Evil’s Return 4
Posted: December 29, 2010 Filed under: Evil's Return Leave a comment »Hwan Shin / Jong-Kyu Lee – Tokyopop – 2005 – 4 volumes
And this train wreck comes to a close! There’s actually more sensical plot development in this volume than in the other three volumes combined, as Chail, Sunwoo, and Mirae track down Yumi/Soha. They reach the town where she’s being held, and I had Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure flashbacks as the Heavenly Father, the ultimate enemy, was shown to bear a passing resemblance to Dio and controls a town tucked away in the mountains with vampiric/evil servants (which… bears a slight resemblance to part one of Jojo, but not really). The team fights possessed priests as the Heavenly Father leads them up to a mountain. There, some nonsense happens and the series comes to an abrupt and hilarious end.
I don’t even have any additional commentary for this one. There’s nothing else to say. Lots of gore and T&A, the plot had to be read off the back of the book because so little was said, and nothing made sense. But it was sort of entertaining in its badness. It also reads quickly, so if you’re into crappy manga/manhwa, you’re not going to be plodding through a lot of dialogue. And the ending really was unintentionally funny with its repetitions of an earlier story and the way it just… ends.
I would recommend the early volumes of Arm of Kannon if you’re looking for gory, nonsensical, bad manga, or Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure if you’re looking for gory, awesome manga. But if you’ve read both and know what you’re in for… give this a whirl. It’s terrible, but if you’re the right kind of person, you’ll have a little bit of fun.
