Bastard 7
Posted: January 12, 2009 Filed under: Bastard Leave a comment »So the next couple volumes of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure have disappeared, which breaks my little fangirl heart. Why that series has seemingly been cancelled, and the likes of Bastard and Ultimate Muscle are still going, is something of a mystery to me. I felt like consoling myself with a shitty manga for some reason. My logic was rewarded with a Jojo reference.
This volume consisted entirely of the fight with Abigail. The first half of the volume was Abigail versus Arshes Nei, and the second half was Abigail versus Dark Schneider. I may or may not have slept through the parts with Arshes Nei, because this battle was just like all the others. They use powerful moves on each other, each one supposedly a death blow, then it doesn’t kill the person, so a more powerful move is dished out.
The fight with Dark Schneider is slightly more interesting, but only because he and Abigail start babbling nonsense about the power coming from Hell, the magic being older than modern magic, who is the most powerful, etc. I… think Anthrasax may be awake? The princess is writhing orgasmically on the floor, so it’s hard to tell if he’s actually awake, or if her seal is somehow being broken, or what. He does appear, and there is a nice drawing of him on the back cover.
Also, Dark Schneider is quartered near the end of the volume, a violent act I was not expecting, and made all the better since he still seems to be alive.
Ho-hum. Three more volumes and it’s still not very readable. At least this volume was far less lazy than the last.
