Black Sun, Silver Moon 1
Posted: May 10, 2007 Filed under: Black Sun, Silver Moon Leave a comment »Is there a comma in the title? There’s a black sun and silver moon between the phrases on the cover, so it’s hard to tell.
Anyway, I’m all over Go!Comi series. While I’m inclined to believe that everything they license is probably readable by me (even Cantarella, which I don’t really like but is still okay), I’ve got to be selective when starting new series. This one involves priests and zombies, which was enough to sell me on it even though I’ve read one other series by this mangaka and hated it.
I’m not too sure what all goes on in this volume, though. Not a whole lot of fighting, actually. There’s a short story at the end of the volume which was really bizarre and not really to my liking (even though people with two different eye colors are always awesome), but the only noteworthy story I can remember in the volume itself that wasn’t just the two priests talking and explaining things to each other was the story of how they got their ghost/zombie dog. It’s cute, but I didn’t actually like that story that much.
The only other thing I really remember was that the white-haired priest is actually possessed by a demon and is slowly losing his grip on humanity, which is also cool. We don’t really see much about this other than vaguely hinting at the fact that perhaps it controlled him in the past and he’s done something rather ugly.
In fact… I don’t even know what we really see a lot of, other than the silver-haired priest bossing the other one around and a lot of complaining coming from the other. While it wasn’t precisely bad, it didn’t really go anywhere. It set a path for itself, so I don’t even really want to say that it didn’t go places, but it has yet to move down that path. It’s wide open for it in volume 2, though. I… kinda liked it, but I kinda felt cheated at the same time, too. Zombies are never a bad thing, however sparingly they’re used, so I’ll be back for seconds regardless.
