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A review by hidekisohma
Accel World, Vol. 4 (light novel): Flight Toward a Blue Sky by Reki Kawahara
3.0
I'm glad i finally got around to reading volume 4, because volume 3 REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth. it was kind of the "Empire strikes back" so far, where the volume ends on a dark cliff hanger and you have immediately read the next one to find out what happened.
The villain in this book is still Nomi, carried over from the last one and it has a lot to do with Takumu and haruyuki trying to defeat him without the aid of Kuro as she's still on her school vacation. This one doesn't have as much of a training montage in it, which is nice considering it definitely dragged the previous volume out a bit.
There's a lot of internal dialogue in this one where Haru has to find the will to fight, save his friends, etc all while not relying on Kuro. This, while it can be annoying, because if he just asked her for help they could have resolved it pretty quickly, but i guess i can see the desire to solve the problem on your own without having to ask for help from your superior.
Nomi is still annoying as ever, but thankfully, since this is part 2 of the 2 parter, his villainous story gets wrapped up in a nice little bow. I'm also thankful that Kuro is back and hopefully won't go on any more school trips moving forward. (also seeing Chiyu being fully back in the group)
This one, once you get into it, reads pretty fast and i read the second half pretty much in one day.
Besides Nomi, i have to say i really did enjoy the characters they added in these recent volumes. all the characters added bring their own charm to the story and i haven't strongly DISLIKED anyone besides nomi so far, so that's a good sign moving forward.
That being said, 3.5 out of 5 but...rounded down to a 3. (mainly due to Haru just not ASKING kuro for help like a normal person would and dragging the problem out and also Haru being accused of putting a camera in the girls' changing room for an awkward amount of time)
The villain in this book is still Nomi, carried over from the last one and it has a lot to do with Takumu and haruyuki trying to defeat him without the aid of Kuro as she's still on her school vacation. This one doesn't have as much of a training montage in it, which is nice considering it definitely dragged the previous volume out a bit.
There's a lot of internal dialogue in this one where Haru has to find the will to fight, save his friends, etc all while not relying on Kuro. This, while it can be annoying, because if he just asked her for help they could have resolved it pretty quickly, but i guess i can see the desire to solve the problem on your own without having to ask for help from your superior.
Nomi is still annoying as ever, but thankfully, since this is part 2 of the 2 parter, his villainous story gets wrapped up in a nice little bow. I'm also thankful that Kuro is back and hopefully won't go on any more school trips moving forward. (also seeing Chiyu being fully back in the group)
This one, once you get into it, reads pretty fast and i read the second half pretty much in one day.
Besides Nomi, i have to say i really did enjoy the characters they added in these recent volumes. all the characters added bring their own charm to the story and i haven't strongly DISLIKED anyone besides nomi so far, so that's a good sign moving forward.
That being said, 3.5 out of 5 but...rounded down to a 3. (mainly due to Haru just not ASKING kuro for help like a normal person would and dragging the problem out and also Haru being accused of putting a camera in the girls' changing room for an awkward amount of time)