Zatch Bell, Volume 12

金色のガッシュ!! [Konjiki no Gash!!] #12

by Makoto Raiku

Fourteen-year-old Kiyo, an arrogant genius who is teased mercilessly at school, is given a strange boy, Zatch Bell, for his birthday to help him make friends, but Zatch turns out to have strange powers that change Kiyo's life forever.

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult

192 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2007

About the author

See also 雷句 誠.

Reviews

[Nikki in Niagara]

Total battle action in this volume from beginning to end with a short breather in the middle. The story picks up pace now as the two sides have been pitted against each other and Zatch and Kiyo find themselves battling multiple mamodos. The breather takes time out to reveal the battle action to our heroes and for us to learn who is really behind the scenes leader for each side, good and evil. Zatch and Kiyo are gradually joined by their friends as the book progresses. This feels like a pivotal point in the series and it turns in this new direction which it has been building to for the last few volumes. Still loving all the characters and humour!

[Brandon]

Lots of team ups and MVP KANCHOME LET'S GOOOOO! I'm not sure how I feel about these "millenium demons". Gash has an interesting thought at the end of this volume, if he would be just as hateful as them if he was also sealed away for a thousand years, but so far I'm not seeing a difference between them and regular demons. Yeah yeah there's mind control and all that, I get it. But did the author just... realize he killed off too many demons and with the limited "100 demons" he ran out of enemies to throw at our heroes without screwing up the count? How do they still 'count' as contestants or whatever? It's not like we really know how/why this whole thing started in the first place, sure I guess it all works out, but it feels weird to have this sense of progression in lowering the numbers then NOW THEY DOUBLE WITH A BUNCH OF UNNAMED PERSONALITY-LESS RAGING MONSTERS WOWOWOW!!

[Hannah Belyea]

Kiyo and Zatch learn the terrible truth regarding a collection of stone mamodo - they were originally competitors in the previous battle frozen by a powerful opponent, and a great evil has decided to use them to overpower the heroes! Raiku will have readers gasping with every chapter of this entry. How will Kiyo and his friends fight such ancient power?!

[Caleb]

I’ve officially read all I own of this series. The rest are really expensive and hard to find, plus the final few volumes never even got published in English. I really hope a publisher picks this back up someday and puts it out again. It’s a real treat.

[Timothy Pitkin]

Finally we see the Ancient Mamodo in action and seeing Zatch, Kiyo, Tia, Megumi, Falgore, and Kanchome team up to battle with Zofis and his army.

[Manmangaboy]

1000 year mamodo war truly starts interesting battles