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Posted: September 21, 2009 Filed under: Mad Love Chase 2 Comments »Kazusa Takashima – Tokyopop – 2009 – 5 volumes
Oh, weird. I didn’t know until I looked up the number of volumes that this was Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made. I’d heard about this series several years ago and I know it used to have its share of fans. Hm. I reviewed the first volume for Manga Recon, so you can check out the review over there.
It kind of reads like a strange cross between Go Go Heaven and Bride of Deimos. Those series are at complete opposite ends of the quality scale, and appropriately, this series landed right in the middle. It was… okay, but I wasn’t completely won over, even considering my inexplicable love for any series with demons in it. The characters were very promising, but I was already hoping for a change of pace in the stories by the end of the first volume. There isn’t a real overarching plot aside from “drag the prince back to hell,” so I’m hoping one develops a bit later.
Also, I can see why the title was changed. I have absolutely no idea what “Harlem Beat Comes Down” means in the context of the series.
where did u find that this series is going to have just 5 volumes
For volume numbers, I usually look the series up on Amazon Japan. This one hasn’t had a new volume in over a year, which is twice as long as any of the other gaps between volumes, so I figured it was either on hiatus or over.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_ss?__mk_ja_JP=%83J%83%5E%83J%83i&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%83n%81%5B%83%8C%83%80%83r%81%5B%83g%82%CD%96%E9%96%BE%82%AF%82%DC%82%C5&x=0&y=0 – This is the URL for the search I did.
Also, whoever was working on the wikipedia article seems to have marked it complete at five volumes as well. I usually don’t check there for short series like this one, but I forgot this one had a little bit of a following.