Slightly Biased Manga

Maybe it’s because it had been so long since I read volume four, and it’s not really my favorite series… but what the FUCK is going on in pages 16-17? Krad really wasn’t explained that well in the last volume (as far as I remember, anyway), and they hadn’t really used the term “tamer” before, so suddenly there’s about four people talking in two bodies with speech bubbles floating all around, etc etc etc… and does Satoshi love Daisuke all the sudden? Maybe that wasn’t a sudden thing?

But goddamn, this volume sucked. I don’t like this series that much, and this volume didn’t do that much to raise my opinion of it. Maybe it is just because it had been awhile since I’ve read the other volumes, though. I found the mirror world kind of confusing and vague (suddenly he had such and such number of feathers after he had just started collecting them? why feathers, why was dark losing his memories, what is going on? why were they with girls, and why was the last one where it was? was Dark even IN the mirror world? what the hell?) Toto kind of confused me too, but that could also be an element I don’t remember from the last volume. Maybe. WAS Toto in the last volume, or was she just randomly inserted in the story?

The characters just aren’t all that interesting anymore either. Daisuke’s heroic, Satoshi’s mysterious and possibly noble, Dark’s a playboy, Riku and Risa have basically the same personality except one’s slightly tomboyish and one’s girly. DO SOMETHING WITH THESE CHARACTERS. SOMETHING INTERESTING. It’s not like a series about a little boy who turns into an ancient playboy art thief can’t be interesting, but it’s failing miserably. The interesting plot is being abandoned in favor of these terribly done character interactions, then when it turns back to plot it goes off in these weird fucking directions and ruins the relationships and interactions that are turning out interesting (Dark and Daisuke, Satoshi and Daisuke).

Ah. DN Angel, you disappoint in so many ways. Shame on you. I did like the next volume better, though.