Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: VIZ Signature (VIZ Media)
Release Date: June 2019
Volumes: 5.
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
A spin-off series from the hit manga Gangsta that tells the backstory of Marco Adriano.
The man named Marco Adriano is a loyal and beloved member of the Cristiano Family, helping them protect the persecuted Twilight population in the city of Ergastulum. But he was once a boy code-named “Spas,” raised as a Hunter and assigned to the Destroyers Second Group for a single purpose: to track down and kill Twilights.
Spas has lost the sense of justice that gave his life meaning. Striker still lives only for the thrill of the hunt. The rift between their moral stances forces Spas to break the promise they’d once made to each other, initiating a bloody parting that will scar them both forever.
The final volume of Marco Adriano’s hidden history of savagery and redemption.
The man named Marco Adriano is a loyal and beloved member of the Cristiano Family, helping them protect the persecuted Twilight population in the city of Ergastulum. But he was once a boy code-named “Spas,” raised as a Hunter and assigned to the Destroyers Second Group for a single purpose: to track down and kill Twilights.
Spas has lost the sense of justice that gave his life meaning. Striker still lives only for the thrill of the hunt. The rift between their moral stances forces Spas to break the promise they’d once made to each other, initiating a bloody parting that will scar them both forever.
The final volume of Marco Adriano’s hidden history of savagery and redemption.
Review:
The fight between the hunters comes to a head in the first half of
this volume. Spas has turned on the other hunters, and despite his
grief and his wanting to stay with his friends, he has to be honest
and do what he believes is right.
It gets real bloody there for a bit. It's a bad stand-off, a bad
fight. But thankfully it proves, at least to one person, that Spas
isn't a hunter anymore and he wants out. This leads to some more
hardships for him, as he knows he's done terrible things, and no
one wants to accept him.
I haven't read any of Gangsta, so I don't know where that
series starts up after this prequel. I'm not sure where Spas/Marco's
story goes from here. This history was definitely dark and bloody and
awful, and there's hints of more underlying issues aside from the
major ones. But I actually found this to be an interesting spin-off
series nonetheless, and I did like Marco's character and the way it
was done, how he realized they were doing awful things and yet we still saw that they
were his makeshift family with happy memories.
A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!
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