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Psyren #12
PSYREN-サイレン- 12
Yoshina Ageha is a high school student who offers to help people with their problems for 10,000 yen. He'll take care of your stalkers, find your lost animal, whatever you want. One day when he's heading home, a nearby pay phone rings, and he picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own voice echoing. After finding a mysterious telephone card with the word 'Psyren' printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a crazy new world.
200 pages, Paperback
First published July 2, 2010
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February 21, 2021
One day when Ageha Yoshina is heading home, a nearby pay phone rings, and he picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own voice echoing. After finding a mysterious telephone card with the word 'Psyren' printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a crazy new world. We follow this high school student, chosen by Nemesis Q, as he participates in the Psyren games.
After almost 2 years I'm finally diving back into the Psyren series... And boy have I missed the high octane art!! It's too, too gorgeous... I totally forgot that it was what drug me into this crazy world! It's a little gruesome and I'm fine with that... I love the short chapters and the refined art. It's clear that this mangaka controls the story and keeps those panels to the absolute minimum while still telling the story.
I went ahead and rounded down on my rating because I was quite annoyed at the way the volume ended. It's not that the plot wasn't good but in order for a psi ability to break specific conditions had to be met... but then those conditions were ignored in order to have a certain outcome in the plot... As a writer I find this a no, no... It almost destroyed the authenticity of this volume... but then Ageha adapts his psi power to deal with an enclosed space full of poison! GAH!! YOU GO!!!
We learn Sakurako Amamiya's feelings toward Ageha in the course of the volumes' events... GAH! I was so excited to read this part as I had my serious doubts!!! Still I don't appreciate when everything that happened becomes moot because of an event happening that shouldn't have been able to happen. It smacks of elongating the series just to elongate it. i did enjoy the battles and I was reminded of why I enjoyed the series so much in the past...
Despite the problems with this volume... I know the end of the series is close... So the tension was quite high for me as I tried to determine how these events fit into the larger story... Are these weaknesses to the psi users going to pop back up later?! Is this volume not really a waste of time like it appears?! I'm raring to read more so I can find out!!
This series keeps things pretty fascinating... Even when I'm a touch disappointed by a random plot device I don't regret reading and keep plowing ahead to see the next twist and how Ageha will overcome it with the help of the other psi good guys!!
⋆ ⋆⭐⭐⭐ Authenticity
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tension
⋆⭐⭐⭐⭐ Plot
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Art
BOTTOM LINE: FEEEEEEELLLLLIIINNNGGGSSS revealed! YES!!
March 28, 2024
Creo que me gustaba mas el caos de no saber que estaba pasando.
March 21, 2015
Psyren takes place a carefully constructed world and its overarching plot continually builds chapter by chapter. Don't start here - it really must be read from the beginning.
The horrors of the Grigori research project are coming to light, but there is a faint hope among the tragedy: a possible way to shut down Miroku Amagi. The stakes and tension ramp way back up from last volume, with things getting much more dangerous and desperate for Ageha and company.
I'll admit the story is becoming cliched and predictable in some of its developments, but they still flow logically from previous events and are suitable extensions of the plot. It's just a little disappointing after all of the unique twists and angles Psyren supplied for so long into the manga to see it becoming more standard Shonen fare this late in the series. Still, this volume is great for what it is and supplies plenty of intense action as well as important character beats and curious hints about what's next.
The horrors of the Grigori research project are coming to light, but there is a faint hope among the tragedy: a possible way to shut down Miroku Amagi. The stakes and tension ramp way back up from last volume, with things getting much more dangerous and desperate for Ageha and company.
I'll admit the story is becoming cliched and predictable in some of its developments, but they still flow logically from previous events and are suitable extensions of the plot. It's just a little disappointing after all of the unique twists and angles Psyren supplied for so long into the manga to see it becoming more standard Shonen fare this late in the series. Still, this volume is great for what it is and supplies plenty of intense action as well as important character beats and curious hints about what's next.
July 13, 2025
It turns out there's a secret off-switch for the bad guys at the bottom of this one bunker. What do you think, will our heroes solve everything with a single line of code entered into one secret computer? Well at least there's other stuff. We got a bit more history of Grigori, nothing all too new but we do see more of it. And Amamiya goes crazy for a minute, and we get to see Matsuri in action- probably my favourite part of the volume, she's been built up as the mentor but it takes until volume 12 to see her really go hard.
February 21, 2019
Semua demi masa depan...
November 23, 2022
Listen I wanted to like Psyren, I really did. I was really taken in by its setting made more interesting by the mystery. But I’m starting to think that the shonen market is all about the vending machine effect, where what’s predictable sells. This made me a little sad because the author had a lot to say about books he reads and I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt that he has the taste to pull off a good story. Yet though either the pressure of his publisher or overabundance of characters to lasso a plot around, Psyren falls into the broad demographic of drab shonen that doesn’t impress me.
If it has one thing going for it it’s the premise. Psyren’s setting and stories are nestled between the venn diagram of Bleach and the Matrix. Except all of the action is Bleach and none of the thinking is the Matrix. Yet the mystery that’s initially set up of the contemporary world being so different from the Psyren wasteland was really compelling and hooked me to the story. I was at first impressed with the characters fixing time in the past present and present future, but that quickly waned after the characters had less of a reason to do it more for the sake of the plot than for themselves. And the semblance of characterization that was there consisted more of archetypes than substantial players of the game. The character models and designs are all really sharp and cool but didn’t add much more to the story, and that’s the story that was squeezed between explosions that took up whole and chapters.
The severe lack of motive is something I found made the books really flat overall. Save the world because you should save the world. Yet it sets up a whole mess of characters you don’t care if Ageha saves or not. Everyone he’s fighting to save he shared a comedic moment, brodown, boob grab or info dump in response to a question. The books never give the characters time to simmer and build on each other and the point of the series seems moot if that’s what we’re given. It had potential all the way through to elaborate on some interesting storylines, yet the final result is so top heavy from its characters it’s hard to say any of them were worth reading. I would say it’s worth reading if you’re looking for something different in shonen, even if it isn’t super different. But it certainly didn’t show me that the genre has mature or thoughtful stories to tell, but just gave me more pointy-haired high school sword flingers saving the world.
If it has one thing going for it it’s the premise. Psyren’s setting and stories are nestled between the venn diagram of Bleach and the Matrix. Except all of the action is Bleach and none of the thinking is the Matrix. Yet the mystery that’s initially set up of the contemporary world being so different from the Psyren wasteland was really compelling and hooked me to the story. I was at first impressed with the characters fixing time in the past present and present future, but that quickly waned after the characters had less of a reason to do it more for the sake of the plot than for themselves. And the semblance of characterization that was there consisted more of archetypes than substantial players of the game. The character models and designs are all really sharp and cool but didn’t add much more to the story, and that’s the story that was squeezed between explosions that took up whole and chapters.
The severe lack of motive is something I found made the books really flat overall. Save the world because you should save the world. Yet it sets up a whole mess of characters you don’t care if Ageha saves or not. Everyone he’s fighting to save he shared a comedic moment, brodown, boob grab or info dump in response to a question. The books never give the characters time to simmer and build on each other and the point of the series seems moot if that’s what we’re given. It had potential all the way through to elaborate on some interesting storylines, yet the final result is so top heavy from its characters it’s hard to say any of them were worth reading. I would say it’s worth reading if you’re looking for something different in shonen, even if it isn’t super different. But it certainly didn’t show me that the genre has mature or thoughtful stories to tell, but just gave me more pointy-haired high school sword flingers saving the world.
July 24, 2014
Yay, back to the story at hand! Ageha and Amamiya talk with one of the scientists who ran the program that made Mikoru and the others, and he tells them the guy's back story, as well as a way they can quickly and quietly short-circuit the guy's brain.
The first problem? It's at the bottom of an in-use military installation. And the second problem? there's more than just military there to stop them. Oh, and a third problem? Amamiya's not feeling quite as up to things as she seems.
Solid, action-packed volume focused where I wanted the action focused, which was lovely after 11.
The first problem? It's at the bottom of an in-use military installation. And the second problem? there's more than just military there to stop them. Oh, and a third problem? Amamiya's not feeling quite as up to things as she seems.
Solid, action-packed volume focused where I wanted the action focused, which was lovely after 11.
June 28, 2014
This manga is so much fun to read, it's heart capturing and ridiculously shocking. That I feel as if I may die before I finish this series >.<
Things ...
Ugh just in the end. Things better freaking work out in this book. -__-
Things ...
Ugh just in the end. Things better freaking work out in this book. -__-
October 18, 2013
Psyren is so much fun to read. It's full of great fights, twists and turns, as it ups the ante with each successive volume. You can't help but root for Ageha to triumph in the end.
February 8, 2014
entertaining read! could have hoped for more from the amamiya reveal though. 3 stars
March 8, 2014
The future is being re-written! Two comrads are mispaced and separated from friends! Amamiya is losing her memories! *overloaded*
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 27, 2015
Other than habit, I have no idea why I'm still reading this series.
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