Creator: Seishi Kishimoto
Translation: Tetsuichiro Miyaki
Adaptation: David R. Valois
Publisher: Viz
Age Rating: Older Teen
Genre: Action
RRP: $9.99
O-Parts Hunter v14
Reviewed by David Rasmussen

In the not-so-distant future mankind battles over O-Parts, powerful relics from an “ancient civilization”… so, how much worse can the future get? Maybe if we roll out the generic cast! First off it’s the young boy with the tragic past (every near-future story needs a young boy with a tragic past in it)! And did I also mention he’s a skeptic until he discovers his hidden potential with O-Parts, upon which he decides to scour the wastelands of the world looking for O-Parts with his female partner Ruby? Yeah… I think I heard that one before.

Wow… first volume out and it’s crappy halfway through because the main female lead loses her soul to a whackjob named Jio, and then loses her body to some whacked out government… wow, could this possibly get any worse… wait, wait…it gets worse. My bad. Somehow Jio ends up with a new female partner (a really clingy clingy clingy female partner), and a new quest and no Ruby because she’s restraining Satan who really isn’t Satan and is in Jio and… wow… I just saw x amount of hours of my life vanish by reviewing this title… that’s harsh.

Cliché to a point, offering nothing of real innovative thought or storytelling, it’s a post future world yarn that is about as not interesting as I feared it would be. Lord knows at times I wish better of these titles, but I never get what I wish for… why, oh, why? I’d say me going back and re-reading the first 13 volumes might help, but if I found myself turned off here, I doubt going that far back in time is going to make me any more of a convert than reading this. Still… y’know… you might like it. Don’t just take my word for it, read it yourself and judge for yourself. So, with that said I’m going to give this one a C- with wording that, well, you should sample it yourself (get a volume from the library and read it) and if you like it then dig in and get the set… if not? Well, nothing lost. You tasted it’s offerings and it didn’t appeal. VIZ has like a gazillion other titles for you to try out so you’ll find something (more than one hopefully) that VIZ puts out that is your cup of tea. C-. Nuff said.

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