Drifting Dragons, Vol. 1 by Taku Kuwabara (manga)
This was a mismatch of reader and material. I wanted more parts like Flight 1 (worldbuilding, slice of life, and the way they hunt dragons) and Flight 5 (sky pirates!) but got much more dragon killing and way more preparing for cooking and eating dragon meat than I expected or wanted. Seriously, pages of cooking tips, along with eating.
Mika is a dragon-killing and -eating savant, but that's not the commendation the story seems to think it is. It seems like any time he thinks about dragons, it's about getting them in his belly.
I'm sure part of the problem is a culture clash. The story equating draking with whaling made me feel worse about it. Morally, this is a problem for me.
Jiro says it's rare for dragons to attack humans, and the only dragon that went out looking for trouble was the mother dragon angry that they killed her child. (Many drakers probably say dragons don't attack humans because drakers kill every one they can, you're welcome, but....) Much of this volume is the ship flying around looking for dragons to kill, render, and eat. At least they use almost every part of the dragon...?
More than once we're told the Quin Zaza is one of the last operating dragon-hunting airships but not why draking like this is declining. The why will probably be revealed in later volumes but I won't be reading them.
The art is pretty though.
Mika is a dragon-killing and -eating savant, but that's not the commendation the story seems to think it is. It seems like any time he thinks about dragons, it's about getting them in his belly.
I'm sure part of the problem is a culture clash. The story equating draking with whaling made me feel worse about it. Morally, this is a problem for me.
Jiro says it's rare for dragons to attack humans, and the only dragon that went out looking for trouble was the mother dragon angry that they killed her child. (Many drakers probably say dragons don't attack humans because drakers kill every one they can, you're welcome, but....) Much of this volume is the ship flying around looking for dragons to kill, render, and eat. At least they use almost every part of the dragon...?
More than once we're told the Quin Zaza is one of the last operating dragon-hunting airships but not why draking like this is declining. The why will probably be revealed in later volumes but I won't be reading them.
The art is pretty though.