Arata: The Legend, Vol. 12

アラタカンガタリ~ 革神語 [Arata Kangatari] #12

by Yuu Watase

Hinohara was once friends with his tormentor Kadowaki, just as Shinsho rivals Kannagi and Akachi used to be close comrades. Now all Kadowaki wants is to make Hinohara submit to him, and he’ll go to any length to make this happen. But when Kadowaki seeks an alliance with Akachi, he gets more than he bargained for!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Action, Shonen, Romance, Adventure, Indonesian Literature

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 18, 2011

About the author

Yuu Watase (渡瀬悠宇) is a Japanese shoujo manga-ka. She is known for her works Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music.

She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles[which?] as a bishōnen manga artist.[citation needed] In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as "Yu Watase".

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arata and Kadowaki square off again and we learn what happened in the past between Kannagi and Akachi. Good stuff!

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Losing interest, but 3 stars for the yikes moment in the beginning :O

[Amanda Setasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume was really good and honestly one of my favorites in the entire series. It's a little graphic in terms of violence, but it's got some great action and character building - plus you finally find out more about Kannagi.

[Miss Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little dull. This volume sort of made clue in to how rigidly this series sticks to gendered tropes. Like that moment where they were like 'wait! That Nachiru is no flower girl! You cannot trust him, he has crossdressed to deceive us!' caught me offguard because I'd just assumed he was a girl, and the deception just extended to pretending to be harmless? And then I was like '...every single sho and zokusho of this story has been male. Wow. How did I not notice that until this moment'. That combined with Kannagi and Akachi's tragic backstory being centered around a fridged women and well. :/ I know you can do better than this Watase, I've read your other work. 2.5 stars

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

... Akachi you tricky bastard
Flashbacks totally make the story interesting again!

But there really needs to be better hayagami power alignments. We had elemental bending, to random clothes bending... to biohard infections? Seriously?

[Alexa · Rating 2 out of 5]

(12-13) yeahhhh this series kind of went downhill with these two... I thought the story went kind of stupid. The series as a whole has a lot of flaws, but these two were even worse...

[Anna]

In shoujo manga, the villain origin stories are always the best.

[Kris Ivy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kadowaki is in trouble when he wants to ally with a Sho who is a lot like him. this Sho was once best friends with Kannagi who approaches and wants to make him submit instead of Arata.