Law of Ueki 8
Posted: October 21, 2007 Filed under: Law of Ueki Leave a comment »Sorry once again for the erratic updates. I’m in the last of seven states for this trip. I’ll be back for a couple weeks on Tuesday, and I should be able to update regularly again for awhile… until I head off to Florida and Ohio again.
One of the downsides of this trip has been irregular internet access, and dumping off what I’ve read at home while stopping over for a couple days and promptly forgetting about it (or losing it, I’m uncharacteristically missing a few volumes of manga). I forget a bunch of what I’ve read this way, and somehow I forgot about Law of Ueki, which is a true sin because it’s awesome.
The battles in this volume are less silly and more serious. We still have an oddly-themed arena, but the battle that takes place is between Ueki and a friend, and when we find out the friend’s reason for fighting, we get another sad scene straight out of volume three. I lost a little respect when that very, very effective scene was so obviously milked here, but I wound up liking at least one character a lot more because of it.
Robert says he’s too powerful for Ueki. This seems a little… odd as well. I’m sure a battle will take place next volume though. Next is volume 9 of 16 though, so it’s possible we’ll have to wait a little longer for the Robert v. Ueki showdown, because I can’t imagine what the last seven volumes consist of if not more of that. Maybe he fights the King of All Cosmos or whatever the King is called here, I don’t know. If he did fight the actual King of All Cosmos, I think that would make this the best manga ever.
Ai… gets a possible powerup! I’m very excited to see what this is.
Overall I didn’t like the serious tone of this volume as much as I liked the last, but this is still a very, very good series that is certainly worth reading… particularly since it’s a great tournament/adventure series that’s only 16 volumes long! Very short compared to its Shounen Sunday companions Inu-Yasha and Detective Conan!
