Rating (Out of 5): ~3 (maybe 2.5)
Publisher: VIZ Media (Shojo)
Volumes: 14
Spoilers?: Some/Yes.
Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Here is another
exciting installment in the popular manga series. After she sees Ceres
and Yuhi fly off the Mikage Corporation building, a girl named Chidori
wants to find the airborne duo. Locating them, she asks Yuhi to grant
her crippled brother's wish to fly. They discover that he is part of the
Mikage Corporation's genome experiment!
Something Specific:
Quote:
- "Everyone should be fated to know a 'blissful suffering'. How well that describes... The bittersweet feeling that comes when you love someone..." This is something that Aya thinks at one point in the volume, and I... don't think I really agree with her.
Review:
This series is just
not impressing me at the moment. There were even a couple of parts that
frustrated me. I still have hope, though, that it will get better. Also, I’m
hoping the next book to be easier to read, if only because it’s in the modern
format that VIZ prints today, and not this American-reading-style, large and
skinny way that they used to produce them.
So. In this volume:
Suzumi got fixed, then we met this new character, Chidori, who looks younger
than the rest but I guess is about the same age as Aya and Yuhi. She saw Ceres
flying with Yuhi, thinks they can help her sick brother, and so has come to
find them. There’s this one annoying part, though, when she first shows up,
where she throws herself at Yuhi, and the others make fun, calling him a
pervert and all that, when he’s clearly never met her before. I didn’t really
find that funny; it also didn’t help that Aya was acting like she was disgusted
by him, supposedly in a funny way, but also in a jealous way. The jealous part
continues throughout the volume, and that just annoyed me to pieces, because she’s
supposed to be fully in love with Toya.
I think I’m kind of
starting to really dislike Aya. I’m not really sure how this came about. Maybe
because she’s starting to act like she’s in love with Yuhi as well as Toya, and
because she’s just generally not being helpful to anyone with anything. Also,
this:
“I just wanted a little excitement at first.
I’d flirt with him like a silly schoolgirl with a crush, and get all giddy when
he humored me a little.” Aya thinks this at one point while staring at
Toya, and it just pissed me off. Because that’s a total lie. Not once did she
act like it was a harmless, petty attraction; the whole times she’s been acting
like she’s in love with him, like she wants to be with him forever, yada yada
yada. She can’t just now realize that she has a real attraction to him when she
confessed her love in, like, the first volume. I don’t accept that.
The only good thing
Aya’s done, I think, is decide to start getting along with Ceres, let her take
over every once in a while when it’s needed.
Because, for some
reason, I’m starting to really like Ceres. I think she’s supposed to be wrong,
or cruel, or something, but I personally think she’s the only one who gets
anything done. She’s useful in fighting, she isn’t hurt easily, and she doesn’t
back down from anyone. Also, when she first came out and was with Yuhi, she
confronted him about his sexual attack on Aya, telling him that that wasn’t
right. Which, thank god, because no
one else said anything. Aya didn’t even say anything. Yuhi, even, acted like he
knew it was wrong, but excused it because he couldn’t help himself, which is
just bullshit.
I don’t know why,
but I just seem to be pissed off about this book. It just… happened, somehow.
Anyway, other things
that happened. Aya’s family poisoned the town with her blood, because anyone
who feels weird from it apparently has celestial powers inside themselves.
That’s why Chidori’s brother is sick, only for some reason, he doesn’t have
powers, Chidori does. As does this other girl in the hospital, who starts
causing explosions all over the place. But don’t worry, Aya’s family takes the
other girl with them, claiming they’re going to help her or whatever. Chidori
decides to go with Aya and Yuhi, so she’ll be sticking around for a while.
Aki, on the other
hand, is starting to experience weird blackouts and this weird attraction to
his sister, and these moments (the blackouts, as he doesn’t remember them)
where he believes Aya is his or whatever, and where he’s kind of violent,
because his past self is starting to show up. The next volume, I believe, is
going to have more of him, and that’s surely not going to be good.
There’s still
tension between Aya and Toya, only now there’s also tension between Aya and
Yuhi, and Yuhi and Toya. Also, Aki knows that Toya likes his sister. The whole
love thing is getting rather ridiculous, honestly. Oh, and at one point, Yuhi was told that Aya will love him at some point, which just doesn't make sense to me. And I'm not sure if I want it to, because I think I prefer Toya.
Humor is still not working for me, just as the horror is still not. I'm really hoping that that gets better soon. The italics are
still ridiculous and horrible and make the reading jilted, and it looks like it
will continue into the other format. I’m not really looking forward to that.
Here’s an example: “Their necks were
broken when they tried to shield Shota and me. …They died instantly! …That’s
how Shota got hurt!” (Also, be aware that those ..."'s are not my shortening the quote, those are actually in the book.) I don’t understand why shield needed to be italisized;
it needs absolutely no emphasis, in my opinion. Also, why do those exclamation
points need to be there? It doesn’t even look like she’s exclaiming, in the
book. The writing is just not the best
So. I have the next
volume, and I will be reading it soon. I’m not particularly looking forward to
it, but I’m holding onto my optimism.
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