3×3 Eyes 2
Posted: October 17, 2007 Filed under: 3x3 Eyes 9 Comments »Yuzo Takada – Dark Horse – 2003 – 40 volumes total (suspended in America at 8 volumes)
*this volume also has an older edition, published in 1995
Sometimes you just have to go around the country and sell books for awhile. Not much to be done about it, especially when you don’t have internet access.
I’ve read a ton of stuff since the last time I posted, and unfortunately I’ve gotten into the bad habit of either putting it directly away before I talk about it or leaving it all over my room, where my roommate then reads it and puts it away. I’m worried I’ll miss some things, but this is the most likely candidate for forgetting, so I’ll talk about it now.
First off, I apologize for what I said about the volumes being slim last time. I take it back. I would pay this much and more per volume now if it meant Dark Horse kept doing what they were doing here and kept one storyline contained in each volume. I love it, and I miss it dearly with Oh My Goddess. These were good times, and I didn’t realize how lucky I was. No cliffhangers is a beautiful thing.
This volume was awesome once again, and mostly centered around Yakumo letting his friends know he was now an immortal zombie. He uses his talent to dodge the cops one time by throwing himself under the wheels of their car, which freaks his friends out and becomes a point of contention. Evil Pai tells him his life will never be the same now that he’s a zombie, and the story here sort of lays that all out for us. Of course, it does it in the most awesome, action-packed way possible. There are tentacles involved at one point, if you were wondering if this was 80s enough for you.
What a great series. It’s exactly my cup of tea.
I didn’t like this volume as much as the first one but I have high hopes for the 3rd.
And I know what I didn’t like. The fact that Pai kept changing into her other self so there were no romantic moments.. ;-) But I also noticed that I often like manga more when reading it for the second time.
I didn’t like the romance in the first few volumes, but after awhile, there are some really awesome romantic scenes. One of my biggest regrets that it ended right where it did was that things were just starting to get way better between Pai and Yakumo.
Well, I have the scanlations of the most volumes but now that I have many books I’m not that much into reading manga on computer screen anymore..
Yeah, I’ve seen the scans floating around, but I have no motivation whatsoever to read them, as much as I like this series. I would read the rest in a second if it was published in a graphic novel, though.
Nowdays, I’m only reading manga on computer in work sometimes.. when I have time.. ;-) Right now I’m reading Hajime no Ippo, I’m at volume 75. Incredibly good series. I hate real-life boxing but this series is now in my Top 10.
Holy crap, are you reading raws or a translation? It’s hard to believe that there’s a translation group willing to do 75 volumes of a series, usually the teams get burned out long before that. Especially on something that’s not as popular like Hajime no Ippo.
Of course, I can find nearly all 100 volumes of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure floating around the internet in English, so I guess it’s not unheard of ^_^
I’ve always kind of wanted to read a real boxing manga, only because I’ve heard a lot of them are real classics. I have a feeling I’d get very addicted if I started in on something like that. I might try it on my next vacation.
And yes, it’s very addicting. I love this manga despite hating boxing. That says everything.. ;-) There are simply the most awesome fights ever that are sometimes absolutely unpredictable and surprisingly this manga can also be very funny sometimes. I mean, this is a serious manga about boxing BUT there are also situations so funny that I really laugh aloud and at the moment I can’t remember doing that reading ANY other manga. And I must also mention the characters in this manga are really lovely.
As for translation groups, I think there have been some changes but still it’s really admirable. It’s similar when I’m watching some long japanese or korean TV drama. I really don’t know where those people find time to make subs for every episode.. ;-)
I took out the link just because I’d feel bad leaving it up here, but I kept it for my records -_^
It’s true that some of those groups have real staying power. Most of the series I try tend to stop after a few volumes, but then again I usually only read really obscure things, so I thought maybe a part of it was people not wanting to work on something that’s not very popular. On the flip side, I think there’s one group that does almost all the Jump series every week like clockwork. That’s pretty impressive.