Moon Child 8
Posted: March 27, 2008 Filed under: Moon Child 1 Comment »Teruto is just a creepy, creepy boy. He pulls off a number of weird tricks in this volume, including walking around on a supposedly ruined leg and scaring the crap out of Jimmy with illusions. Someone disappears, which I figured he’d do eventually. He’s definitely a dangerous person… much more so than the series had previously let on. It’s hard to believe that this psychopath is among the mermaids that have been introduced in the story so far, but here you have it.
There is an accident, and he uses that as leverage to get Art to agree to his dance tour. Art feels completely and totally in debt to Gil, to the point where he almost beats Jimmy when Jimmy doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. It’s always nice to see Art’s bizarre child abuse problem rear its ugly head, but he’s definitely learned to control it. Also back is the Grandmother. I’m sure we all missed her. She hasn’t been in the past few volumes, but she’s back, and still a real downer about Art and Jimmy, which I’ve resigned myself to at this point.
What else… Oh yes! Jimmy remembers his past! We are finally treated to a full flashback and most of an explanation to the really freaky stuff that’s been going on for the past 8 volumes. I’m not sure how good I feel about the payoff, but I definitely got a lot of enjoyment out of the flashback.
This series takes a really slow, leisurely pace most of the time. This is fine, because it really succeeds at weaving the bizarre, fantasy-filled alternate world, and I like that a lot of time is taken bonding the characters to one another. The slow pace is really to Moon Child’s credit. This volume was more plot development than any volume before it, ever, so it was sort of hard to take all these things in at once. Part of me hopes to keep finding out more and more, because there are still a lot of unanswered questions, but the other part of me hopes that it slows back down and takes its time after this.
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