3×3 Eyes 3
November 21, 2007
I read the rest of these awhile ago, all in one sitting. This series is fantastic, and I’m so sad that it was put on hold. I’m going to have trouble remembering what was in each volume and why it was so great, but take my word for it that this series is worth tracking down.
The figure of man comes back for another round in this volume, and this time Pai and Yakumo help a girl rescue her brother, who was out looking for the statue. The brother was captured by a cult who was also looking for the statue. Eventually, things wind up on the rooftop of a building with Yakumo duking it out with a demon. At one point, Yakumo gets shot with a ray and half his body is fried off while the other half is burned to a crisp. Pai’s cane-demon gets vaporized in an extremely gory way.
The fight is long and drawn-out, but during it, we find out that there is at least one other Sanjiyan, and that he is the evil king of all Sanjiyan and the reason everyone but Pai was killed. He’s got a Wu wandering around, but of course he’s a cool dude and annoyingly vague and threatening. At one point, Yakumo tries to fight him, but the other Wu (Benares, likes the city, I guess) says that a Wu battle is a waste of time since neither can be killed. It’s something I’d like to see though, because I know that there would be entrails everywhere since Takada seems to be fond of drawing gore.
Pai decides she loves humans even more since she’s got friends that wait for her even after the building she’s in collapses.
At the very end, there’s a party, and there’s a lot of romantic development between Pai and Yakumo. It’s actually a really upbeat, pleasant, and friendly chapter, especially after all the heavy stuff that was in this volume. The series handles things like this pretty well, and I like that there are periodically things to pick up the character’s spirits while the truly epic quest is going on. Pai and Yakumo are separated though, and the last page shows the start of a long quest where Yakumo decides to search forever for Pai if necessary.
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