3×3 Eyes 4
December 3, 2007
The story jumps ahead in time and rejoins Pai… as a normal schoolgirl. The jump in genre is weird until Yakumo shows up as a hobo and starts forcing himself back into Pai’s life and weird puppets start attacking her. You see, it turns out that Pai has somehow lost her memory, and Yakumo has been searching for her for a couple years. Of course, Pai has no idea who Yakumo is now, and is rightly scared of him as well as the marionettes that keep attacking her. She’s got a couple friends who are drug into the melee as well, and this volume concerns itself mostly with forcing memories back into Pai and the re-introduction of Yakumo.
It’s mostly transitional, and it was actually kind of weird that Takada chose to reset things so close to the beginning of the series. The volume also has some choice fight scenes in it though. The marionettes are controlled by a woman seeking immortality for her father, and at one point she turns Pai’s two friends into a two-headed spider marionette. Yakumo is mutilated a time or two. All in good fun, but I was in a hurry to get back to the good stuff after reading this.
December 3, 2007 at 3:57 am
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