Yurara 4
Posted: March 13, 2011 Filed under: Yurara Leave a comment »Chika Shiomi – Viz – 2008 – 5 volumes
It’s so rare that I ever see a manga that was given a second printing, but this volume of Yurara says that it went back to the presses about a year after it came out. That’s good news, since I always worry that most manga series don’t sell very well and that Naruto et al makes up for it.
This volume was a little less interesting than the last, since it was mostly just spirit-Yurara and Yako fighting with each other and trying to get their feelings sorted out. Also, a new character named Takatoki is introduced. He’s an exorcist like Yurara, and a childhood friend who used to protect her from spirit attacks. He loves pseudo-hitting on human Yurara, pushing Mei’s buttons, and releasing ghosts that everyone has to chase and re-capture. He’s also completely clueless when it comes to Yurara’s spirit transformation. Unfortunately, I don’t like him, and I don’t really want another major player to enter the story this late in the game. But that’s just me. He does provide levity, which is in short supply now that Yako and Mei are no longer at each other’s throats.
The main conflict, though, is how lonely spirit-Yurara is, and how upset human-Yurara is that she can’t be faithful to Mei with the strong feelings that spirit-Yurara has for Yako. Not so much that she feels any sort of romance towards Yako herself, but more that her body is cheating on Mei while inhabited by spirit-Yurara, and Mei is worried that spirit-Yurara will take over completely and run away with Yako.
Unfortunately, I read Rasetsu, so I know where this is going. Still, I’m looking forward to the conclusion, because I can’t wait to see how things go down between the three/four main characters.
