Shaolin Sisters Vol. 2

風雲三姉妹LIN³ [Fuuun Sanshimai Lin³] #2

by Narumi Kakinouchi, Toshiki Hirano

Juline Kenga always thought that she was an only child and the heiress to her martial arts clan. So when an old kung-fu master gives her a magical bell and tells her to find her two older sisters, it comes as quite a surprise. She must find them quickly as the evil King Baiwon is trying to capture the three bells that the Kenga sisters hold. Juline finds one sister, Kaline, in a nearby town, but the oldest sister, Seiline, is a pirate captain who won’t believe that the other two are her sisters unless they defeat her in combat.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy

216 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 1997

About the author

Narumi Kakinouchi (垣野内成美) is a female Japanese manga artist, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director. Some of her work has appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People.

After graduating from high school, she began working at Studio Beebo under the direction of Tomonori Kogawa, then moving on to Studio Io, Artland, AIC and other studios where she was an animator, designer, and animation director on many TV series and OVAs. She made her manga and character designer debut with Vampire Princess Miyu. Due to her magnificent artwork, she became very popular even outside the anime and manga scene, doing illustrations and character designs for many other projects.

Kakinouchi made her key animation debut with her work on the 1980 series Space Runaway Ideon. She then garnered great attention as the character designer, storyboard artist, and animation director for the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs in 1988, and in March of that same year she co-authored the first Vampire Princess Miyu manga, serialized in the mystery/horror monthly manga magazine Susperia.

She made her directorial debut with Ryokunohara Labyrinth in 1990, in addition to being the character designer, scenario creator, storyboard artis, and animation director for the OVA.

Kakinouchi is married to anime director Toshiki Hirano.

Reviews

[Sierra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the story. It's interesting and you can see that it build up with layers,, but it's visual are lacking. This has a lot of fighting/action scenes but it hard to tell what happening. You can guess and figure it out, but it art style is lacking a lot. That really the only complaint I have, good story and interesting characters.

[Sakura · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book says on the back it’s 7+, but it’s one of the most violent series I’ve ever seen, it’s at least 13+. What seven year old could read this?! I got this at a thrift store, because it seemed interesting, but it really wasn’t at all. I couldn’t care about the plot, and the art wasn’t even impressive. I just forced myself to finish reading beucase I had bought the first two books in the series, and didn’t want to waste my money. Not worth your time.

(This book contains heavy violence (a disembodied EYE , and other violent things. It also contains some other suggestive content, but honestly, if you’re okay with what I mentioned at first, the rest of the stuff shouldn’t bother you. I would give this book an age rating of 15+)

[HannahBeth · Rating 1 out of 5]

We only have volumes 2 & 3 at the library. Not worth the read if you don't have the whole series.