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Reviewed by David Rasmussen Stop me if you’ve gone and heard this one before... From the Artist of Death Note (that high-rated horror series), comes: this. In the midst of a war, a pregnant woman gives birth to a baby boy… then has the bad form of dying after birth driving her newly-born baby to a (I’ve seen this all before) future life of being a menace to society… probably didn’t help that, upon birth, the kid turns into a huge dragon and lays the countryside (and probably both sides of the little pissing match of a war) to waste. He and another (a female) end up locked up in a “cage” of darkness, where he ends up spending 15 years being tutored by his mentor, the now-shapely curvaceous (but not overtly so) femme named Mio, now he’s been set free because (apparently) more shadows are attacking and they figured they need a shadow to fight shadows… In this volume (which ends in a cliffhanger) it looks like Ral might not be needing his shapely mentor anymore as he sets off recklessly on his own to chase down Ganette, a fellow “Fusion” type (guess Volume 1-2 explains all that, be sure to get those before this and future volumes or you’d be as out of the loop as I am), only to end up getting him rather separated from his companions (in all senses since he rather gets all ego-y on them and ends up doing the loner thing. Not good, since he’s just run into a female enemy with an almost lesbian streak (she just wants to get ahold of many pretty women… only, you know, not in that way… that would have made this M for Mature territory there…), and as the volume ends he (and his newly returned companions) are stuck with this new enemy (and all the complications that goes with her -- and her rather fancily-dressed parasol-carrying ally who offers the hand of violent friendship… and an ultimatum to join the shadows or get plowed under rather violently… yeah, that can’t be good). Hmm… ahh… I’m going to say I’m intrigued, but have to read more. It has potential, and I’d like to see where this series goes from here forward. Action is solid and character development seems good, but this is something I’d like to see more from the start so I’m going to put this on my to research and review from the start list and see if later on in the year I can’t go back and tackle the earlier volumes for review. For now, I say pick up Volume 1 and check it out for yourself, and if it appeals from the first volume, go on and read forth. It might be worth your time. So for a rather solid start (and inspiration to make me research more) I’m going to give it a B-, and see where it develops from here. Comment on this review of Ral Grad v3 on the Manga Life Forums. |
6 October 2009
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