Enchanter 3
Posted: May 13, 2007 Filed under: Enchanter 1 Comment »Hooray! This series made it over the DMP 3-volume hump and is solicited up to volume 6. I’m holding my breath, but hopefully if they made it up to six, they can make it all the way up to 11. I have no idea how popular this is… it’s not terribly good, but I keep reading it, so I guess it’s got its charm. I’d hate to see it cut off.
Mostly it’s not good because it doesn’t really work very hard to develop its characters and make them any more than stereotypes. The main character has some dimension (he’s good with gadgets and seems sincere about working on them), but he’s just another teenage boy mis-typed as a pervert for having remote interest in women. Eukanaria/butt cheeks is never anything more than a loud obnoxious female who is constantly trying to have sex with the main character (to remove his soul, you see, it’s the only way), the teacher is extremely one-dimensional, and we don’t really see a lot of anyone else… with the exception of maybe Bones, who I’ll have to admit is a cool character. Unfortunately, he looks exactly like the main character when not in skeleton form, so there’s a downside to him, too.
But again, the plot is pretty cool. We just don’t get very much of it in either this volume or the next. This volume lingers awhile on the characters, giving us a long scene between the teacher and the main character at the beginning, then a side story about Eukanaria imitating the teacher and teaching the class for a day. There’s a section that goes a bit into the mechanics of making enchanted weapons, where for whatever reason all the human characters had two different colored eyes like the main character, so are they all possessed by Enchanters? Fulcanelli doesn’t have two different colored eyes. I don’t know. Then there’s a long section at the end where the teacher has to be saved from a huge spider-demon. Unfortunately, the action scenes aren’t that cool either.
Give me plot!
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