Rasetsu 9
Posted: May 15, 2011 Filed under: Rasetsu 2 Comments »Chika Shiomi – Viz – 2011 – 9 volumes
Yay! Here’s the ending to one of my underdog favorites of the last year or so. I was really looking forward to this.
Admittedly, I was a little disappointed. But that’s more because the ending didn’t have much to offer in the way of surprises. At its heart, it is a shoujo manga, and it can only really end one particular way. Very rarely do shoujo manga end with anything but the happy, optimal ending. Rasetsu is no exception, and the ending here more or less carries out the promises from the previous volumes. It’s nice, and I loved seeing the fight that all the characters put up (actually, the part where they all have to fight themselves in order to slay the demon is pretty great), but even so.
Of course, I may just be disappointed because of what happened to my favorite character. I had such high hopes for him, and he got a bogus role at the end. I’m sorry, favorite. I was placated by the awesome scene between he and Rasetsu at the very end, though. It was sentimental and a little over-wrought, and I may have only liked it because I liked that character so much, but I still liked it.
One thing that’s worth mentioning is… I liked what the characters say is the weapon that the demon used against Rasetsu in the interim between when he first found her and when he came to collect. It’s a small thing, but it is very interesting all the same.
Even though I was a little disappointed with the ending, I would still highly recommend this to any shoujo fan. The characters are great, the supernatural cases they handle are always interesting, and I love the romantic back-and-forth throughout the entire series. The way the pasts of all the characters is revealed slowly is also a huge plus, and the pacing is perfect. It starts slow, but a decent first volume turns into a highly addictive story by volume four or five, and I couldn’t wait for all the new volumes as they came out. It’s not the best of the best, and I’m sure it’s not the type of thing that will wind up on any list of classics, but it will always be one of my underdog heroes, like NORA: The Last Chronicles of Devildom, Record of a Fallen Vampire, and Law of Ueki.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
who did rasetsu ended up with…..
so frustrating cause i cant find anywhere to download it………
Yako. XD I was hoping otherwise.
You can buy the last volume in English, it looks like it’s still fairly widely available:
http://www.amazon.com/Rasetsu-Vol-9-Chika-Shiomi/dp/1421539802/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330831636&sr=8-1