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Vampire Hunter D Volume 17: Tyrant's Stars - Parts Three and Four
by Hideyuki Kikuchi
I have a sense of deja-vu saying this but; WTF did I just read?
Staying faithful to D is probably the only thing that drives me to keep reading this series. Otherwise all I can remember from reading almost 400 pages of Tyrant's Stars is the conveniently placed horses (like in a video game where you never run out of bullets) and the never-ending cryptic question of '[D] Who are you?' and the answer that is always cut in the middle. After 15 books is it really necessary to still keep this from the reader? We all know it and there is no suspense in it any more.
And again you have a bunch of characters that fall flat because you can't relate with any of their intentions or feelings. They are just there to fill in the blank space of paper. Everything else is so Grand and Beautiful because apparently it is necessary to blow up every sentence and then explain what author 'presumes' has happened or a character has felt. Why he is presuming so much, I don't know, but I have a strong feeling that Kikuchi skips the part of rereading his manuscript leading him to repeat himself constantly.
Staying faithful to D is probably the only thing that drives me to keep reading this series. Otherwise all I can remember from reading almost 400 pages of Tyrant's Stars is the conveniently placed horses (like in a video game where you never run out of bullets) and the never-ending cryptic question of '[D] Who are you?' and the answer that is always cut in the middle. After 15 books is it really necessary to still keep this from the reader? We all know it and there is no suspense in it any more.
And again you have a bunch of characters that fall flat because you can't relate with any of their intentions or feelings. They are just there to fill in the blank space of paper. Everything else is so Grand and Beautiful because apparently it is necessary to blow up every sentence and then explain what author 'presumes' has happened or a character has felt. Why he is presuming so much, I don't know, but I have a strong feeling that Kikuchi skips the part of rereading his manuscript leading him to repeat himself constantly.