Last Hope (manga)


Last Hope is an original English-language manga series written by Michael Dignan, illustrated by Kriss Sison and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The series is on hiatus with two volumes, however, a third is planned and supposedly on the way.

Plot summary

Do you believe in alternate dimensions? Ikuko, her friend Colleen, and Alvin at Hawaii's Maunaloa Institute for International Studies become believers when the class hunk, Hiro, confesses to them that he's really a prince from another world on the run from the evil Lord Kumagai! Now that they've been dragged into it, Hiro, Ikuko, and their friends must traverse countless alternate dimensions and survive the terrors they find there or die trying; whether at the hands of the ruthless Lord Kumagai or the alternate dimensions' hostile inhabitants.

Characters

Well over 5,000 worlds have already been mapped out and categorized by the creators of the dimension-hopping devices of Hiro's World. Some have been quarantined and others marked for recommendation; research of new worlds continues today.
On the , Seven Seas Entertainment staff has confirmed a concluding third volume will be published, most likely in the form of a collective omnibus to introduce new readers to the worlds of Last Hope. A 31-page preview has been released. Seven Seas Entertainment also released the following statement:
The delay with Last Hope Vol. 3 was purely due to a contractual issue that arose between Last Hope's writer and Seven Seas. It is our hope that we will be able to continue with production on Last Hope at some point in the future, but with the manga market in a very different place today than it was when the series launched back in 2005, and many of today's readers are also not familiar with the first two volumes as two years have come and gone since volume 2 hit bookstore shelves. It is our hope that we'll be able to reintroduce the series to today's readers and be able to bring fans a conclusion to the series.