Evil’s Return 2
Posted: November 3, 2010 Filed under: Evil's Return Leave a comment »Hwan Shin / Jong-Kyu Lee – Tokyopop – 2004 – 4 volumes
Ugh. This wasn’t even enjoyable in a trashy way. This was just… bad.
There was a fight or two, Sunwoo versus possessed students and Chail versus some sort of higher demon. There’s still lots of stuff happening without much explanation, though the characters do pause to explain a few things in this volume. After some vague references during his fight, later Chail and Sunwoo have a fight and chat to go over just who Chail is and what his powers may or may not be. After she uses some strange power, we also find out what Yumi can bring to the table for the two gents. The story also sees fit to explain Yumi’s true nature and just who’s after her about halfway through this volume.
None of it is terribly interesting though, which is hard to believe given the filthy premise of the series. I mean, aside from demons trying to impregnate a high school student in order to make her the mother of hell, the only thing I can think of that’s worse would be a story about a super-powered entity that drinks breast milk to power up. Or something. The ground is pretty low and level when it comes to stuff like this. If it’s ridiculous and over-the-top enough, I can usually laugh off all the ick factors, but Evil’s Return plays it way too straight to have a plot like this, and isn’t any good at that, even. Qwaser of Stigmata at least ran in a Shounen Champion spinoff, so at least it’s aware that it’s in poor taste and probably runs with it. Evil’s Return… may not know.
Hmm. Well, we’ll see. With two volumes left, I don’t hold out much hope for more fun with this series.
