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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | TOKYOPOP UK | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | NATSUMI ITSUKI | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE/ B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 360 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | T | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 08/12/2009 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 08/06/2009 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | SANDRA SCHOLES |
Twin children, Thor and Rai run through the forest of Panto, but they must be on their guard as man-eating plants are at every turn on this planet and if they have no Guardi or someone to show them what to do, how to hunt and live on this evil planet then they might not survive. Originally they are from the planet Juno, but one day they were devastated when their parents are dead and they are kidnapped by unknown men and left on the Planet of the Beast King, they now have to fight for their lives against other predators, men who have grown up like animals with a kill or be killed mentality. To survive Thor must allow himself to be helped by one of the leaders from the four clans on the planet and one day lead himself - but left with an injured brother what can he do but try to save him? Art by Natsumi Itsuki is similar to Shuri Shiozu's work on the Eerie Queerie series but without the yaoi element. That means the work is pleasing to the eye despite the content of the novel being a survival story and one quite death-defying. Jyu-Oh-Sei is a brilliant saga of keeping alive, struggling to succeed eve though other settlers on the planet oppose them staying there.
The first volume of the long story was published in 1994, but the last volume was not out until 2003, taking ten years to complete - quite staggering in manga terms.
Its style and art coupled with her own story makes this book a hefty volume 1 of a brothers struggle to cope with being twins who are hurled head first into real-life while still being very young.
IN SUMMARY:
Jyu-Oh-Sei is a bold Sci-Fi drama of a coming of age and soon to be hit. Absorbing and nearly 400 pages of unmatched adventure. |
