3×3 Eyes 7
December 20, 2007
Speaking of fantasy, here’s my favorite volume of 3×3 Eyes. When Pai and Yakumo et al can’t figure out how to get to the Sanjiyan holy land, they seek out information. They are eventually trapped by monks who are keeping the entrance to the holy land off limits to outsiders, and this leads the characters into a labyrinth which only a few monks know how to navigate that has the information they seek at the end. Of course, not only is it a labyrinth in a traditional sense, but it also is full of monsters who love to tear people limb from limb.
This was a really great action-y bit of story, and I really liked the progression from being imprisoned by the monks, gaining their trust, finding out what they need is in a labyrinth, then fighting their way through said labyrinth. Though it doesn’t sound all that original, it worked quite well, and the strong characters just sort of helped the great plot and action sequences along. The group is pursued by Kaiyan Wang through the labyrinth, and there’s plenty of gore and fight sequences as well (the evil characters make their way through the maze by killing the ancient head monk and holding his brain captive, feeding off the information in it to survive and booby trap the place further for the good guys).
Pai still doesn’t have her memory, but that should change come next volume.
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