Creative Staff
Story: Shinichi Kimura
Art: Sacchi
Translation: Christine Dashiell
What They Say:
After Eu disappears, Sera is down in the dumps and, thanks to bad seed Kyouko, Haruna transforms into a meowing machine! But damn it all, undead Ayumu’s undying wish is just to see Eu!
Content:
Though Eu is now missing, the plot decides to not dwell on anything that could lead to something halfway interesting, and instead has Ayumu and Tomonori go on a date to the planetarium. The others of course show up to crash the date, and octopus based antics ensue. This leads Ayumu into an encounter with the “King of Night,” who is for some reason working in a pet shop. The others then show up and they decide to trail him, only for him to decide abruptly to kill them all. Weirdly enough, he decides to back off when a couple of vampire ninjas show up, apparently worried about being captured.
Later on, Kyouko shows up at the school to show off a new magikewl weapon. However, she is instead cast aside by Dai-sensei, who apparently decides to cast a curse that “turns people into animals,” really just giving everyone animal ears and the like. Fortunately, Sera arrives in time to save everyone by playing a violin, because why not.
We then learn that Eu has been lurking around, and that Dai-sensei has been creating weapons to stop fighting, which sounds totally logical. As the volume winds down, our heroes find Eu alongside the “King of Night.” Will Ayumu and company be able to defeat this powerful enemy in order to rescue their friend?
In Summary:
All around, this volume makes for another bland, uninteresting entry into the series. One of the key plot devices seems like an excuse to just slap cat ears onto one of the main characters, and for most of the volume hardly anything interesting whatsoever happens. Furthermore, though we get a further look at the details of the “world” established by the series, it still simply feels sloppy and slapped together. To top it all off, even the “climactic” final battle in the volume feels like a letdown, with the big villain going down incredibly easily. At least the volume spends a little less time on cliché plot devices for once, but it’s still not like it introduces anything worth caring about in exchange. This is just another mediocre entry into a subpar series.
Content Grade: C+
Art Grade: B
Package Rating: A-
Text/Translation Rating: A-
Age Rating: 17+
Released by: Yen Press
Release Date: April 23rd, 2013
MSRP: $11.99
