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cyanide_latte's review
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
This series was another of those that I passed on during high school, predominantly due to a lack of interest in a lot of shonen that seemed to have overly similar main characters and because the art style resembled Akira Toriyama's to a degree that bothered me. (I have a lot of love for Toriyama's work, but back then I used to have a bit of a weird hang-up where I disliked reading manga where the art style too closely resembled that of a different mangaka. Don't know why, couldn't tell you.)
I was finally encouraged to try to track down the whole series by a video on the MangaTube side of BookTube (apologies to the guy who made the video, I don't recall your name or channel,) in minor hopes that perhaps someday the remaining volumes that never got published in English may one day see an English publication release. I have some healthy doubt at this point that that will happen, but you never know.
The first chapter of this story is pretty intense. We get a vague idea of the world's monsters and "vandels", what busters are, and our main character and his motivations. The chapter is pretty intense, and the remaining chapters in this are set up for the remainder of the series. There are some additional bonus pages at the end to assist in grasping the world-building but I've opted to skip over these because I'd prefer to pick up on this organically.
Not much to say other than that I think this is a fairly chill first volume for a series.
I was finally encouraged to try to track down the whole series by a video on the MangaTube side of BookTube (apologies to the guy who made the video, I don't recall your name or channel,) in minor hopes that perhaps someday the remaining volumes that never got published in English may one day see an English publication release. I have some healthy doubt at this point that that will happen, but you never know.
The first chapter of this story is pretty intense. We get a vague idea of the world's monsters and "vandels", what busters are, and our main character and his motivations. The chapter is pretty intense, and the remaining chapters in this are set up for the remainder of the series. There are some additional bonus pages at the end to assist in grasping the world-building but I've opted to skip over these because I'd prefer to pick up on this organically.
Not much to say other than that I think this is a fairly chill first volume for a series.
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