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Cat Paradise #4
学園創世 猫天！ 4
遂に叉美学園全体を巻き込み大妖怪“火焔”とユミ達の戦いが始まった!! 一方、生徒会の山本海也には重大な秘密が隠されていた!!少女と猫が一緒に戦う、学園ドラマチックアクション!!
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First published June 20, 2008
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Yuji Iwahara
57 books52 followersIWAHARA Yuji
Japanese Name (岩原裕二)
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ИВАХАРА Юдзи
IWAHARA Yuuji
Blood Type: B
Japanese Name (岩原裕二)
Associated Names:
ИВАХАРА Юдзи
IWAHARA Yuuji
Blood Type: B
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November 6, 2022
Cat Paradise truly is an underrated series. Likable characters, good art and world-building, a comfortable balance of action and drama. The plot might have benefited from spending a bit more time before hitting the final crisis point, but now that everything's come to a head, it has created a palpable sense of tension. Especially with the twist in this volume, regarding one of the characters and their true motivations. As Yumi & Co. struggle to keep the spirit beasts from being set free, things aren't quite playing out in a way that I think anyone really expected. It remains a very enjoyable supernatural action series, and one that I'm a little sad will be coming to an end in the next volume.
January 18, 2021
History is provided, tension is rising. The big conflict is imminent. Lots of fun in this one.
April 25, 2022
Probably repeating myself, but I like the lore, I like the powers, it's all my kind of thing!
May 30, 2012
Stuff I Read – Cat Paradise Vol 4
Well kudos for this series for looking like it might be done in something like five or six volumes. For most manga series that is amazingly short, especially series that are centered around combat. And this volume opens right into the fray, with the fallout from last volume getting a small amount of time, and we see the main characters have some nice moments in the early pages of the volume. It is especially interesting when their back story is fully resolved, as we find out that it was the main character that basically caused the accident that led the cat to wanting to protect her. It is a very interesting twist and not really one that I saw coming, though I might just be easy to fool. But it is nice and grounds the series a bit before getting back into the large battles. It also keeps the humor alive, which is nice as some fighting manga and anime have the tendency to take themselves a bit too seriously. So it is fun to see this series do something a little new in a genre where that rarely happens.
Of course, as the action picks back up we see the series settle back into the same troupes and clichés. The leader of the group ends up staying behind to allow the other characters a chance to stop the big bad guys. The humans of the area are put in danger, and it is a little nice to see the scale amped up so quickly. This doesn’t seem like a manga where each battle is going to introduce new powers, so we already have some all out fighting, which is nice. And the battles in this volume are the most impressive to date, with some interesting uses of powers and good use of the spirit beasts and such. It is definitely reaching the endgame, and as it is shaping up it will be the president of the student council against the fox spirit beast while the rest of the pairs take on the cat, dragon, and…I’m not sure who the last one is. I guess that will be a mystery for the next volume.
We also get filled in on exactly what happened during the ancient war between the spirit beasts and the humans. It makes for an interesting story, as we see that it is the humans that initiate the betrayal that leads to the spirit beasts being locked away and all this happening. And so the spirit beasts in that sense are victims. We are also shown that the cat spirit beast basically planned for that betrayal in order to take out the humans, and only didn’t succeed because of a magic dagger. We get to see some of the magic princess that created this situation, and stole some of the cat spirit beast’s power. So really there are no innocent sides, and the only people really looking to make peace during the original conflict were the princess and the dog/wolf spirit beast. That is the other main battle of the book, that of the group against the dog spirit beast that has taken possession of one of the members of their group.
A rather weak but inevitable love/childhood friend thing is developed here, which is par for the course for manga and fighting manga in particular. It is not horribly done, but it doesn’t feel all that necessary and coming in new in the fourth volume when the series seems already to be headed toward a conclusion, I didn’t feel that it was all that well done. I mean, I am thankful that it’s not going to be drawn out over fifty volumes or something like that, but I would have preferred perhaps if it hadn’t been included at all. But the fight between the group and the dog spirit beast is nice, if brief. And it fleshes out that character more, which was necessary as he was rather lacking a personality. We really have only left to learn about the girl with the black cat now, and I figure next volume will probably deal more with her and the president, as this one dealt more with the vice president and the athletic guy. But we will see, I guess. All in all it was another good volume, and I continue to really enjoy the series as a whole, especially seeing as how it might end relatively soon. So I look forward to the next volume, and give this one a 7.75/10.
Well kudos for this series for looking like it might be done in something like five or six volumes. For most manga series that is amazingly short, especially series that are centered around combat. And this volume opens right into the fray, with the fallout from last volume getting a small amount of time, and we see the main characters have some nice moments in the early pages of the volume. It is especially interesting when their back story is fully resolved, as we find out that it was the main character that basically caused the accident that led the cat to wanting to protect her. It is a very interesting twist and not really one that I saw coming, though I might just be easy to fool. But it is nice and grounds the series a bit before getting back into the large battles. It also keeps the humor alive, which is nice as some fighting manga and anime have the tendency to take themselves a bit too seriously. So it is fun to see this series do something a little new in a genre where that rarely happens.
Of course, as the action picks back up we see the series settle back into the same troupes and clichés. The leader of the group ends up staying behind to allow the other characters a chance to stop the big bad guys. The humans of the area are put in danger, and it is a little nice to see the scale amped up so quickly. This doesn’t seem like a manga where each battle is going to introduce new powers, so we already have some all out fighting, which is nice. And the battles in this volume are the most impressive to date, with some interesting uses of powers and good use of the spirit beasts and such. It is definitely reaching the endgame, and as it is shaping up it will be the president of the student council against the fox spirit beast while the rest of the pairs take on the cat, dragon, and…I’m not sure who the last one is. I guess that will be a mystery for the next volume.
We also get filled in on exactly what happened during the ancient war between the spirit beasts and the humans. It makes for an interesting story, as we see that it is the humans that initiate the betrayal that leads to the spirit beasts being locked away and all this happening. And so the spirit beasts in that sense are victims. We are also shown that the cat spirit beast basically planned for that betrayal in order to take out the humans, and only didn’t succeed because of a magic dagger. We get to see some of the magic princess that created this situation, and stole some of the cat spirit beast’s power. So really there are no innocent sides, and the only people really looking to make peace during the original conflict were the princess and the dog/wolf spirit beast. That is the other main battle of the book, that of the group against the dog spirit beast that has taken possession of one of the members of their group.
A rather weak but inevitable love/childhood friend thing is developed here, which is par for the course for manga and fighting manga in particular. It is not horribly done, but it doesn’t feel all that necessary and coming in new in the fourth volume when the series seems already to be headed toward a conclusion, I didn’t feel that it was all that well done. I mean, I am thankful that it’s not going to be drawn out over fifty volumes or something like that, but I would have preferred perhaps if it hadn’t been included at all. But the fight between the group and the dog spirit beast is nice, if brief. And it fleshes out that character more, which was necessary as he was rather lacking a personality. We really have only left to learn about the girl with the black cat now, and I figure next volume will probably deal more with her and the president, as this one dealt more with the vice president and the athletic guy. But we will see, I guess. All in all it was another good volume, and I continue to really enjoy the series as a whole, especially seeing as how it might end relatively soon. So I look forward to the next volume, and give this one a 7.75/10.
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January 12, 2015
I really enjoyed how swiftly this story progresses. It doesn't drag and we aren't left to delay over battle after battle while every move is explained to us. If you want a battle manga this isn't really for you. The sheer number of characters is astounding and really fun. The art is incredible! Especially the backflashes at the end. I loved learning more about the two characters on the cover, particularly the president. Yumi is perhaps the character I like the least while her cat is high up on my list. It's kind of odd.
December 31, 2011
3.5 stars
Just trying to polish off a few manga series that I let fall to the wayside. I like the premise of this series, but the art is occasionally muddled, making it hard for me to decipher what's going on. All of the groundwork has been set for the big battle in the next, and final, volume.
Just trying to polish off a few manga series that I let fall to the wayside. I like the premise of this series, but the art is occasionally muddled, making it hard for me to decipher what's going on. All of the groundwork has been set for the big battle in the next, and final, volume.
September 29, 2020
This volume just barely squeaked out a 4. There were pages where the art was unable to convey the events, but the story offset some of that. Hopefully, volume 5 will make up for it.
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