MPD Psycho 6

Aww, man!  I thought the good times would last!  The story was making sense and being quite good over the past couple volumes.  Then I read this volume, which is a bunch of stuff I can’t make sense of, followed by a plot element so far out of left field there was absolutely no sign of it until now… plus, the main character doesn’t appear at all.  WHAT.

I guess I can pass all this off as exposition and go ahead and assume the next volume will be awesome.  It better be, after all the stuff I put up with this time around.

So the main character and all his personalities have disappeared, and Sasayama and Machi are being shuffled around and reassigned.  A stalker from Machi’s past comes back in, and there’s a couple chapters spent with the two of them working on this case, which ultimately ends abruptly, goes nowhere, and I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s setting things up for in the future.

Then… there’s at least one character who has probably appeared before but I have no recollection of.  He’s Sasayama’s informant, and I can’t figure out why Sasayama showed up with a drugged-up kid where this guy said to.  I just don’t know why Sasayama owed that to the man.  Also, Sasayama seems to react to another man that I did not recognize.  There are a few major (?) plot points (?) revealed as far as the organization (?) that made Kazuko Amamiya (?), but the names of the organizations and the faces that go with them, as well as their tangential relationships to the main characters don’t really mean anything to me.

Machi’s sister… oh nooooo.  I’m not even going to go into what went wrong there this volume.

Thankfully, this series has beautiful cliff’s notes in the back of the volume.  They explain absolutely everything major and minor about the plot, as well as who all the people are and why these major plot points that are revealed are something we should care about (I figured out the Machi’s Dad stuff and pretty much everything about her sister, surprisingly, without having to be told, but I still don’t care a whole lot about it and/or it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense).  Without them, this series would be… much less, I think.

Bah.  You can do better than this, MPD Psycho.  There was a notable scene where a man swallowed something that made his head explode in a Scanners-like fashion.  That was all right.