Human Club 6
Posted: January 26, 2009 Filed under: Human Club 1 Comment »So I’m keeping up with my habit of reading one volume of this on the weekends. Blah blah blah, not in graphic novel format, read it on Netcomics.
One thing I’ve sort of failed to mention is the fact that this series seems to… er, lack polish as far as the adaptation/translation goes. There are errors on almost every page. It’s not hard to understand what’s going on, but it’s got the stiffest dialogue I’ve ever seen. I don’t mind so much since I’m only paying twenty-five cents per chapter, and I know these series get polished for the graphic novel version (Human Club isn’t going to be printed like that, but there were a few things that seemed way better between the two versions in Let Dai, for instance), but… you know. It’s something to keep in mind.
This is about what I expected from the plot, actually. I knew as soon as they mentioned Shinobu’s mother was someone’s mistress… I just knew where that was going, and it makes this whole thing that much more messed up.
Shinobu is somewhat back to himself this volume. He returns to his position as the head of the Shikata family, makes some decisions about where he wants his life to go, then promptly makes some threats to the police department that got him into this whole mess in the first place. It’s his use of force and good looks that initially drew me to the series. I’ve kind of missed them these past few volumes, but the current storyline is suitably epic, so I don’t mind watching it play out for a little while longer.
Shinobu has also resolved to find his mother, who is rumored to have mentally snapped in Kowloon Walled City and sent back to Japan. I think this story will go on for at least another couple volumes… I must say I’m not all that interested in Shinobu’s mother, though I am interested to see how this business between Shinobu and the Li group is settled.
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