Basara 8
Posted: February 25, 2009 Filed under: Basara 4 Comments »I was a bit sad this afternoon, since 7 was my last volume of Basara on hand and I didn’t even get any Shuri/Sarasa scenes. I was pleased to find a fresh supply when I got home. So pleased, in fact, that I read the next two volumes back-to-back, something I never do unless the series is excellent. Basara is.
Alas, my Shuri/Sarasa thirst was not quenched in this volume. I was teased right up to the very end with a reunion, and then it got pushed back to the next volume. Literally, I was hoping for it right up to the last page.
Lots of other things happen that satisfy me, though. The final outcome of the battle with the Red King at the shrine comes. I’m not entirely clear on Shuri’s motives here. I understand he was after his General, who he percieved as a traitor for sheltering Tatara’s mother. Except he kept coming up with excuses as to why he shouldn’t attack. Then he kept attacking, saying that it was an assault to flush out Tatara and all his forces. I… guess he was targeting King Ukon? Except King Ukon was aware of what was going on and was in no danger. Perhaps he just wanted to destroy things.
This goes badly for him. Very badly. The second half of the volume seems to be an Asagi-engineered plot to oust and kill him. It doesn’t quite succeed, but it does put Shuri in a very bad spot. Very bad. Shuri has no friends, and his calls for Sarasa wake her up in time to see that she is being assaulted.
Or not to see, since she’s damaged her eyes and has to keep them covered until she can see a special doctor, the man who taught Nagi.
Who happens to be in Okinawa. Good thing Shuri winds up as a farmer in Okinawa!
The end.
“The end.”
I laughed out loud at this.
I forgot to mention this in my comment on Volume 7, but I must respond to
“[Asagi]is quite an aggrivating enigma, and I hate him”
Asagi is my favorite character – indeed, I love him more than Sarasa and Shuri. But I’m not going to defend him. He is so awesome that he will execute his own cunning plan against you for hating him, so I don’t need to do anything. Which is one reason I love him. He always takes care of me :D
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Great. Now I’m going to lie awake at night imagining what forms Asagi’s revenge take. Umewaka will be watching from my closet, waiting for me to fall asleep.
Oh dear. If you are thinking in those terms, then you have already put your first foot into Asagi’s sneaky trap.
Don’t worry. Asagi’s revenge will take the form of a nice warm hug. He will enjoy feeling you squirm as you anticipate, I don’t know, some horrid follow-up. And he’ll foil even that expectation by doing nothing.