Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning, Vol. 08

Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning #8

by Kyo Shirodaira, Eita Mizuno (Illustrator)

Despite thorough planning and preparation, the offensive against Kanon is not going well. Bruised and broken, Rio, Ryouko, and Kousuke are no closer to reaching Kanon than when they started. But Ayumu's trusty information-gathering sidekick is ready and willing to help out. Now they know where Kanon is holding the hapless Ayumu hostage, but they're still in no shape attack. Thankfully, Rio managed to nick Kanon with an anesthetic bullet in their last assault, so he too is taking time to recover. Now everyone's attention is on the mysterious representative of the "Watchers" who has arrived to hear Kanon's demands...

Genres: Manga, Mystery, Shonen, Young Adult, Comics

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2003

Reviews

[Danicka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can we just stop for a while and admire the female characters? Because somehow in this part, Hiyono was kind of cool. So refreshing, when you are fed up with all those damsel in distress shoujos characters.

[Shin Donghae · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adegan laganya mungkin kurang nendang dengan artwork manis Mizuno sensei.
Namun nilai plusnya adalah adu analisis saat tarung Kanon vs Rio.
Sementara di jilid ini MC tidak banyak mendapatkan panel

[Cornerofmadness · Rating 2 out of 5]

It opens with a battle between Kanon and the other Blade Children, which goes badly for them but even that has far too much talking. They tell each other what they’re going to do then they do it. I’d rather just see them do it. We don’t need to be told and why would you explain to your enemy? The rest of this is planning for more attacks and just talking, mostly whining that they’re all puppets of Kiyotaka, Ayumi’s older brother who is ‘God.’ Seriously, they call him God. Apparently he has arranged each and every step of the way to ‘toughen up’ Ayumi for a final battle. Kiyotaka used to be a detective like Madoka but he’s been missing for some time after investigating the Blade Children.

This is where this story has really begun to go off the tracks for me. We don’t know enough about the Blade Children yet, other than they’re missing a rib, have cat-slit pupils and are highly intelligent and apparently trained to kill. We have no idea why they’re cursed and must die, which is Kanon’s goal. He used to fight against the Hunters who are out to kill the children then decided to join them even if he doesn’t really want to kill his friends.

However, in my eyes, there are giant plot holes in this. One, the police have to just stand around and do nothing. Do they not question the whole ‘don’t get involved’ when a school is held hostage? And why are any of these kids doing this? They know they’re being manipulated but their reaction is ‘oh well, God planned it so it has to happen this way even though we know we’ll die.’ Does no one think to get on the train and run away? It makes no sense. If you know you’re being manipulated and there really is an out, just walk away and take your chances, then why do it. Even Hiyono says something to that effect; ‘If you’re being manipulated by someone then fighting won’t get you anywhere.’ We do learn that this is supposed to train Ayumi to be a killer to take out Hizumi, someone we don’t know much about yet. That begs the question why manipulate and kill children to make Ayumi do this? Why doesn’t Kiyotaka act

[Nadeshiko_fuyumi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sumpah.. Baca fict ini kerasa banget Shonen-ainya - MEski authornya gak maksud kesitu!!
Anw, disini, perang antara blade children dan mantan blade childrennya kerasa. Adu pintar antara Kanon Hilbert dan si cewek imut - aku lupa namanya. Argh.. Kenapa mendadak nama tokohnya lupa semua????
Intinya, Kakaknya Ayumu datang karena permintaan Eyes, Aku suka adegan adu analisis Kanon, cara dia untuk meyakinkan dirinya agar dia bisa membunuh 'mantan' temannya, dan permintaan si ketua klub surat kabar yang minta agar Ayumu gak mengikuti 'alur' yang dibuat Kiyotakan untuk gak bunuh Kanon Hilbert....