Title: Detroit: Become Human: Tokyo Stories Vol. 2
Author: Moto Sumida (Art), Kazami Sawatari (Story)
Publisher: Yen Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama
Publication Date: February 18, 2025
The Story
The second volume of Detroit: Become Human: Tokyo Stories also happens to be the final volume of this short series! Normally, when I do a final volume, I’ll just go straight into final thoughts and analyze the series as a whole, but I can’t do that with this one because of the nature of the series.
First, we take a look at Seiji’s Story. We caught a small glimpse of in the previous volume, but Seiji is a medical android who works in the maternity ward at the hospital. One day, a woman named Hanazawa comes in to be examined for her pregnancy. While we are learning about Hanazawa as a character, we learn of a delivery nurse named Nishikawa who used to be cheerful until she got pregnant, had a miscarriage, and then got divorced.
Hanazawa returns from her check-up to find an intruder in her house. She takes a severe blow to the head and is rushed back. There, Seiji performs an emergency C-Section to save the baby who was pre-named Suzune… which sounds familiar based on the first volume. 10 years later, we see Seiji waiting in an alley when he recognizes Suzune.
We then go into our final story… Takumi’s. Takumi is an android assigned to work alongside a human by the name of Nakamura. He’s being assigned to a rich author’s getaway cabin to shovel snow and keep the grounds tidy for the winter. Meanwhile, we see a familiar android named Reina walking Suzune through the snow.
After shoveling, there is a knock on the door. Reina begs for help as Suzune has succumbed to hypothermia. They warm her up and despite not being able to keep other people in the house, Nakamura reluctantly lets her stay. Reina tells them why they showed up at the cabin, and the news is shocking to Nakamura. Nakamura also decided to bet every yen he had on a horse but grew sick of the situation and tossed the ticket aside. When Suzune finds it, she discovers he was a winner, but before she could tell him, Nakamura’s boss shows up unexpectedly, and they have to hide her. He takes the ticket since Nakamura said he doesn’t want it anymore; however, he ends up dropping it outside.
After he leaves, Suzune retrieves the ticket but almost falls over a cliff in the process. When she’s saved, our series comes to an end in a way that ties every single story from both volumes together!
Final Thoughts
I’m skipping the characters section because with this being the final volume, every bit of character development is a major spoiler that is directly related to the first volume’s stories.
My final thoughts will be rather short because I summed it up pretty well in the first volume’s review. If you want something that pays homage to the video game, this is going to be a series you will want to pick up. Despite having a Japanese setting and an all-original cast, this encapsulates everything that the video game stood for and while it wasn’t a long-running series (heck, even AniList doesn’t have this listed as finished which surprised me when I saw “FINAL” on the cover of Volume 2), it was one of those short but sweet ones.
I liked how every story told was tied into one another and while the ending to the series was rather brief, it put the finishing touches on it all that left you feeling satisfied. All around, an excellent homage with my only complaint being that we’re not going to get anymore of it. But what we did get will make you happy.
Overall Score: 4/5
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