Last Hope Vol 2

Last Hope Series #2

by Michael Dignan, Kriss Sison (Illustrations)

Handsome and mysterious transfer student Hiroto Nakadai arrives at Maunaloa Academy, but he holds a secret far deeper than anyone can guess. Hiroto is actually a prince from another world, on the run from the evil Lord Kumagai and his dimension-hopping foot soldiers. Together with his newfound friends, Hiroto must journey through space and time, into the realms of the imagination, and beyond death itself in order to escape. But first he'll have to make it out of high school alive.

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2006

Reviews

[Cecilia S · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume was worse than the last one, but they're both around 2 stars quality so they get the same rating.

This volume begins with surprise! Drake isn't dead, he's just being tortured. But wait, when they all try to escape he sacrifices himself AGAIN, so for the reader he basically dies twice. I'm not sure what the point of this was, all of the characters' reactions were the same both times.

Almost all of this book was devoted to telling a Mecha story, but it just isn't compelling as none of the characters have any experience with any of the world or weapons so it just comes off as a little preposterous when they get around to actually piloting the weapons. And the worldbuilding/explanation for the mecha world is just... beyond stupid. They could have just made it so they'd traveled to an entirely different world but they tried to make it in the 2300s where humanity is down to only 8,000 people and are on the MOON hiding from Mechon unnamed creatures who can copy technology? It really fell flat for me.

As for the characters, Hiro is unlikeable, Alvin is a combo of Genius who Can Do Literally Anything and Weak Kid Who Screams at Danger, Tom is here? for some reason, Ikuko is generic but likeable and Colleen is pretty darn great.

The characters shouldn't know how to do a single thing but they end up being relatively comfortable in their new surroundings.

I dunno... At the risk of sounding blunt (lol) I just think this whole project was just a waste of the artist's talents. I think that the writer had way too many outlandish ideas that should have been toned down by the editors and maybe added a co-writer to add some depth to the characters. They created a crisp and visually appealing work, but the substance was really lacking. You'd be better off picking up a real manga series instead of a shallow homage.

[Anna Ortiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I dont like mech genre stuff, though I know it was just a temporary blip in the series. Also its reminding me of the Pendragon series with the different worlds and all that.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lost on a few different planets where people keep trying to kill them the teens attempt to return to their version of Earth.

This is sadly not the end of the series, the story should continue but I can't find any mention of another book to be published and this one was published in 2006 so I'm not holding much hope.

[Rachel (Sfogs) · Rating 4 out of 5]

LOL~!!! Good book!!!

[Sara]

I hate the fact that this manga got discontinued, it was actually pretty good. 😕