Oh my, there’s really only one volume left? I can’t imagine how Park Joong-Ki could manage to wrap this up, given that things only just seem to be getting started, in only one volume. Unless rocks fall, and everybody dies. Which, come to think of it, might not be a stretch for this series.

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It’s been well over a year since I read the last volume of this, and I really should have reread the earlier volumes as a refresher before reading this. It’s like Saiyuki all over again.

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The middle chunk of this book featured a flashback detailing when Yarong and Batu first met.  I'm amazed to see that Batu apparently used to be an even BIGGER softie.  I'm not remotely surprised to see they sealed their friendship by beating each other up.  I wonder, though, if that was the entirety of Yarong and Genji's relationship, or if they ( Read more... )

Remember my not quite being comfortable with the brutal training scenes inthe last volume?  I did an about face here when we went from Yaki being a scared little scrapper to her being the captain of the assassins in the butcher camp. Shock of shocks(not) we learn that Yantilla is Aragorn's son.  I detect excellent things when he and Yaki meet again ( Read more... )

This volume mostly focuses on Yaki's early years in the butcher camps.  I am torn between "man, Batu has strange ideas about how to raise a kid" "DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS DONE TO KIDS! JUST SKIP AHEAD!" and "well, it worked with Batu and Genji..."

Someone's going to come out of that the toughest teenaged girl in pseudo-Korea, though.

Meanwhile, Mr. ( Read more... )

 I feel I am developing an unreasonable love for this title, and I'm not 100% why.

Incoherent babble here:

So, who was the "monster" Yahmi sensed?  Horakaan or Yaki?  Somehow, I don't think it's Mr. Vengeful One-Eyed Young Warrior.

Aragorn is awesome.  Very awesome.  Elsewhere today, we have been discussing alpha males, and in it the subject of the ( Read more... )

In the land of Kugai, supernatural warriors known as Shamen Warriors have fought for the king and helped bring peace to the land.  Like most of these kings, though, the king and his advisors decide that they're too dangerous to keep around in times of peace, and need to be disposed of.  The problem with that, however, is that the people views the ( Read more... )

Does anyone read this manga?  It's one of several Dark Horse titles I'm thinking of checking out in the relatively near future(The others are Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man and Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but I've had feedback on them, but not Shaman Warrior.)