Last Hope

Last Hope is an original English-language manga by Michael Dignan and Kriss Sison, published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The series focuses on a group of teenagers who get dragged along with a fugitive extra-dimensional prince, running from parallel world to parallel world and trying to survive.

Two volumes were released by Seven Seas; a third has been on hiatus for some time, but the company claims it should be out soon. Note that the company said this back in 2008. Owing as there has been little news as of this writing (April 2010), it's safe to assume this manga has been canned.

Tropes used in Last Hope include:

• Action Girl (Lisbeth, of Mech World)
• After the End (Mech World)
• Alternate Universe
• Another Dimension
• Badass Normal (Hiro)
• Big Creepy-Crawlies (The Scavengers in Mech World.)
• Bug War (Mech World)
• Celibate Hero (Hiro, although a relationship with Ikuko seems to be blooming. Also, Colleen.)
• Clear My Name (Kumagai, Hiro's uncle, has framed Hiro for the murder of his parents.)
• Cold-Blooded Torture (Drake is subjected to this by the alternate-reality school staff.)
• Cut Short (Although that may be changing.)
• Dystopia (The first world they visit.)
• Evil Uncle (Kumagai)
• Falling Into the Cockpit (In Mech World.)
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture (Hiro and Kumagai's world is Japan-esque.)
• Five-Man Band
  • The Big Girl (Colleen)
  • The Chick (Ikuko)
  • The Hero (Hiro)
  • The Lancer (Drake and Tom)
  • The Smart Guy (Alvin)
  • Team Pet (Hiccup)
• Head Pet (Hiccup, particularly with Ikuko)
• Humongous Mecha (The Trimechs of Mech World.)
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold (Drake)
• Heroic Sacrifice (Drake sacrifices himself once to save Colleen, and gets tortured as a result; after the team busts him out, he sacrifices himself again, kicking Hiro through the closing portal to the next world.)
• Love At First Punch (Drake is persistently attracted to Colleen, despite her telling him outright she's not interested.)
• The Multiverse
• Must Have Caffeine (Colleen)
• New Transfer Student (Hiro, although he's already been there a while before the plot begins.)
• Noble Fugitive (Hiro)
• Obfuscating Stupidity (Alvin, a genius, pretends to be an average student so he can fit in.)
• Parental Abandonment (Hiro's parents were murdered by his uncle Kumagai.)
  • Alvins parents sent him away to college as a kid since he was doing such crazy things like talking as an infant.
• Police Brutality (Favorite activity of the alternate-reality school security.)
• Police State (The alternate-reality Maunaloa Institute.)
• Schedule Slip It was nearly a year between volumes 1 and 2, and volume 3 never came out.
• The Short Guy with Glasses (Alvin)
• Shout-Out (The passwords in Mech World, which the main characters identify as such.)
• Sidekick (Tom is Drake's sidekick, but he stays with the group when Drake stays behind.)
• Smitten Teenage Girl (Ikuko, towards Hiro)
• Stern Chase
• Succession Crisis (Kumagai killed Hiro's parents to seize the throne of his homeworld, but he needs to find Hiro to finish the job.)
• Teen Genius (Alvin)
• Tomboy and Girly Girl (Colleen and Ikuko)
• Tsundere (Colleen)
• TV Genius (Alvin enrolled in a regular high school specifically to avoid becoming this.)
• Unpredictable Results (Hiro's navigation device, the Himmelskarte, is damaged; without it, his travel device, the Absprung, can only transport them to a random world.)
• Walking The Multiverse
• You Can't Go Home Again