When sky pirate Coud Van Giruet discovers Ren, a girl with mysterious powers that can turn any human being into the ultimate fighting machine, he joins forces with the agents of the Elemental Gelade Protection Agency to protect her.
Mayumi Azuma (東 まゆみ Azuma Mayumi, born April 24, 1975) is a female Japanese manga artist who is the creator of the now completed manga Elemental Gelade, which finished with eighteen volumes and was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series, and its ongoing spinoff manga Elemental Gelade: Flag of Blue Sky. She is also recognized for creating the manga adaptation of the video game Star Ocean: The Second Story.
Before her career as a manga artist took off, she started out working as an assistant to Kozue Amano, creator of Aria.
I went into this volume thinking “Why is it for a 16+ audience?” And came out of this volume like, “Woah. That was pretty fucked up.” I didn’t think this manga series was very dark up until this volume and to be honest I didn’t really like the turn it made. I loved the fun action-packed nature of the previous volumes, but this one just wasn’t to my taste. The start was pretty boring and I didn’t understand some of terms used (even though I read all the previous volumes) and by the end- the action and story picked up, but it just got super messed-up and cruel. Not what I want in a manga.
Anyway I will continue and see where Volume 7 leads.
Cisqua and Rowen battle it out against the assassin Grayarts, trying their best (or rather, just Rowen) to not wreck the ship while still defeating their easily matched enemy. When all is left on Rowen, he must come to a difficult decision to protect the people that he needs to. After the battle, once they all arrive at the port they run into a wee small problem. Coud doesn't have an ID to get into the country! The group is forced to leave Coud behind, leaving him to smuggle himself in. Eventually.