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Reviewed by Michael Deeley This series is about three things: fighting, high school politics, and great hair. Hana Tsukishima is a freshman at Suzuran High School. Like most freshmen, he’s entered the annual fighting tournament to prove who’s strongest. His greatest challenge is the violent Hisashi Amachi, a boy so brutal two players surrendered without a fight. Hana takes him down with punch. Now he’s telling the older students he wants to become the new boss of Suzuran high! Some think he can turn the school around. His friends think he can lead their new gang. Just as soon as they tell him! This reminds me of ‘Dragon Ball Z’. There’s a lot more talking than fighting. Hana is as simple minded and strong as Goku. And it exists in a fantasy world. This has got to be the only high school without teachers or girls! And how can these guys fight without messing up their hair? Pompadours, perms, afros, mohawks; it never gets messed up by the punching and kicking! This volume throws a lot of characters at you. Fortunately, the important ones are named in the story. Their faces, (and hair), also help identify characters. That’s important as you learn who the various gang leaders are in this volume. At least one of them cares enough about his school to help Hana inspire other students to turn their lives around. Others just want Hana to bring other students under their control. And Amachi just wants a rematch. This is the kind of character-driven drama that makes you care about what happens next. I’m curious to see how Hana goes about uniting the students. Who will try to stop him? Will his friends help him, or will they be more concerned about their rise to power? And can Hana get strong enough to take-on all comers? And who does their hair? Comment on this review of Worst v2 on the Manga Life Forums. |
6 October 2009
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