Bastard 9
Posted: April 14, 2009 Filed under: Bastard 1 Comment »Some awesome things: a new character named Vlad Kills, a really cheesy shower scene that’s only good because it’s such blatant classic fanservice, someone calling Dark Schneider “monkey spunk,” and a two page spread with Dark Schneider yelling “Fucking Die!”
Actually, this volume was a lot more profane and hilarious than the previous volumes, and was a lot more blatantly erotic. One of the chapter title pages had Yoko laying naked across Dark Schneider’s (also naked) lap. He may have been goosing her. Or tweaking her. I don’t know.
This volume was a lot better in general. This is more in line with what I thought the series was going to be when I started it, and maybe it has gone back a bit to the quality in the first couple volumes. The plot makes sense and is readable, and even though 100 new characters are introduced and immediately die, it’s pretty easy to follow that Kall-Su is ruling with an iron fist, farmers are rebelling and Yoko and some Samurai are helping them, and some of Kall-Su’s generals engage the Samurai, Yoko, and eventually Dark Schneider in a fight. Things don’t get over-the-top ridiculous until Dark Schneider shows up at the end of the volume. I think his random hilarious profanity helped me enjoy it more, but he still talks about how great he is, and he still makes lewd remarks about Yoko, he still fires off heavy damage spells… I don’t know, I just liked it a lot better here.
It’s still not what I would call “good,” but this is the cheesy sort of stuff I’m looking for, so that’s fine.
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