Offered 2
January 20, 2008
Sadly, the second volume of the series doesn’t keep up the insane, making-shit-up-as-it-goes-along pace as the first volume did. There’s still plenty to like about it though, since most of the insane things from the first volume still carry over.
I think I’ve been dulled to normal storylines by series like this. It did not occur to me that a swordfight on top of a giant blimp with a sunshine and a man riding a bull painted/sculpted on it was something that doesn’t normally happen in an action series until I was explaining it to a coworker and he burst out laughing. This is made even better by the fact that one of the sons of Gilgamesh is made a cyclops by a rusty (?) needle that shoots out of the handle of the sword.
In case you were wondering, there is still a lot of sex and nudity in this one. The nudist camp from the end of the last volume is split up when they find out that it is located next to some sort of black widow nest. So the treasure hunt continues, eyes get shoved up cooters, we get to see Gilgamesh face-to-face and he does some fighting of his own, there’s a cult of some sort, and rooms hewn from diamonds.
Also, space aliens.
At two volumes, this series is totally worth everything I put into it. Thank you both, Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami.
January 21, 2008 at 1:47 pm
[...] Finnegan reads vol. 12 of Phoenix, which actually predates the rest of the series. Connie reviews vol. 2 of Offered, vol. 2 of Andromeda Stories, vol. 8 of Cantarella, vol. 12 of Lupin III, vol. 2 of Kedamono Damono, [...]