The life and death of Toya Harada is written by Joshua Dystart. The art is by Cafu with color artist Andrew Dalhouse, Dan Brown, Kat Hudson and Doug Braithwaite.

The tone of this story is set immediately as we see that Toyo Harada was born in pre world war II Japan. He was a mere child in Hiroshima when the allied forces dropped an atomic bomb. Toyo watched as his world around him burned, his mother burned right in front of him. Toyo Harada himself is not harmed, because it turns out Toyo Harada is a psiot.

Psiots are a race of super humans with unique powers and Toyo Harada is the most powerful of them all. Toyo can communicate telepathically, manipulate matter, fly and is a super intellect.
In his young age Toyo decided he would rid the world of war. He gathers a following and even has a group a psiots under his control and not all of them willingly follow him. We see how the rest of the world reacts to such a powerful force opposing the status quo. They react as one would expect them to. The governments of the world do possess anti psiot tech, that neutralizes their powers, without these devices they stand no chance against Toyo Harada and the other psiots.

Toyo is a complicated character. We understand his motives but question his controlling nature. There is a lot of religious symbolism here, so if your familiar with certain religious text some scenes may be somewhat familiar to you. This does not take away from the fact, that this story is intriguing. We see that Toyo Harada is focused on his mission of ridding the world of war and changing the world for the good. His army has built a state-of-the-art hospital in Africa and constructed a space elevator for the purpose of bringing down the alien debris that orbits the earth. This all in the name of ridding the earth of war and changing the world for the better.

There is a lot of virtue signaling you can do on behalf of Toyo Harada, but he does control those around him to do his bidding and it is not always what is best for their own self-interest. Seeing this controlling nature as well as other manipulative actions, makes you question whether he is good or evil.

The complicated nature of Toyo Harada makes for a very interesting story. As I mentioned before, we see how the world around him reacts to his position of power. We also learn about the interesting dynamic between Toyo and the other psiots under his control and influence. The end of the story was not predictable. It inspires us to believe in hope and a better world, even if things do not go the way we thought they would.

The artwork is great. The images are clearly drawn and takes no effort to understand what is happening on the panel. There are some gory parts, but it is not used in access. The colors pop off the page rather well. All in all, the images are very pleasant to look at.

The issue does loose some points because it is not always easy to track who said what in the telepathic communications between Toyo and others. Overall, I give this comic a 9 out of 10 capes. I enjoyed reading it and enjoyed the images. I found it easy to read and the story was not predicable.