Hoshin Engi 4
Posted: January 16, 2008 Filed under: Hoshin Engi 1 Comment »This series does get easier and easier to read as it progresses. As confusing as the 500 characters and various weird implements, history bits, and situations can be, things stay pretty consistent, and I’m slowly learning everything well enough to enjoy the story. It helps that the releases are bi-monthly and I’m doing a pretty good job of reading them regularly, too.
Dakki makes a major political move in this volume that sort of acts as a catalyst for setting the whole war and everything in motion. Some characters from past volumes come back, and amazingly, I remembered all of them. I never remember old characters in series like this with so many. What Dakki does, basically, is destroy the life of the Buseio. Well, not really, since he’s still got a ton of family left. Anyway, she makes it so he flees the capital, and since he is one of the most powerful warriors in the kingdom, an old ally of his hunts him down and kills him so he doesn’t help train soldiers for some sort of rebellion against the capital.
There are a lot of souls that fly to the Hoshindai, and I’m still not entirely clear on the purpose of that or… a lot of other things about the Hoshindai, but I think that will become clearer in later volumes. Well, if it wasn’t already spelled out crystal clear at the end of the last volume. I don’t think it was, but I do have a much better understanding of the Hoshin Project and why it can only be headed by the clever Taikobo.
So yeah, while it’s still pretty complex and still a little hard to follow, I’m getting more and more into it. If it can succeed in drawing me in all the way, I think it will eventually be capable of wonderful things, both story-wise and character-wise, because there are great places for both to go. I have high hopes for the future.
[...] Tora at Active Anime. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie gives her take on vol. 17 of Eyeshield 21, vol. 4 of Hoshin Engi, vol. 4 of I.N.V.U., vol. 3 of Ark Angels, vol. 5 of Elemental Gelade, and vol. 20 of Get Backers. [...]