"The real-world death of Pitohui." This was the sole motivator that pushed Llenn into entering the second Squad Jam. Accompanied by her best friend and ALO transplant, Fukaziroh, the two overcome wave after wave of enemy for the sake of achieving Llenn's ultimate goal. "In order to save Pitohui's life, I'll kill her myself!" This is no easy feat, however. Pitohui has the strength of a demon with the mentality to match. On top of that, Llenn isn't the only one hunting her! Will Llenn reach Pitohui in time? Or will one of the 79,408 bullets fired in the second Squad Jam beat P-Chan to the punch?!
The finale of the 2nd Squad Jam arc, this volume was pretty much wins style points for the batshit insane finale, even if it made almost zero sense.
While GGO was my least favourite arc in the original SAO work, Keiichi Sigsawa's renowned lust for guns does much justice to the setting, which he masterfully stretches the limits of, but never trying to upend it.
Kawahara's writing can tend to focus more on the thematic struggles or ethical questions of the setting, but Sigsawa really just doesn't give a fuck about them and has maximum fun with it. It's an apples vs oranges comparison really, but I'm surprised at how good this pairing comes off.
Looking forward to the next volume as it finally covers post-anime adaptation events.
This is the finale to the second Squad Jam. It’s got everything great about the last 2 volumes as well as two important factors that put this over the edge for me. Everything is wrapped up. No more mysteries. I’m excited to see where these characters go from here. And also, there is a surprising amount of Bi representation! What?! Go GGO!