Dragon Head 9
January 30, 2008
Just when you think things can’t possibly get any more disturbing in this series, they do. I still say that some of the underground bits at the beginning of the series will never be topped, but the trip into the volcano was also pretty intense. This volume, Teru runs across a colony of drug-addled people looking for the “ultimate fear” who maim and disfigure themselves. They’re not even that crazy. They’re drug-addled because that’s how the food is they have to eat. They don’t talk to or interact with Teru. They could care less if he’s there. There’s some Dragon Heads wandering around, but they don’t really do anything. Everything is just presented totally objectively, and you can take it or leave it.
That’s right, you can take or leave a gigantic, subterranean warehouse full of indifferent people who sever their own limbs to feel fear. What the hell.
It’s still not entirely clear what’s going on in Tokyo. There are rescue workers, but have they evacuated everyone but the crazies? Are they still looking for survivors? Have the crazies kept them from rescuing anyone? For some reason, the fear seekers don’t like the rescue workers.
It seems my guess may have been mostly right as far as what the disaster was, but there may also be a slightly different spin on it than what I thought. I suppose we’ll find out next volume. Hopefully Ako is okay.
January 30, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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