Black Sun Silver Moon 5
Posted: August 16, 2008 Filed under: Black Sun, Silver Moon 5 Comments »This volume contains what appears to be the rest of Shikimi’s backstory in its entirety. Things get surprisingly grim and gruesome in this volume, and the story does a fair job of spiraling the entire town into murder and madness for what appears to be no reason. Shikimi is forced to deal with a series of tough decisions and confrontations, and it’s pretty sad business.
I was nearly won over until the end, when we got to the part where it was Shikimi’s fault. It just… wasn’t. Unless there’s more to the story, which I don’t think there is, I don’t understand what Shikimi is punishing himself for. Certainly what happened was horrible, and I can see how he might blame himself, but it doesn’t seem like anything he could be cursed for. Well, other than that little bit about the faith at the end, but put in perspective, no.
And as fair as the story was in this volume, it wasn’t spectacular… but it was certainly the best storytelling in the series so far. And among all the awful stuff that happened, I wound up understanding Shikimi less since I couldn’t connect with his reasons. Oh well. Now I sort of want to jump back into the present to see how this new knowledge about his past is applied… but I’m still not too excited about it. I would say this is still a notch or two below mediocre.
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I would say this is still a notch or two below mediocre.
Ugh. I’m glad I held off on buying any of this. At times, it seemed like it had good elements, but I wasn’t sure it was ever going to go somewhere satisfying with them.
Also, don’t forget to categorize this post. :)
At this point, no, the series is not worth reading, which is kind of sad.
And thanks for pointing out the lack of category, for some reason I’ve had trouble remembering to do that since WordPress changed their system ^_^;
I recently read 4,5, and 6, and I found them pretty decent for an small known artist’s first series.
But partially because I was thinking “boy love” the whole time I was reading.
6 left off at an interesting point, so I would totally recomend reading the last two books. ^^
Yeah, I didn’t realize the series only had seven volumes total, I keep meaning to pick up the last two just to see how it ends. Thanks for reminding me though, I had totally forgotten about it, and I’m glad to hear that things pick up for the ending.