Weiss Side B 4

by Takehito Koyasu, Shoko Ohmine

Genres: Manga

208 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2005

Reviews

[Meishuu · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s amazing how it’s 2025 but the tropes presented in this book are still used and celebrated. “I’m just a girl”, “She cried femininely”. Without much ado I present you the review the “characters”:

•Aya, the “beloved leader”:
He went from cryptic antisocial to inspirational sage spouting lines like “we must protect the light”…
At what point did anyone hug him emotionally to justify that?

• Ken in Side B: “…ok. Who is this man?”

• Kurumi:
A.k.a. the functional damsel™, whose main skills include getting kidnapped, cooking, and staying at home while the child assassins go out to kill people. Adorned with soft trauma, aesthetic helplessness, and the trope of “the girl who represents lost humanity.” The kind of YA protagonist people want, nowadays.

• Yuki and Michel:
Functional child assassins with more tactical agency than the only woman in the group who’s supposedly being “protected.” They’re 14 and 11.

Thank God this was canceled.

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would you look at that, we're finally getting somewhere with the story! This fourth volume finishes up the "getting the team together" flashback and gets back to supposed main storyline, in which the team's investigation into the "orphan drug" leads them to a new mission that hits uncomfortably close to home for Ken. With only ond more volume to go, this is finally beginning to feel a little more like the old Weiss stories.