Bride of the Water God 2
May 5, 2008
This series is awesome in the same way that Trigun is awesome. Both have excellent artwork (major bonus points for the color pages in the front of volume 2 here), both have really great-sounding plots, and both are nearly incomprehensible when you get down to the nitty-gritty of the plot.
I mean, I know that the main character’s husband changes into a different person at night, and that the main character has fallen in love with this person despite herself, and there’s a lot of drama and intrigue surrounding that… the character who also loves the water god, the water god’s mother, the fact the water god may still love his former human bride, the fact that the main character may find out that Mui and her husband are the same person… stuff like that, and I think if things solidify and really get going, it’ll be awesome. As it is, there’s a lot of characters wandering around that I sometimes have trouble remembering and keeping straight (the two male side characters in particular, I can’t really remember who they are and they pop in every once in awhile), the sense of place isn’t very good, and the sense of time is also a little skewed. But it’s so pretty it’s hard for me to begrudge it these things.
I’m definitely picking up volume three, if only because I desperately want things to hop on track. Plus, yes. great art.
May 13, 2008 at 3:23 am
Unfortunately that might take awhile.
In April I asked Dark Horse when they would be releasing volume 3.
Their reply was:
Thanks for your interest in Dark Horse! At this time, we do not have any current plans to release more books from that series, though you never can tell when that might change. Check back to the Dark Horse website regularly for all the latest and greatest.
Best!
Dark Horse Comics
So anyways from this message it was kinda a let down since they don’t seem to be doin it. Which is a shame for all the money and urging for this series.
May 14, 2008 at 2:42 am
…Wow. That’s really terrible news. There had been a long pause between volume 1 and 2, so I just assumed the lack of info on volume 3 meant it was going to take just as long. It makes me so mad whenever Dark Horse stops publishing yet another series I’m reading.
May 16, 2008 at 2:46 am
Nevermind. Dark Horse just sent me an e-mail today saying they got some more books of BOTWG and are currently working on volume 3. Though they don’t have an official date of release.
Sorry, I thought they stopped doing it since the last e-mail came about a month ago. And now this month. Different.
Sigh of relief is good right now
^_^
May 17, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Well, that’s really good news then ^_^ I thought maybe it was just doing really terribly if they chose to end it after two volumes since they seem to work in volume numbers in multiples of 3.