 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | DEL REY | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | YUYA AOKI / RANDO AYAMINE | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | ENGLISH / BW | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 175 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | OT | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 04/11/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 04/06/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
From the creator of Get Backers comes an all-new action packed adventure involving psychics on the run from madmen and a laid back guy caught in the middle!
Kakeru was a little lonesome staying at home while his family went away on vacation. But boring doesn’t last long when a naked girl appears before him and she’s transparent! She calls him, begging for his help, asking him to please hurry. He follows her direction and is led to an abandoned house where a small group of psychics has run from the Green House, a terrible place where psychics are trained, controlled and brutally used for unknown purposes. The beautiful girl Ayano asks Kakeru for help. It seems the shadow organization has sent out Farmers, agents with guns, to bring them back, especially the strange boy named Joi who seems to know Kakeru from long, long ago and it was he that sent Ayano to go to Kakeru for help. But the lackadaisical fellow who takes it all in stride has no memory of Joi and doesn’t understand how a regular guy like him can help a bunch of super powered people. But when enemy psychics are sent after the people Kakeru quickly considers to be friends, he’s put to the ultimate test when he must fight the psychics head on and all alone! It may be that this regular young man isn’t so normal after all. In the novel that inspired the manga (also released by Del Rey), readers are treated to a more in depth look at the people and world of Psycho Busters. With the greater layers, the characters are even more compelling. The secrets around the helpful and sexy school handyman, the vivacious woman Akira Hiyama, are even more intriguing. The reasons behind why Joi is so coveted are revealed and his link to Kakeru is played upon even more than it was in the first volume of the manga. Curiously, the novel changes from the regular light novel format that we are used to. Sure it is fast paced, but whenever it turns to Kakeru’s point of view, the writing style changes to first person. This is the first time I can recall reading a Japanese light novel with first person pov. Everyone else is third person narrative. It makes it interesting to read from Kakeru’s own point of view how he experiences what is happening to him while it is happening to him, the wonders he witnesses, the dangers he encounters and the mystery he has yet to figure out that he is a main part of. There’s a lot of mystery to all the action that hits full throttle in the last half of the book. Kakeru encounters three particularly powerful psychics sent to capture Joi and defeat and bring back the other runaways. Each time something happens, something that saves Kakeru’s life, it leaves the others believing he has incredible and mind staggering psychic abilities. He doesn’t know what they’re talking about. He’s just glad his bluffs work every time. But sooner or later it will surely be revealed just what it is that Kakeru can do, how he can do it and who – or what- he really is. With whispers about a Category Zero psychic, it remains to be seen just how Kakeru fits into the larger scheme of things. He’s not just the happenstance hero thrown into the melee. He appears to be the key, the centre of it. The illustrations lightly found within the novel have a different look than the later manga as they were done by a different artist. Rando Ayamine’s illustrations have a more detailed and sketchy quality, making them gritty and edgier than the more glossy manga counterpart. IN SUMMARY:
If you enjoyed Get Backers you will love Psycho Busters! It’s action packed intrigue, super powered teens and an ensemble of compelling characters.
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