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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney #4
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 4
Ace attorney, Phoenix Wright is at it again, protecting the innocent and helping his friends with his amazing skill as a lawyer.
208 pages, Paperback
First published July 4, 2008
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January 16, 2022
I love when they include classic characters we haven't seen in awhile like the Tres Bien guy and the Eldoon Noodle's guy - there's so many vibrant characters from the games that I'm glad they brought them back (although the new characters are cool too!).
April 9, 2012
Another great entry. The cases seem to be getting more and more complex (though still nothing close to the complexity of the games. But I don't think they would necessarily work in manga form in their current state)
May 21, 2017
J aurais aimé n avoir qu une seule enquete dans ce tome ! On nous alleche avec la suivante... mais c est pas.mal quand meme!
Du phoenix tout craché j etais a fond dedans, comme dans le jeu !
Du phoenix tout craché j etais a fond dedans, comme dans le jeu !
October 16, 2018
3.25 stars.
March 23, 2021
Straight on to the next volume because this one ended mid case! Another great comfort read for me.
December 18, 2024
Same great artwork and surprising ‘turnabout’ twists as in the video games.
October 7, 2013
The theme of this volume is... food products that contain gluten, oddly enough. People eat them, and then people die. The moral of the story, I guess, is that you should never put anything in your mouth, ever. (On the bright side, poisonings and the like mean we get to see less of Maekawa's gross-looking blood!)
Having read several chapters of the Ace Attorney Investigations manga, I'd like to specifically call out what superior translators Alethea and Athena Nibley were. They've gone to great efforts to keep their translations consistent with the games' stellar localizations. Not only do the returning characters keep their mannerisms and speech styles, but the new characters are integrated in the only reasonable way: they've received silly punny names. They're even kind enough to break down each and every one in their typically extensive translation notes. I especially liked the cross-cultural Iron Chef reference!
SIDE NOTE: In the very back of the book, there's a couple pages explaining Japanese honorifics because "it is our policy at Kodansha Comics not to translate them". That's nice and all, except Alethea and Athena actually DID translate them, every time, to keep things consistent with the games. It's like this in the other volumes too. Weird.
Turnabout from Heaven: In this surprisingly emotional tale, a young woman, Diana, is visited by her mother, who promises to finally do something about her physically abusive father, buckwheat tycoon Buck Wheatley. Sure enough, he winds up dead, ironically of a fatal allergic reaction to buckwheat, and Diana is the lead suspect... on account of the fact that her mother has actually been dead for sixteen years. Like I said, it's pretty emotional, without a doubt Kuroda's most heartbreaking Ace Attorney case ever. It deserves plenty of credit for that. It's just too bad that it's undermined by a really silly solution to the murder. Not completely insane like Turnabout Gallows; it's actually plausible. Just really silly all the same.
Turnabout Gurgitation (Part One): As more proof that the entertainment industry in the Ace Attorneyverse is almost unfathomably bad, we are introduced to Gourmand Battle, a televised eating competition. On this week's episode, fan favorite Kent "Fairplay" Milo drops dead after eating a very big bowl of very spicy noodles. This is only the first part of the case; the solution comes in the next volume, though most of it is perfectly guessable just from the first half of the story so it's not the most cliffhangery of cliffhangers. On the bright side though, we get cameos from chef characters from the games: Guy Eldoon and Jean Armstrong (speaking of things you should never put in your mouth).
Having read several chapters of the Ace Attorney Investigations manga, I'd like to specifically call out what superior translators Alethea and Athena Nibley were. They've gone to great efforts to keep their translations consistent with the games' stellar localizations. Not only do the returning characters keep their mannerisms and speech styles, but the new characters are integrated in the only reasonable way: they've received silly punny names. They're even kind enough to break down each and every one in their typically extensive translation notes. I especially liked the cross-cultural Iron Chef reference!
SIDE NOTE: In the very back of the book, there's a couple pages explaining Japanese honorifics because "it is our policy at Kodansha Comics not to translate them". That's nice and all, except Alethea and Athena actually DID translate them, every time, to keep things consistent with the games. It's like this in the other volumes too. Weird.
Turnabout from Heaven: In this surprisingly emotional tale, a young woman, Diana, is visited by her mother, who promises to finally do something about her physically abusive father, buckwheat tycoon Buck Wheatley. Sure enough, he winds up dead, ironically of a fatal allergic reaction to buckwheat, and Diana is the lead suspect... on account of the fact that her mother has actually been dead for sixteen years. Like I said, it's pretty emotional, without a doubt Kuroda's most heartbreaking Ace Attorney case ever. It deserves plenty of credit for that. It's just too bad that it's undermined by a really silly solution to the murder. Not completely insane like Turnabout Gallows; it's actually plausible. Just really silly all the same.
Turnabout Gurgitation (Part One): As more proof that the entertainment industry in the Ace Attorneyverse is almost unfathomably bad, we are introduced to Gourmand Battle, a televised eating competition. On this week's episode, fan favorite Kent "Fairplay" Milo drops dead after eating a very big bowl of very spicy noodles. This is only the first part of the case; the solution comes in the next volume, though most of it is perfectly guessable just from the first half of the story so it's not the most cliffhangery of cliffhangers. On the bright side though, we get cameos from chef characters from the games: Guy Eldoon and Jean Armstrong (speaking of things you should never put in your mouth).
April 14, 2015
Regardless of this series being about an attorney defending claimants from being accused of murder I am glad to inform you that it is not overly graphic and has thus been classified as Teen by the people at Kodansha Comics. Also I think it would be good to mention regardless of the serious nature of the crimes committed in this book that it is not an overly serious series being based on the spoofy Phoenix Wright Videogames. If you decide to read it I hope you enjoy. :)
In Turnabout From Heaven we find poor Diana Wheatley who was abused by her father until he was killed by severe allergic reaction. Diana is accused of switching her father's allergy medicine with enough wheat to kill him but she is insistent that her mother who was killed many years ago in an accident came back and killed him instead. Watch as Phoenix shows off his skills as a defense attorney and uncovers the truth behind this heavenly case and watch as the adorable Pearl Fey unleashes her adorable nature upon you fair readers. :)
Afterward we start the trial of the Turnabout Gurgitation where a televised food eating competition ends in murder and Phoenix is hired by the show's manager to clear the announcer's name. The trial will continue into volume 5 so if you don't want to wait till the end you might want to get the next volume as well. :)
My favorite part of the book would have to be when Pearl offers Phoenix food at the end of Turnabout from Heaven and it turns out it is super spicy. It was sweet revenge from an evilly cute girl that thought Phoenix was cheating on Maya. :)
In Turnabout From Heaven we find poor Diana Wheatley who was abused by her father until he was killed by severe allergic reaction. Diana is accused of switching her father's allergy medicine with enough wheat to kill him but she is insistent that her mother who was killed many years ago in an accident came back and killed him instead. Watch as Phoenix shows off his skills as a defense attorney and uncovers the truth behind this heavenly case and watch as the adorable Pearl Fey unleashes her adorable nature upon you fair readers. :)
Afterward we start the trial of the Turnabout Gurgitation where a televised food eating competition ends in murder and Phoenix is hired by the show's manager to clear the announcer's name. The trial will continue into volume 5 so if you don't want to wait till the end you might want to get the next volume as well. :)
My favorite part of the book would have to be when Pearl offers Phoenix food at the end of Turnabout from Heaven and it turns out it is super spicy. It was sweet revenge from an evilly cute girl that thought Phoenix was cheating on Maya. :)
September 10, 2019
If you've played the games, you'll probably quite enjoy this foray into crazy cases with Phoenix Wright and Co. If you haven't, you're likely to be confused by the fourth volume in the series, at least, given it does very little in terms of introductions for the characters, but an earlier volume might remedy that and the plotlines don't really require you to know the characters terribly well.
Phoenix Wright always ends up with the weirdest cases. That's the charm of the games, and that's the charm of the stories here, too. This is fun to puzzle through, even though you are obviously taking a less active part. The stories are interesting and well-presented and getting to see the beloved characters again is always fun. I accidentally ended up with the fourth volume in the manga series when I went to the library and had one of those "mine!" moments that I'm sure quite a few of you can sympathize with, but given I had played the games I don't think any further background is really needed. I jumped right in without feeling like I was missing anything from the previous volumes.
Each of the stories included is a standalone mystery, and they're fun to try to puzzle out, though often convoluted. That's part of the fun, of course, and I'm glad I picked this up. I might try tracking down the rest, but I'm honestly feeling more inclined to go pick the games up again so I can play more of an active role in hunting down the perpetrators...
Phoenix Wright always ends up with the weirdest cases. That's the charm of the games, and that's the charm of the stories here, too. This is fun to puzzle through, even though you are obviously taking a less active part. The stories are interesting and well-presented and getting to see the beloved characters again is always fun. I accidentally ended up with the fourth volume in the manga series when I went to the library and had one of those "mine!" moments that I'm sure quite a few of you can sympathize with, but given I had played the games I don't think any further background is really needed. I jumped right in without feeling like I was missing anything from the previous volumes.
Each of the stories included is a standalone mystery, and they're fun to try to puzzle out, though often convoluted. That's part of the fun, of course, and I'm glad I picked this up. I might try tracking down the rest, but I'm honestly feeling more inclined to go pick the games up again so I can play more of an active role in hunting down the perpetrators...
November 26, 2012
*SPOILER WARNING*
Turnabout From Heaven
“I sympathise with her but murder is murder” – Edgeworth
And attempted murder is attempted murder!
In this case, the victim died of an allergic reaction to Buckwheat.
He was abusive to his daughter who happens to be the defendant but the actual murderer is her mother.
Or so it seems at first. Her mother replaced the victims medicine with buckwheat flower to kill him – however it turns out she accidentally put milk powder in the medicine instead. He was actually killed by flower which got on his cat.
So the mother accidentally didn’t kill him and therefore gets away with it. No one cares that she tried to kill someone, in fact they’re all happy that she can get away with it because it’s not what actually killed him. It’s like if someone accidentally shot someone with a pellet gun instead of a real gun – they still had the intention, you can’t celebrate that they got away with it!
This is just wrong. This is not the message of the ace attorney series.
It doesn’t matter that the victim wasn’t nice and the mother wanted to kill him to protect her daughter.
Phoenix Wright is not about justifying murder, or celebrating someone getting away with attempted murder!
It’s just wrong!
I'm giving this a three star for the other case in this volume. If that wasn't there it'd be two or one.
Turnabout From Heaven
“I sympathise with her but murder is murder” – Edgeworth
And attempted murder is attempted murder!
In this case, the victim died of an allergic reaction to Buckwheat.
He was abusive to his daughter who happens to be the defendant but the actual murderer is her mother.
Or so it seems at first. Her mother replaced the victims medicine with buckwheat flower to kill him – however it turns out she accidentally put milk powder in the medicine instead. He was actually killed by flower which got on his cat.
So the mother accidentally didn’t kill him and therefore gets away with it. No one cares that she tried to kill someone, in fact they’re all happy that she can get away with it because it’s not what actually killed him. It’s like if someone accidentally shot someone with a pellet gun instead of a real gun – they still had the intention, you can’t celebrate that they got away with it!
This is just wrong. This is not the message of the ace attorney series.
It doesn’t matter that the victim wasn’t nice and the mother wanted to kill him to protect her daughter.
Phoenix Wright is not about justifying murder, or celebrating someone getting away with attempted murder!
It’s just wrong!
I'm giving this a three star for the other case in this volume. If that wasn't there it'd be two or one.
July 23, 2025
In this manga we get two cats, noodles, Edgeworth and Phoenix working together in court, smug Egdeworth, Gumshoe, Pearls, Edgeworth dramatically shouting about the dangers of allergies and an emotional family story. I could not have wished for more.
I loved the big dinner scene at the end <3
-the case of the eating competition is interesting so far
- I'm surprised they picked Payne as the prosecutor for this case, but he is as entertaining as always
The bonus content at the end was great too. It can be cringe but, to be honest, I like it when authors/artists inject themselves into their stories for some fun bits. The Apollo Justice cameo was a fun surprise, but now I want a whole manga with older Phoenix, Apollo, Trucy and Klavier. Where is it Capcom??? Don't be such a tease :(
I loved the big dinner scene at the end <3
-the case of the eating competition is interesting so far
- I'm surprised they picked Payne as the prosecutor for this case, but he is as entertaining as always
The bonus content at the end was great too. It can be cringe but, to be honest, I like it when authors/artists inject themselves into their stories for some fun bits. The Apollo Justice cameo was a fun surprise, but now I want a whole manga with older Phoenix, Apollo, Trucy and Klavier. Where is it Capcom??? Don't be such a tease :(
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 23, 2016
This is one of the better entries in this series. I figured out whodunit in the first case, but there were enough other plot twists to keep me interested. The beginning of the second case was intriguing as well. I have a few thoughts about who the killer is, but I will have to read the next volume to see if I'm right. Also, Pearls is adorable as usual. I was a bit annoyed that but other than that, it was a fun romp in the world of Neo Olde Tokyo.
January 24, 2015
Still some inconsistencies with Edgeworth's relationship to Phoenix--they're too friendly. Edgeworth isn't the type to sit down and have a nice family dinner like the setting created after the first story.
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February 23, 2015
Když Payne trénuje, je hrůzostrašný.
A chudák Phoenix.
"Mám známé v gastronomickém průmyslu, seženu vám místo v nejlepší restauraci!" "PHOENIX TEN PŘÍPAD PŘIJÍMÁ."
A chudák Phoenix.
"Mám známé v gastronomickém průmyslu, seženu vám místo v nejlepší restauraci!" "PHOENIX TEN PŘÍPAD PŘIJÍMÁ."
September 4, 2015
Even by Ace Attorney standards, that first case stretches realism (there is such a thing as attempted murder, you know). Not bad otherwise.
February 24, 2013
Another great book with a full case, and a cliffhanger on the second case!
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