Rave Master, Vol. 15

Rave Master #15

by Hiro Mashima

Rare book

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga, Shonen, Comics, Young Adult

Paperback

First published March 15, 2002

About the author

Hiro Mashima (Jap: 真島ヒロ) is a Japanese manga artist.

He gained success with his first serial Rave, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Mashima began the currently ongoing Edens Zero in 2018.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now this was a great volume. Everything that has been building up in the past two volumes came to a head here. It's a very dark volume and it isn't over quite yet.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I distinctly remember this volume cover from my childhood. The contents are less nostalgic to me, but the cover....

Doryu's Sinclaire, Vampire, is confirmed to have gravity powers. Which... continues this weird Japanese thing of equating "gravity" with "darkness." See also: the Demi spells in Final Fantasy, Diabolos as the designated dark-type GF in VIII; Brago from Gash Bell; arguably Blackbeard from One Piece (he has a darkness power that gives him gravity abilities, rather than the other way around).

A lot of fights in this manga are honestly too short. Here, we have Musica as Wolf 320 regain his consciousness pretty quickly; Mummy in the Bone Knight form is defeated in a couple pages; Orochi is off-screened by Jegan; Franken Billy is more or less off-screened. Celia actually gets the longest fight after Haru!

****

Celia boobs on the volume title page...!

Elie boobs on the cover of Chapter 116...!

"It's love, isn't it?" 🤣

Celia removing her (borrowed) clothes...!!! 🥵
Specifically, her armpit when removing her shirt, then her tummy when she's turned her legs back into a tail.

Cattleya cheerleader tits, pits, tummy, and hips on the cover of Chapter 121...!

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last volume was zombies. Now we have werewolves and a mummy! Hiro Mashima is going through the monsters of the past! The art and story are entertaining and the pages flow pretty steadily. I liked the action sequences which really make this volume a page turner. I might argue that this one moves even swifter than most because the action happens in the beginning, middle and end of volume 15. And it is not just one battle, but multiple and so you truly get into the groove. Fun and exploratory. The end of the volume had my jaw on the floor! Definitely had the cliffhanger feeling to it…you’ll run to read VOLUME 16 as soon as possible!

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty great manga:) Pretty similar to fairy tail, It’s by the same author, If you love fairy tail you’ll most likely love this^.^🤔👌❤️

[Kat R · Rating 3 out of 5]

Series is good, but not quite engaging enough that i can binge read it.

[Muhammad Rajab Al-mukarrom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Half way of the series

[Shin Donghae · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jilid yang bagus dari sisi cerita Reina.
Sebuah karya lawas khas dr Hiro Mashima sensei sebelum Fairy Tail.

[Manmangaboy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doryu stomps Haru and Ruby! Huge cliff hanger loving the Doryu Ghost Attack Gang arc

[Robert Beveridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hiro Mashima, Rave Master, vol. 15 (Tokyopop, 2002)

Haru and his friends have to navigate the Doryu Attack Squad's base in order to get to the final battle with Pumpkin Doryu himself, but as they face adversary after adversary, the group gets whittled down member by member... this one dips a little in series quality, if only because it's so reminiscent of so many other shonen manga. Seems kind of phoned in. That doesn't make it bad necessarily, just way too familiar. Hopefully it'll pick up again in vol. 16. ***

[Mana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Defeat!

The Rave Master falls while an ally returns! Wow didn't realize how much endurance these Rave warriors have. We got to go deeper into Doryu's ship this volume and the action barely stopped to breathe.

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it just me, or do the battles seem to be getting shorter and shorter with each volume? :|

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

great

[Vicenç Sanz · Rating 3 out of 5]

La serie se acerca a su ecuador y lo hace encadenando una serie de tomos que no sirven precisamente para enganchar al personal. Un quinceavo tomo en el que parece que los personajes se dediquen

exclusivamente a enfrentarse a los esbirros de Drew… pues como que sabe mal y huele a chicle.

Es curioso que una serie con ideas tan chulas y la capacidad del autor de hacer argumentos interesantes (cuando le apetece) de con un bache tan acusado como éste. Supongo que debe deberse a la afición (reconocida por él) que tiene Mashima a la improvisación, apuntando una serie de trazos generales para según que sagas pero haciendo un poco lo que le sale de los huevos la mayoría del tiempo.

Sinceramente pienso que tenía pensada la trama hasta el punto de la pelea entre los dos Gales y una ligera idea sobre Elie y las tres Rave que faltan, pero esto es algo que prácticamente ni se menciona en éste tomo, así que imaginaros a qué nos enfrentamos.

Con todo, los combates siguen los esquemas típicos en un shonen, y el autor sabe hacer que sean entretenidos e incluso emocionantes por momentos. Algo que no le disculpa de no centrarse un poquito más en lo realmente importante.

Por su lado el dibujo sigue en su lenta pero constante mejoría, definiendo poco a poco su propio estilo. Un dibujo que, pese a mejorar sigue lejos de los niveles a los que nos ha acostumbrado en Fairy Tail