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About the Manga
This series is nothing but a confused mess, but if I’m honest I can’t bring myself to hate it, in fact I find I tend towards loving it.
As with the previous volume this one is confusing as hell, though not as bad. For the most part it flows well, though there a re a few pages I’m pretty damned sure must have been printed out of sequence since they make no sense where they were hehe.
I love the cover art of this volume, it looks simply awesome; but I’m biased since one of my fave characters is on it. Unfortunately I can’t say the same for the pull out, which I think is bloody ugly.
Once again the character designs are all over the place, and several key characters have had their designs changed, again. Even the characters which have roughly kept their designs feel wrong.
However the art isn’t all bad, in fact there a re quite a few well designed and drawn pages this volume. Several of them are as good as the cover art and make up for the rest of the bad designs IMO.
The story is a lot better this volume, with it flowing really well. Except for one are which seems to me to be totally in the wrong place.
The story is a lot more solid this volume, and easier to follow and understand. While the general plot still feels like a total mess, the developments in this volume made sense and led to some really amazing character development.
And that’s why I can’t hate this series, despite all of it’s flaws it has a set of characters that I’ve really grown to like, and in a few cases hate. It’s a shame that Lee isn’t able to write a more coherent story, and keep her designs stable, if she had this would have been an awesome series.
Yen do their usual great job with this volume, no guttering to speak of, and a good translation with good flow and consistency. No extras this volume, just a few ads for other series.Also sadly this is the last volume of Moon Boy that will be released for a while as it’s an ICE-K title, and Yen don’t seem to have relicensed it as of yet.
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