戦国妖狐 １７巻

戦国妖狐 [Sengoku Yōko] #17

by 水上悟志

千夜と迅火……最終決戦の刻（とき）！！！　人智を超越した結界島での頂上決戦。その先に待ち受けるものは…！？水上悟志渾身の長編戦国幻想譚、ついに完結！！！

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2016

About the author

Satoshi Mizukami

Reviews

[Sol · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final fight's over, and the volume's not even halfway through...that's how you know you're in for a Mizukami ending.



This last section of the story was a lot of fighting. The cloud god condensing himself into the size of a human is a great design, and his vacuous motivation was pretty funny, but the emotion largely wasn't there, even with Shakuguan returning... The battle between Jinka and Senya was extremely bombastic, and the OG quatro being reunited was lovely. The rest of the ending was pretty standard Mizukami stuff, but it's effective for a reason. Literally all you have to do is show what happens to the peripheral characters, other mangaka. THAT'S ALL. Senya voluntarily keeping a curse that prevents him from ever finding his way home was so sad...



In the end there wasn't really a villain, despite this being the most battle manga of all Mizukami's stories. The void tribe had a basically noble motivation and were talk no jutsu'd. Surprisingly, reincarnation didn't come up at all, though there was time travel, and they deduced the existence of silver hair and the fairy eyes meant the void tribe wasn't completely wiped out. Also glad that we didn't see their civilization, and that one didn't accept his people's fate. Keeps things from being too neat. Was there a fake premise? What even was the real premise? Superhumans maturing?



Definitely can't beat Biscuit/Spirit Circle, but it can sit comfortably with Planet With. Apparently the epilogue has some references to Sanjin Sadou, so it looks like I'll have to become a Mizukami completist at some point.