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空挺ドラゴンズ [Kūtei Dragons] #11
空挺ドラゴンズ 11 [Kūtei Dragons 11]
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捕龍船「クィン・ザザ」号のミカ達は、失踪した仲間のヴァニーを追い、彼女の故郷であるアレーナへと向かう。内戦続く現地で、アレーナを悩ます「霧の龍」の存在と、ヴァニーが王室の血を引くお姫様であるという衝撃の事実を知ったミカ達は、一番銛を刺した「霧の龍」を捕るため、反体制派の軍人たちと行動を開始する! 一方ヴァニーは、霧の影響で昏睡状態となったかつての恩人・ツィータを救うため、国王軍と共に「霧の龍」討伐に動き出す。
ミカ達が行動を共にする反体制派、ヴァニーを擁する国王軍、そして「霧の龍」。三つ巴の戦いが、決着を迎える!
捕龍船「クィン・ザザ」号のミカ達は、失踪した仲間のヴァニーを追い、彼女の故郷であるアレーナへと向かう。内戦続く現地で、アレーナを悩ます「霧の龍」の存在と、ヴァニーが王室の血を引くお姫様であるという衝撃の事実を知ったミカ達は、一番銛を刺した「霧の龍」を捕るため、反体制派の軍人たちと行動を開始する! 一方ヴァニーは、霧の影響で昏睡状態となったかつての恩人・ツィータを救うため、国王軍と共に「霧の龍」討伐に動き出す。
ミカ達が行動を共にする反体制派、ヴァニーを擁する国王軍、そして「霧の龍」。三つ巴の戦いが、決着を迎える!
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December 12, 2022
I really couldn't remember exactly what happened at the end of the last volume I read as it had been so long between this one and the previous. After catching up and reading this one, damn the art is just as fantastic as I remembered, plus the developments have been really good! Hopefully, the next volume doesn't take as long to come out!
December 22, 2022
Posso finalmente dizer que adorei a arte do Taku Kuwabara nos volumes onze e doze. Não tenho nenhuma crítica a fazer porque acredito que o autor encontrou o equilíbrio necessário para fazer suas cenas serem impressionantes e detalhadas ao mesmo tempo. Algo que ele carrega desde o primeiro volume é o emprego de hachuras e vivia dizendo o quanto isso prejudicava as cenas quando mal utilizado. Pois bem, ele passou a empregar as hachuras para compor o cenário enevoado ou um céu tempestuoso; outro emprego das hachuras se dá no momento de completar a arte de uma construção. Finalmente Kuwabara desistiu de usar as hachuras no design dos personagens ou pelo menos reduziu ao mínimo. Outro elemento que o autor havia trazido era o emprego do cinza que ele usava desde o terceiro volume. Só que o cinza dele vinha em exagero e as cenas acabavam atraindo o olhar do leitor para o lugar errado. Quando o cinza toma o espaço de um dragão, ou uma cena dinâmica ou da apresentação de um cenário grandioso, está errado. Pouco a pouco, o autor conteve sua mão e passou a ser mais cuidadoso sobre aonde aplicar a "terceira cor". Agora ele usa para acrescentar texturas ou detalhes às cenas, tornando determinadas situações mais tridimensionais. Tem mais dois pontos que achei acertados do autor, mas deixo para comentar mais abaixo quando falar do décimo segundo volume.
A narrativa vai girar em Vannabell e na guerra civil em Alena. Como imaginei, o dragão serviu como uma forma de paralisar o conflito e deixar os dois lados afastados um do outro. Ao criar uma barreira natural, é dado tempo a eles de pensar sobre os motivos pelos quais a guerra tem sido realizada. Os membros do Quin Zaza acabam se colocando no meio pelo amor que eles sentem pela Vanney. Apesar de eles serem ingênuos de não acreditarem que seus esforços seriam usados como algum tipo de desculpa por um dos dois lados ao final do conflito. Notem que mesmo após o grande esforço de todos para deter o dragão, a vitória acaba indo ou para Vanney, agora conhecida como a Donzela do Povo ou para o exército parlamentar que alega terem sido os responsáveis pela derrota. Somente Gibbs tem uma vaga ideia de que isso poderia acontecer e quando os membros da tripulação se revoltam contra isso, ele é aquele que mantém a cabeça no lugar e impede todos de fazerem alguma bobagem.
Parte dessa edição é voltada para Giraud que está em um arco de provar a si mesmo. Já ficou na cara o crush que ele tem na Vanney. Então ele quer ajudar aquele que ele ama a sair daquela confusão. Mais do que isso: ele quer levá-la de volta para o Quin Zaza, que é a sua casa. Mais fácil falar do que fazer. Gostei do amadurecimento do personagem, que até pouco tempo atrás era só o cara responsável por ajudar na tarefa de navegação. Durante o conflito ele se coloca na linha de frente, e ele e Ohken conseguem descobrir o segredo por trás da névoa. O principal é que ele foi capaz de superar seus medos e se colocar em uma situação bastante perigosa, mas que serviu para ajudar seus companheiros a derrotarem seus inimigos. Pegando um pouco do que acontece no volume seguinte, Giraud revela o seu carinho por Vanney, alguém que o ajudou logo que ele chegou no caça-dragões. Com o seu jeito observador e quieto, ela o ajudou a ser inserido no grupo. Existe sim o amor do personagem por ela, mas também está presente ali uma profunda gratidão por fazê-lo se sentir parte do grupo.
Não tem como evitar e terei de falar muito sobre a personagem nessa resenha. Até porque são dois volumes inteiramente focados em seu passado e futuro. Desde a infância, a personagem se sente solitária, muito por causa das condições de seu nascimento. Mesmo sendo parte da família real, ela sabia que seria uma pessoa mais decorativa naquele ambiente, sem ter a liberdade necessária para fazer o que ela quisesse. Quando faz amizade com Twita, seu coração se abre e ela percebe que existem outras possibilidades. Como um pássaro que percebe que existe um enorme céu à sua espera. É então que ela entra para a tripulação do Quin Zaza e passa a se sentir parte de uma família. Ela sabe que existem coisas a serem resolvidas, mas a estadia no caça-dragões fornece a ela os motivos que ela precisa para continuar existindo. Por esse motivo o capítulo em que ela precisa enfrentar vários dragões sozinha é tão triste. Porque a coloca de novo no início da jornada em que ela não sabe mais quem é e qual é o seu lugar. Quando ela tem aquele encontro mais tarde, a gente percebe o quanto aquilo foi importante para ela. Porque novamente ela foi lembrada de que não está sozinha nesse mundo e que possui pessoas que se importam muito com ela.
A narrativa vai girar em Vannabell e na guerra civil em Alena. Como imaginei, o dragão serviu como uma forma de paralisar o conflito e deixar os dois lados afastados um do outro. Ao criar uma barreira natural, é dado tempo a eles de pensar sobre os motivos pelos quais a guerra tem sido realizada. Os membros do Quin Zaza acabam se colocando no meio pelo amor que eles sentem pela Vanney. Apesar de eles serem ingênuos de não acreditarem que seus esforços seriam usados como algum tipo de desculpa por um dos dois lados ao final do conflito. Notem que mesmo após o grande esforço de todos para deter o dragão, a vitória acaba indo ou para Vanney, agora conhecida como a Donzela do Povo ou para o exército parlamentar que alega terem sido os responsáveis pela derrota. Somente Gibbs tem uma vaga ideia de que isso poderia acontecer e quando os membros da tripulação se revoltam contra isso, ele é aquele que mantém a cabeça no lugar e impede todos de fazerem alguma bobagem.
Parte dessa edição é voltada para Giraud que está em um arco de provar a si mesmo. Já ficou na cara o crush que ele tem na Vanney. Então ele quer ajudar aquele que ele ama a sair daquela confusão. Mais do que isso: ele quer levá-la de volta para o Quin Zaza, que é a sua casa. Mais fácil falar do que fazer. Gostei do amadurecimento do personagem, que até pouco tempo atrás era só o cara responsável por ajudar na tarefa de navegação. Durante o conflito ele se coloca na linha de frente, e ele e Ohken conseguem descobrir o segredo por trás da névoa. O principal é que ele foi capaz de superar seus medos e se colocar em uma situação bastante perigosa, mas que serviu para ajudar seus companheiros a derrotarem seus inimigos. Pegando um pouco do que acontece no volume seguinte, Giraud revela o seu carinho por Vanney, alguém que o ajudou logo que ele chegou no caça-dragões. Com o seu jeito observador e quieto, ela o ajudou a ser inserido no grupo. Existe sim o amor do personagem por ela, mas também está presente ali uma profunda gratidão por fazê-lo se sentir parte do grupo.
Não tem como evitar e terei de falar muito sobre a personagem nessa resenha. Até porque são dois volumes inteiramente focados em seu passado e futuro. Desde a infância, a personagem se sente solitária, muito por causa das condições de seu nascimento. Mesmo sendo parte da família real, ela sabia que seria uma pessoa mais decorativa naquele ambiente, sem ter a liberdade necessária para fazer o que ela quisesse. Quando faz amizade com Twita, seu coração se abre e ela percebe que existem outras possibilidades. Como um pássaro que percebe que existe um enorme céu à sua espera. É então que ela entra para a tripulação do Quin Zaza e passa a se sentir parte de uma família. Ela sabe que existem coisas a serem resolvidas, mas a estadia no caça-dragões fornece a ela os motivos que ela precisa para continuar existindo. Por esse motivo o capítulo em que ela precisa enfrentar vários dragões sozinha é tão triste. Porque a coloca de novo no início da jornada em que ela não sabe mais quem é e qual é o seu lugar. Quando ela tem aquele encontro mais tarde, a gente percebe o quanto aquilo foi importante para ela. Porque novamente ela foi lembrada de que não está sozinha nesse mundo e que possui pessoas que se importam muito com ela.
August 28, 2023
Best art since the manga's debut volume. Most consistent and reliable character development to date. Most effective drama in a good while. DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 reads like an epic Third Act, but in truth, the book is merely another collection of adrenaline-dump journeys of the Quin Zaza and its crew of misfits.
The near-distant archipelago nation of Arena suffers the throes of civil war, often beneath the hallucinogenic fog of an impossibly deadly dragon. Vannie, the bastard child of a deposed royal, has returned to her homeland to find her only friend in a coma and the authorities bickering endlessly. The hard-drinking stoic thought she would apologize to the one person she sadly missed during her many years away, but apparently, once a draker, always a draker.
DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 posits a pair of converging stories: Vannabelle hunts the Mistmaker dragon in a bid to level the angst of the people; the partial crew of the Quin Zaza likewise hunts the beast so as to open a path to diplomacy between the nations' two feuding sides. Brilliantly, this graphic novel largely eschews the low-hanging political discourse in favor of intense, brutal, hauntingly real action sequences that last for dozens of pages at a time.
The creative team indulges in the miraculous details and sprawling environmental designs that made this manga such an incredible tome at its onset. An overhead shot of the destroyed royal palace of Arena offers a view of an immense curtain wall, rivers of lush acreage, and layers of beautiful architecture left to rot. Intrepid fight scenes of hapless humans against a horde of dragons, full-size and dwarf, tease and toy with shadow, swivel the camera and play with perspective to ratchet up the intensity, and occasionally bless readers with two-page spreads to showcase the sheer magnitude of terror that awaits the crew once it steps into the darkened nest of a massive, ferocious, intelligent creature.
Episode #59 ("Solo Battle") and Episode #60 ("Beyond the Mists"), combined, register more than 50 pages of haltingly aggressive and exquisitely timed action. Vannie reaches the nest of the Mistmaker dragon first, and soon thereafter, the book's one-against-many combat scenes are raw and utterly compelling. The woman skirts a vine-covered stone dais, skids under the tentacled grasp of a dwarf dragon, swings her pile lance into position, and knifes her way through, blood and all. She knees a dragon in the jaw to free herself, she bites a limb to squirm out of another creature's grasp, and in the chapter's most fitting sequence, she dives for the rifle of a long-fallen soldier, the panel angled in her favor (as if to expose and improve her sightline) and fires and hits her target, only for the Mistmaker to seep from the darkness like a massive, Lovecraftian relief etching.
Dynamic and particular panel arrangements, as well as effectively implemented effects and speedlines, generate a level of urgency very rarely seen in the manga thus far. However much this comic book thrives on short bursts of action, DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 gifts readers prolonged adventure at the edge of their seat. The final product is fantastic. The current volume inserts a bit of fanservice, when Mika arrives on the scene to help Vannie finish off the dragon, what with her broken collarbone and busted ribs, but the implications therein don't last too long.
The near-distant archipelago nation of Arena suffers the throes of civil war, often beneath the hallucinogenic fog of an impossibly deadly dragon. Vannie, the bastard child of a deposed royal, has returned to her homeland to find her only friend in a coma and the authorities bickering endlessly. The hard-drinking stoic thought she would apologize to the one person she sadly missed during her many years away, but apparently, once a draker, always a draker.
DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 posits a pair of converging stories: Vannabelle hunts the Mistmaker dragon in a bid to level the angst of the people; the partial crew of the Quin Zaza likewise hunts the beast so as to open a path to diplomacy between the nations' two feuding sides. Brilliantly, this graphic novel largely eschews the low-hanging political discourse in favor of intense, brutal, hauntingly real action sequences that last for dozens of pages at a time.
The creative team indulges in the miraculous details and sprawling environmental designs that made this manga such an incredible tome at its onset. An overhead shot of the destroyed royal palace of Arena offers a view of an immense curtain wall, rivers of lush acreage, and layers of beautiful architecture left to rot. Intrepid fight scenes of hapless humans against a horde of dragons, full-size and dwarf, tease and toy with shadow, swivel the camera and play with perspective to ratchet up the intensity, and occasionally bless readers with two-page spreads to showcase the sheer magnitude of terror that awaits the crew once it steps into the darkened nest of a massive, ferocious, intelligent creature.
Episode #59 ("Solo Battle") and Episode #60 ("Beyond the Mists"), combined, register more than 50 pages of haltingly aggressive and exquisitely timed action. Vannie reaches the nest of the Mistmaker dragon first, and soon thereafter, the book's one-against-many combat scenes are raw and utterly compelling. The woman skirts a vine-covered stone dais, skids under the tentacled grasp of a dwarf dragon, swings her pile lance into position, and knifes her way through, blood and all. She knees a dragon in the jaw to free herself, she bites a limb to squirm out of another creature's grasp, and in the chapter's most fitting sequence, she dives for the rifle of a long-fallen soldier, the panel angled in her favor (as if to expose and improve her sightline) and fires and hits her target, only for the Mistmaker to seep from the darkness like a massive, Lovecraftian relief etching.
Dynamic and particular panel arrangements, as well as effectively implemented effects and speedlines, generate a level of urgency very rarely seen in the manga thus far. However much this comic book thrives on short bursts of action, DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 gifts readers prolonged adventure at the edge of their seat. The final product is fantastic. The current volume inserts a bit of fanservice, when Mika arrives on the scene to help Vannie finish off the dragon, what with her broken collarbone and busted ribs, but the implications therein don't last too long.
March 31, 2022
Volume un tantinello sottotono: la lettura è sempre molto piacevole, ma qui mi ha lasciato poco...anche perché, a quanto pare, stiamo per salutare uno degli elementi più importanti della Quin Zaza. Infatti, il volume 11 ci porta a scoprire il destino di Vannie e del regno di Arena, grazie anche all'intervento della nostra banda di disagiati che aiutano ad abbattere il drago responsabile della nebbia che aleggiava sull'isola. E' stato bello vedere Mika e Vannie combattere di nuovo insieme, dopottutto sono i migliori nel loro lavoro.
Figlia illegittima del precedente sovrano, Vannie è chiamata a occupare un posto difficile, posto che la costringerà ad abbandonare la libertà conosciuta sulla Quin Zaza in nome di una responsabilità che, almeno in teoria, non sarebbe mai dovuta toccare a lei: la nuova regina di Arena, colei che ha sconfitto il drago e portato la pace, un simbolo per entrambe le fazioni in lotta per dare inizio a una nuova era in cui la monarchia non può più fare il bello e il cattivo tempo. Una scelta sofferta, ma d'alta parte quella libertà è stata guadagnata a caro prezzo e Vannie non è mai stata in grado di godersela fino in fondo. Sarà strano vedere la ciurma senza di lei, sono curiosa di vedere se verrà inserito un nuovo personaggio al suo posto, oppure no. Comunque sia, mi aspettavo più sentimento alla notizia di questa separazione...forse si vedrà qualcosa nel prossimo volume o forse tutti hanno ben compreso il significato di questa scelta e hanno deciso di non fare troppe sceneggiate. Indubbiamente, Vannie è una delle vittime di tutta questa situazione - cresciuta in completa solitudine nel palazzo reale (per evitare di far incazzare la regina), lasciata sola nel bel mezzo di una rivolta, costretta a impersonare la sua morte per poter fuggire, e adesso chiamata a gestire una posizione di comando che, in teoria, non le spetterebbe. Sicuramente si sentirà la sua mancanza sulla Quin Zaza, visto che era una delle poche sane di testa...
Figlia illegittima del precedente sovrano, Vannie è chiamata a occupare un posto difficile, posto che la costringerà ad abbandonare la libertà conosciuta sulla Quin Zaza in nome di una responsabilità che, almeno in teoria, non sarebbe mai dovuta toccare a lei: la nuova regina di Arena, colei che ha sconfitto il drago e portato la pace, un simbolo per entrambe le fazioni in lotta per dare inizio a una nuova era in cui la monarchia non può più fare il bello e il cattivo tempo. Una scelta sofferta, ma d'alta parte quella libertà è stata guadagnata a caro prezzo e Vannie non è mai stata in grado di godersela fino in fondo. Sarà strano vedere la ciurma senza di lei, sono curiosa di vedere se verrà inserito un nuovo personaggio al suo posto, oppure no. Comunque sia, mi aspettavo più sentimento alla notizia di questa separazione...forse si vedrà qualcosa nel prossimo volume o forse tutti hanno ben compreso il significato di questa scelta e hanno deciso di non fare troppe sceneggiate. Indubbiamente, Vannie è una delle vittime di tutta questa situazione - cresciuta in completa solitudine nel palazzo reale (per evitare di far incazzare la regina), lasciata sola nel bel mezzo di una rivolta, costretta a impersonare la sua morte per poter fuggire, e adesso chiamata a gestire una posizione di comando che, in teoria, non le spetterebbe. Sicuramente si sentirà la sua mancanza sulla Quin Zaza, visto che era una delle poche sane di testa...
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June 28, 2022
Et encore un tome de dévoré, je suis désormais à jour dans cette série. Par contre, je suis très impatiente de savoir quand le prochain tome sort! Cette série devient de plus en plus passionnante. Plus on avance, plus on en apprend sur les membres de l’équipage Inutile de préciser qu’encore une fois la couverture est à tomber tant elle est magnifique. Je suis vraiment fan de ça et je crois que je ne cesserais de le dire mais les couvertures de Drifting Dragons font vraiment parti des plus belles.
Dans ce onzième tome, on découvre que Vannie est en vérité une princesse! Mika, Oken, Giraud, Gibbs, Mayne et Takita partent sur ses traces et finissent par arriver à Arena et apprennent la vérité. Ils sont fins prêts à chasser le grand dragon qui sévit dans la région, les dragonniers passent à l’action en s’alliant à l’armée parlementaire. Pendant ce temps là, de l’autre côté de la cité, Vannie se prépare à attaquer seule le dragon afin de tirer du brouillard l’amie qui l’avait aidée à s’enfuir autrefois!
Qu’est ce que j’ai aimé ce tome ohlala! Je l’ai vraiment trouvé génial! Un peu plus concentrée sur Vannie, on découvre son histoire avec son amie, celle qui l’a aidée à s’enfuir. On découvre aussi comment elle était au palais royal et j’en passe. C’était vraiment passionnant de voir ça. De plus, je trouve que Vannie est un excellent personnage. Je la trouve si courageuse, elle n’hésite pas à se lancer dans une mission quasi impossible pour pouvoir sauver son amie. Mais elle peut compter sur ses amis du Quin Zaza. Ils sont venus à sa rescousse et Mika va grandement l’aider d’ailleurs à la fin. D’ailleurs cette fin m’a un peu brisé le coeur tout de même. Je l’ai trouvé si triste… J’espère vraiment que la suite ne ce passera pas comme on peut le penser en finissant ce tome.
Je pourrais même dire que ce tome si est un de mes préférés. Je l’ai vraiment trouvé génial à lire et à découvrir. Le personnage de Vannie est vraiment un des personnages que je préfère. Je suis contente de voir un pan de son passé. Mais cette fin m’a vraiment rendue triste et il me tarde vraiment d’avoir le prochain tome entre les mains, j’ai grandement besoin de réponse pour le coup!
Dans ce onzième tome, on découvre que Vannie est en vérité une princesse! Mika, Oken, Giraud, Gibbs, Mayne et Takita partent sur ses traces et finissent par arriver à Arena et apprennent la vérité. Ils sont fins prêts à chasser le grand dragon qui sévit dans la région, les dragonniers passent à l’action en s’alliant à l’armée parlementaire. Pendant ce temps là, de l’autre côté de la cité, Vannie se prépare à attaquer seule le dragon afin de tirer du brouillard l’amie qui l’avait aidée à s’enfuir autrefois!
Qu’est ce que j’ai aimé ce tome ohlala! Je l’ai vraiment trouvé génial! Un peu plus concentrée sur Vannie, on découvre son histoire avec son amie, celle qui l’a aidée à s’enfuir. On découvre aussi comment elle était au palais royal et j’en passe. C’était vraiment passionnant de voir ça. De plus, je trouve que Vannie est un excellent personnage. Je la trouve si courageuse, elle n’hésite pas à se lancer dans une mission quasi impossible pour pouvoir sauver son amie. Mais elle peut compter sur ses amis du Quin Zaza. Ils sont venus à sa rescousse et Mika va grandement l’aider d’ailleurs à la fin. D’ailleurs cette fin m’a un peu brisé le coeur tout de même. Je l’ai trouvé si triste… J’espère vraiment que la suite ne ce passera pas comme on peut le penser en finissant ce tome.
Je pourrais même dire que ce tome si est un de mes préférés. Je l’ai vraiment trouvé génial à lire et à découvrir. Le personnage de Vannie est vraiment un des personnages que je préfère. Je suis contente de voir un pan de son passé. Mais cette fin m’a vraiment rendue triste et il me tarde vraiment d’avoir le prochain tome entre les mains, j’ai grandement besoin de réponse pour le coup!
May 4, 2022
Je continue à suivre ce manga avec toujours autant de plaisir et d’admiration devant les planches qui sont toujours aussi somptueuses ! Ce onzième tome s’ouvre sur un nouveau chapitre mettant en avant Vanabelle dont on découvre enfin l’histoire.
Voilà un tome trépidant qui mélange savamment bien actions, batailles et rebondissements ! Si les membres de l’équipage du Quin Zaza restent fidèles à leurs convictions, Vannie va devoir faire des choix et ce sera également l’occasion d’en apprendre plus sur son passé. J’ai adoré les scènes avec elle.
Il n’y a pas de temps mort dans cette suite palpitante ! J’ai vraiment aimé et passé un bon moment.
Comme je le disais plus haut, les dessins sont toujours aussi beaux et les décors des plus soignés, un vrai régal pour les yeux. Il y a d’ailleurs certaines planches, dont des scènes de combats qui sont carrément à couper le souffle !
Je ne vais pas trop entrer dans les détails de cette suite pour ne pas vous gâcher la lecture, mais sachez juste que plus on avance et plus Drifting Dragon déploie ses ailes pour nous offrir une sacrée traversée.
J’ai vraiment aimé ce nouveau tome qui a su répondre à quelques de mes questions et vu certaines décisions de la part de Vannie notamment je suis curieuse de savoir ce qui va arriver par la suite ! Vivement le prochain volume.
Voilà un tome trépidant qui mélange savamment bien actions, batailles et rebondissements ! Si les membres de l’équipage du Quin Zaza restent fidèles à leurs convictions, Vannie va devoir faire des choix et ce sera également l’occasion d’en apprendre plus sur son passé. J’ai adoré les scènes avec elle.
Il n’y a pas de temps mort dans cette suite palpitante ! J’ai vraiment aimé et passé un bon moment.
Comme je le disais plus haut, les dessins sont toujours aussi beaux et les décors des plus soignés, un vrai régal pour les yeux. Il y a d’ailleurs certaines planches, dont des scènes de combats qui sont carrément à couper le souffle !
Je ne vais pas trop entrer dans les détails de cette suite pour ne pas vous gâcher la lecture, mais sachez juste que plus on avance et plus Drifting Dragon déploie ses ailes pour nous offrir une sacrée traversée.
J’ai vraiment aimé ce nouveau tome qui a su répondre à quelques de mes questions et vu certaines décisions de la part de Vannie notamment je suis curieuse de savoir ce qui va arriver par la suite ! Vivement le prochain volume.
December 16, 2025
IS SHE LEAVING????
Drifting Dragons Review
5/5 stars
This will be a spoiler free review. Onto the review!
I found another new favorite manga series completely by accident. How? I stumbled across volume five for a dollar at a thrift shop and immediately fell in love with this series the moment I started it. I’m currently waiting on volume 14 to stop being checked out from the library so I can continue the series, but I think whoever’s reading this series is taking their time working through it very slowly. Noooooo…
In this story we follow a team of drakers who live on an airship and hunt dragons for food. Dragons in this world are giant eldritch monsters that occasionally attack cities at random. So it’s not like they’re out there hunting down cute lil dragons for sport. Although not all dragons will eventually become aggressive and attack people, they all have the potential to do so.
Despite my efforts to explain to you all why it’s sometimes ok to kill these “dragons,” I know that some of you might still not be cool with that, and that’s fine. If you feel that you wouldn’t be able to read a series in which these creatures are killed for food, then go ahead and walk away from this one. This is a major issue that people sometimes have when they start this series, and I wouldn’t want any of you to be uncomfortable with that.
Although, if you are planning on sticking around with this series, you’ll very quickly find that not only do readers sometimes take issue with that, but so do people in this world as well. There are a lot of people living in this world who hate drakers because they don’t think dragons should be hunted for food when farm animals exist. What they keep forgetting is that a cow isn’t going to burn a city to the ground just because it felt like being angry today.
Be prepared for these sorts of ethical discussions, because they’re all over this series. I’ve been thinking of Drifting Dragons as a more serious, skyfaring version of Delicious in Dungeon in my head, but since I haven’t read Delicious in Dungeon yet, I have no idea if that’s an accurate assumption or not. Look at me, finding more series to add to my tbr when my tbr is already way too big as it is…
Overall, the main plot events are related to taking down big dragons and meeting other people who interact with dragons in different ways. For example, they meet one ship and its crew that study dragons scientifically, and another ship that hunts dragons for the fun of it. Everyone has different ideas about how dragons should be treated, and those opinions often conflict with each other.
As the story goes on, you learn more about the backstories of some of the main characters, which is always very interesting. It usually comes up when they’re hunting a particular dragon, so you get both the cool dragon stuff alongside an emotionally gripping chunk of character development. I’ve never seen a story that pairs plot and character development in this exact way, so it’s really nice to get something that feels new and fresh.
At the end of some of the chapters, there are recipes for cooking different dragon dishes, and occasionally other dishes that don’t involve dragon meat or dragon eggs. I think these recipes would pretty easily translate to other real world foods if you substitute out dragon meat for chicken or pork or whatever meat you prefer. I’m interested in actually trying some of these recipes, because they all look so delicious.
I was able to find a few of them on the wiki after returning the manga to the library, but not all of them. Maybe I’ll check the manga out again and send the missing ones to whoever manages the Drifting Dragons wiki. Some of my favorites that I really wanted to try aren’t on the wiki. It looks like they mostly only have the ones from the first couple of volumes, but must have given up after a while. Not a manga giving me homework…
If you couldn’t tell by the fact that I’ve just been rambling on about random parts of this manga, I loved it so much. This series gives me so much to think about that I could just go on for days if you all let me. The dragons have such strange designs, the food looks delicious, the characters are really fun to learn about, and all the themes are so fascinating. I’m currently waiting on volumes 14-16 to get returned to the library so I can get caught up, and they can’t come back soon enough.
Also, a couple years ago, Netflix started an anime adaptation of Drifting Dragons, which I’m really sad won’t be continuing. It used a lot of 3D animation to capture the huge ships and dragons, which at first I thought I wouldn’t like, but I eventually grew to be ok with. I don’t feel like every single dragon I saw was as perfectly close to their manga designs as I would have liked, but the ones we see a lot of are pretty accurate, so that’s good. I’m not sure why nobody watched this series and why it was canceled. Maybe the manga wasn’t very far in translation yet? Idk. I’m just really sad about it.
If you’d be cool with reading a series about hunting and eating dragons, especially if you liked Dungeon Meshi, I’d love to know what you think of this one. I get the feeling that I’d probably like Dungeon Meshi based on how much I loved Drifting Dragons, so maybe I’ll get around to that one at some point. Don’t worry about trying to convince me to read Dungeon Meshi, I’ve already got it on my list. I will eventually get to it at some point. Just maybe not right now. I need to finish getting caught up with this one first.
Have a nice day/night everyone!
Drifting Dragons Review
5/5 stars
This will be a spoiler free review. Onto the review!
I found another new favorite manga series completely by accident. How? I stumbled across volume five for a dollar at a thrift shop and immediately fell in love with this series the moment I started it. I’m currently waiting on volume 14 to stop being checked out from the library so I can continue the series, but I think whoever’s reading this series is taking their time working through it very slowly. Noooooo…
In this story we follow a team of drakers who live on an airship and hunt dragons for food. Dragons in this world are giant eldritch monsters that occasionally attack cities at random. So it’s not like they’re out there hunting down cute lil dragons for sport. Although not all dragons will eventually become aggressive and attack people, they all have the potential to do so.
Despite my efforts to explain to you all why it’s sometimes ok to kill these “dragons,” I know that some of you might still not be cool with that, and that’s fine. If you feel that you wouldn’t be able to read a series in which these creatures are killed for food, then go ahead and walk away from this one. This is a major issue that people sometimes have when they start this series, and I wouldn’t want any of you to be uncomfortable with that.
Although, if you are planning on sticking around with this series, you’ll very quickly find that not only do readers sometimes take issue with that, but so do people in this world as well. There are a lot of people living in this world who hate drakers because they don’t think dragons should be hunted for food when farm animals exist. What they keep forgetting is that a cow isn’t going to burn a city to the ground just because it felt like being angry today.
Be prepared for these sorts of ethical discussions, because they’re all over this series. I’ve been thinking of Drifting Dragons as a more serious, skyfaring version of Delicious in Dungeon in my head, but since I haven’t read Delicious in Dungeon yet, I have no idea if that’s an accurate assumption or not. Look at me, finding more series to add to my tbr when my tbr is already way too big as it is…
Overall, the main plot events are related to taking down big dragons and meeting other people who interact with dragons in different ways. For example, they meet one ship and its crew that study dragons scientifically, and another ship that hunts dragons for the fun of it. Everyone has different ideas about how dragons should be treated, and those opinions often conflict with each other.
As the story goes on, you learn more about the backstories of some of the main characters, which is always very interesting. It usually comes up when they’re hunting a particular dragon, so you get both the cool dragon stuff alongside an emotionally gripping chunk of character development. I’ve never seen a story that pairs plot and character development in this exact way, so it’s really nice to get something that feels new and fresh.
At the end of some of the chapters, there are recipes for cooking different dragon dishes, and occasionally other dishes that don’t involve dragon meat or dragon eggs. I think these recipes would pretty easily translate to other real world foods if you substitute out dragon meat for chicken or pork or whatever meat you prefer. I’m interested in actually trying some of these recipes, because they all look so delicious.
I was able to find a few of them on the wiki after returning the manga to the library, but not all of them. Maybe I’ll check the manga out again and send the missing ones to whoever manages the Drifting Dragons wiki. Some of my favorites that I really wanted to try aren’t on the wiki. It looks like they mostly only have the ones from the first couple of volumes, but must have given up after a while. Not a manga giving me homework…
If you couldn’t tell by the fact that I’ve just been rambling on about random parts of this manga, I loved it so much. This series gives me so much to think about that I could just go on for days if you all let me. The dragons have such strange designs, the food looks delicious, the characters are really fun to learn about, and all the themes are so fascinating. I’m currently waiting on volumes 14-16 to get returned to the library so I can get caught up, and they can’t come back soon enough.
Also, a couple years ago, Netflix started an anime adaptation of Drifting Dragons, which I’m really sad won’t be continuing. It used a lot of 3D animation to capture the huge ships and dragons, which at first I thought I wouldn’t like, but I eventually grew to be ok with. I don’t feel like every single dragon I saw was as perfectly close to their manga designs as I would have liked, but the ones we see a lot of are pretty accurate, so that’s good. I’m not sure why nobody watched this series and why it was canceled. Maybe the manga wasn’t very far in translation yet? Idk. I’m just really sad about it.
If you’d be cool with reading a series about hunting and eating dragons, especially if you liked Dungeon Meshi, I’d love to know what you think of this one. I get the feeling that I’d probably like Dungeon Meshi based on how much I loved Drifting Dragons, so maybe I’ll get around to that one at some point. Don’t worry about trying to convince me to read Dungeon Meshi, I’ve already got it on my list. I will eventually get to it at some point. Just maybe not right now. I need to finish getting caught up with this one first.
Have a nice day/night everyone!
June 6, 2022
Je suis un peu triste face à la fin de ce tome, c'est que je m'y suis attachée à l'équipage du Quin Zaza ! Du coup se dire qu'ils risquent de perdre quelqu'un j'aime pas...
On verra ce qui se passera dans le tome 12
On verra ce qui se passera dans le tome 12
January 12, 2023
I loved this volume like all the other!! Very excited for what’s in store!
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February 11, 2023Se vienen cositas.
June 25, 2023
I can’t believe Vannie is leaving!! 😭😭😭
Sometimes I ship her with Mika ❤️
Sometimes I ship her with Mika ❤️
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 24, 2023
I missed this ragtag team of drakers.
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