MPD Psycho 4
Posted: July 23, 2008 Filed under: MPD Psycho Leave a comment »This was the best volume of MPD Psycho yet. It deals mostly with one character and his rampage. You know what that means? There’s not a bunch of new characters introduced whose names you have to memorize and somehow fit into the web of the vague story that only barely makes sense. It’s also a simple action story. Lots of people die, lots of people are held hostage, and it’s got a good old-fashioned man in a helicopter mowing people down with a gun at the end. Also, a bunch of little kids pull off some gristly murders at the end, one of them an oblique reference to the “Electric Soldier Porygon” episode of Pokemon (apparently, according to the editor’s notes in the back), so that’s also something to see.
Lots of what goes on is a spoiler (plus a lot of what goes on is a hostage situation where little bits of plot are offered about the character and not much is going on), so there’s not too much I can say. But it was a good story, and easy to follow, which bears repeating.
We do learn a little bit more about the barcode eyes in this volume, which I always seem to forget about but is probably the main plot of the series. There is very little of Amamiya and the female cop in this volume, which is an okay change of pace. I actually like Amamiya a lot, but the multiple personalities are hard to keep track of. I suspect he’ll be back next volume, along with yet another personality and more complications, so I’ll just enjoy the reprieve.
I do kind of like this series, as hard as it may be to keep track of things at times. I’ll probably deny this next volume, but in theory, the plot is very good, and I wish I was more into it.
