes, and deal with Moon Shield and its newest set of teenage recruits – Team Ondori, or “Rooster”.
Through interactions with adults from Moon Shield like Kaki, we learn that apparently, the adults of the highly civilized moon colony literally have no idea how to handle threats like “it” or Gekko.
The story seems to be setting up in the first two episodes the exploration of why “it” is so powerful, what happened to the team briefly featured in Usagi’s dream sequence, and why Gekko and “its” moonwalkers have been pacing out their destruction of humanity’s moon colony, all while biding “its” time in anticipation for some unknown event to occur.
Moon Ciders is a new original sci-fi action manga by TALI, currently available to read on NIUHI, © 2025 KOMODO Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Story and Art by TALI.
Moon Ciders is a manga created by the duo TALI – Takafumi, the author and Ginko, the illustrator – and published by KOMODO. The first two episodes of this action sci-fi comic are currently available to read for free on the Niuhi App.
Would you ever volunteer to live on a moon colony civilization if given the chance? Why do you think “it” is so strong?
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