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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
It was ok, I was confused for most of this manga. The main seems to be one character, but the focus is on another for the most part. Seems more slice-of-life, which is usually fine with me, but this one... there's a bit of disconnect between the slice of life bits that just seems... off somehow? I'm not sure how to describe it. Not the typical dragons though.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
beautiful art, but rough start to a manga.
I dislike learning about a world through introductory chapters, feels like a story hadn't even begun by the end of this first volume, all the time was spent on one concept or another. don't get me wrong, they were neat concepts, but the manga exists only to show me the concepts, with nothing deeper within. I do not feel I know the characters aside from one or two surface details, and as I said no story has yet started.
I'm not even sure what I would look forward to in the second volume, aside from more beautiful art and dragon designs, but I think to read more and maybe with further context I'll appreciate the beginning of the journey better.
I dislike learning about a world through introductory chapters, feels like a story hadn't even begun by the end of this first volume, all the time was spent on one concept or another. don't get me wrong, they were neat concepts, but the manga exists only to show me the concepts, with nothing deeper within. I do not feel I know the characters aside from one or two surface details, and as I said no story has yet started.
I'm not even sure what I would look forward to in the second volume, aside from more beautiful art and dragon designs, but I think to read more and maybe with further context I'll appreciate the beginning of the journey better.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Follow the adventures of the crew of the Quin Zara, a draking vessel that finds its fortunes above the clouds in pursuit of dragons. The Quin Zara stays one step ahead of poverty and despair as it hunts down, kills, and processes dragon meat and oil for selling - and even engages in some culinary adventures along the way!
I thought the premise of this manga - an adventure based on the old art of whale hunting, but the whales in this case are dragons, and ships take to the skies - was unique, and I was looking for some dragon-themed manga to read for a series. i thought the art style was beautiful, the characters seemed like they have potential to be interesting as we learn more about their background and motivations, and the conclusion of each chapter with a fictional recipe based on dragon meat, along with the culinary twist that hunting dragons for food provides, is cute. I am used to stories about dragons with human-level intelligence/communication or higher (at least so far), so the idea of hunting dragons for food (at least so far) is unusual for a story. I hope this first volume is setting up for some more intense exposition in future volumes, bot overall the story has he intrigued and I will probably continue this series (and it's apparently adapted as an anime on Netflix, so I'll probably check that out too).
I thought the premise of this manga - an adventure based on the old art of whale hunting, but the whales in this case are dragons, and ships take to the skies - was unique, and I was looking for some dragon-themed manga to read for a series. i thought the art style was beautiful, the characters seemed like they have potential to be interesting as we learn more about their background and motivations, and the conclusion of each chapter with a fictional recipe based on dragon meat, along with the culinary twist that hunting dragons for food provides, is cute. I am used to stories about dragons with human-level intelligence/communication or higher (at least so far), so the idea of hunting dragons for food (at least so far) is unusual for a story. I hope this first volume is setting up for some more intense exposition in future volumes, bot overall the story has he intrigued and I will probably continue this series (and it's apparently adapted as an anime on Netflix, so I'll probably check that out too).
I feel like this story is told from the bad guys perspective
I struggled with rating this. For me it was more like a two but it's a me thing and I try to rate on the quality of the story. Also part of my issue was I very obviously didn't read the blurb very carefully. I bought this at Books-a-million and apparently my brain shortcircuited when I saw steampunk + dragons + Netflix adaptation or I would have read the blurb better because everything I didn't like was right there in it.
Mika is a draker and our main point of view character (him and Takita, a young recruit). Well let's just leave it with what's actually in the blurb. Dragon's are the whales of the sky and they provide food/leather/building materials etc. Don't get me wrong. I grew up in farm country. I'm very aware of what happens with cows, pigs and so on. That said I don't want to read about watching them being hunted, slaughtered, butchered and consumed.
And that's ninety percent of what this is. It's like Moby Dick without the white whale (yet). I have no desire to read (or watch an anime) about whaling (substitute dragons for whale) and the weirdest part of this was there's a hint that dragons might be sentient (which makes it worse) and that the towns want all the dragon-products but are absolutely awful to the drakers.
There are five chapters in this. Four of them are about Mika and company killing and eating dragons and the last one is about them fighting off airship pirates (I could hear Abney Park in my head reading this one). That chapter was fun because it gave Mika something more than his insatiable desire for dragon meat.
The storyline, is however, well done (hence the third star) and the art is very good. But this just isn't the story for me. I came away very disappointed (and had I read the blurb I could have avoided that so that's all one me).
Mika is a draker and our main point of view character (him and Takita, a young recruit). Well let's just leave it with what's actually in the blurb. Dragon's are the whales of the sky and they provide food/leather/building materials etc. Don't get me wrong. I grew up in farm country. I'm very aware of what happens with cows, pigs and so on. That said I don't want to read about watching them being hunted, slaughtered, butchered and consumed.
And that's ninety percent of what this is. It's like Moby Dick without the white whale (yet). I have no desire to read (or watch an anime) about whaling (substitute dragons for whale) and the weirdest part of this was there's a hint that dragons might be sentient (which makes it worse) and that the towns want all the dragon-products but are absolutely awful to the drakers.
There are five chapters in this. Four of them are about Mika and company killing and eating dragons and the last one is about them fighting off airship pirates (I could hear Abney Park in my head reading this one). That chapter was fun because it gave Mika something more than his insatiable desire for dragon meat.
The storyline, is however, well done (hence the third star) and the art is very good. But this just isn't the story for me. I came away very disappointed (and had I read the blurb I could have avoided that so that's all one me).
Really lovely art and an interesting concept, but I don't really get the point of the story. It's like a slice of life story got crossed with a fantasy story and it's still not sure what it came out as.
3.5 Stars.
It was a bit gore with all the butchering of those monsters because it doesn't really look like the dragons that we know, they look more like some extraterrestrial creatures. The crew of the Queen Zaza is a bit fun to follow and Mika's hunger is mostly the cause.
It was a bit gore with all the butchering of those monsters because it doesn't really look like the dragons that we know, they look more like some extraterrestrial creatures. The crew of the Queen Zaza is a bit fun to follow and Mika's hunger is mostly the cause.
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A