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その手をどけろ [Sono Te o Dokero] #7
Hands Off!, Volume 7
Kotarou Oohira, a transfer student, does not realize that his cousin's and a classmate's ESP powers are intensified when they touch him, as they face some dangerous situations in school and in the community.
184 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2000
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January 24, 2009
Hands Off! volume 7 by Kasane Katsumoto has good stuff in it but I'm really frustrated by the turn the series has taken. New, undefined, and more powerful powers! Contrivances galore to keep Tatsuki and Kotarou from speaking to each other and clearing anything up! Kotarou getting a convenient case of amnesia about a very important event! Yuuto shares the reader's frustration. The art is also very sloppy in places, as if someone had been cracking a whip over the creator's head while yelling, "More output! Faster, faster, Katsumoto!"
This has always been a series with jeopardy and juicy angst, but in the past the angst led to occasional payoff moments of release and there was more humor. In volume 7 we speed from one calamity to the next with few breathers. We used to get more scenes of the characters snarking at each other and just living. Here they have to sneak the snark and living around the plot devices. I wanted more scenes like the bit where Tatsuki plays basketball all out against a bunch of first-graders, shamelessly pwning them, while Kotarou flails and yells at him.
And what are their powers now? Has Tatsuki become a true telekinetic? How many powers does Kotarou have? He's raising the dead (flowers) now? It's getting ridiculous.
Enough with the cliffhanger endings!
But I still love these characters, and volume 8 is the final one. I'm dying to see if all the threads come together and if the reader gets a good emotional payoff.
Tokyopop never did answer any of my e-mails about the out of sequence pages in volume 6. ::kicks them:: At least volume 7 appears to be in the right order.
This has always been a series with jeopardy and juicy angst, but in the past the angst led to occasional payoff moments of release and there was more humor. In volume 7 we speed from one calamity to the next with few breathers. We used to get more scenes of the characters snarking at each other and just living. Here they have to sneak the snark and living around the plot devices. I wanted more scenes like the bit where Tatsuki plays basketball all out against a bunch of first-graders, shamelessly pwning them, while Kotarou flails and yells at him.
And what are their powers now? Has Tatsuki become a true telekinetic? How many powers does Kotarou have? He's raising the dead (flowers) now? It's getting ridiculous.
Enough with the cliffhanger endings!
But I still love these characters, and volume 8 is the final one. I'm dying to see if all the threads come together and if the reader gets a good emotional payoff.
Tokyopop never did answer any of my e-mails about the out of sequence pages in volume 6. ::kicks them:: At least volume 7 appears to be in the right order.
September 22, 2023
Finally, it's all out and Kotarou knows! I was afraid that, what with his memory loss, it would be one step forward, two steps back but luckily, I was wrong. Koutari was also dealt with. Now it's just Akira - or maybe his father? - causing trouble. And the cliffhanger was cruel!
October 31, 2010
Three and a half stars
June 28, 2018
Everytime Udou show up, shit gets interesting. 👌
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