 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | VIZ MEDIA | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | MASANORI OOKAMIGUMI KATAKURA | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 200 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | T+ | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 09/02/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 08/30/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
Kurohime’s run in with Yamatohime will lead her into more danger and a way to resurrect Zero…but at a terrible price. For every time she uses her full power to defeat enemies, she loses one of her precious memories of the man she wants to see alive again. It will pit her against gods, demons, and all the dangers that lie between. At last Kurohime has found a way to resurrect Zero. She must take the magical sword Yamato-Dachi, a weapon hardened by the very Sun and can transform into a gun used by a witch-gunslinger. But first she must confront the four great sprit kings to imbue the sword with their powers before she can bring Zero, her love, back to life. The catch is a doozy. With every encounter with mystical enemies, Kurohime is forced to use her full power. Each time she does so she loses a memory of Zero. If she doesn’t hurry and avoid as many battles as she can, she will lose her very reason for fighting, for living, before she ever gets to save the young man who gave his life to restore hers. She is in an awful dilemma. She wants to fight for justice as Zero did, and she wants to encounter those spirit kings to save him. But it is at a dear, dear cost to her own heart. She treasures those memories of Zero and each time she sacrifices a memory in order to save an innocent or get closer to her goal of resurrecting Zero, it is a blow to her heart. There are quite a few touching images of the toll this is taking on her. It is also causing her to hesitate, a word not usually in Kurohime’s dictionary, each time she finds trouble or trouble finds her. And trouble is coming in more forms on her route to rescue her expired beloved. The former Death Angel Sword has a new title. She is now the head of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. A pirate and worse, her only goal is to find Kurohime and exact her revenge on the Witch-gunslinger. She’s not the only one hunting down Kurohime for payback. One of the deities is incensed at the death of Lord Darkray at Kurohime’s hands and will now stop at nothing to end Kurohime completely. Her road to redemption is one that will likely see Kurohime’s fall from her enlightened state of love and joy as they get chipped away, falling away like the petals on a flower each time she is forced to use her full powers. On her road there are many dangers she could never anticipate. In the last pages of the manga volume, Kurohime must face the seductive goddess of the ogre stronghold, Saiyuki. Beauty versus beauty and both as deadly as they are stunning. The real battle for Kurohime has only begun! Of note, this volume holds a limited edition sticker commemorating the 40th anniversary of Shonen Jump.
IN SUMMARY:
Kurohime gains a new weapon and a means to resurrect Zero but at a terrible cost! It’s all new battles, greater enemies and hard choices in the latest volume of Kurohime. |
