The truth of Yuri and Mitsuba's past comes to light, revealing a connection to the terrorist group they could never have imagined. With the help of a rogue agent within the Public Safety Commission, they will leave Ana and infiltrate the group. But can their new ally be trusted, or does she have a hidden agenda of her own?
I like the idea, but that I have been finding with most stories that I have been reading these days is that it’s lacking in execution. The book just tosses interesting points and character interactions at you like they are just playing cards and all of the far too fast, they needed to slow down and let more build up happen. That was one of the reasons that I liked I”s it was a manga that spooned it out to you, but not in a way that was like COME ON GET ON WITH IT ALREADY. Every bite had such good flavor that you could savor it and didn’t have to wonder where your next meal was coming from. I give it a 3 but I really should give it a 2. I have two more of the books sitting on the shelf, I kind of hope they finish in 4 because 1 I don’t think I could do a 5th book AND A.D.V. is dead and there won’t be anymore!
2.5 rounded down. While the mysteries and shared pasts and intersecting objectives of everyone is nice this is still altogether quite lackluster and bland with much less action and a lot more dialogue in this volume. The mysteries and conspiracies continue to escalate as we get introduced to a lot of new people such as the police covering the Kakusei cult (which hasn’t really done much than be vaguely ominous, poorly described, and do bad things offscreen for everyone to go OoOOooOh! that terrorist cult sure is bad), and many more people who’ve left the Kakusei cult and have their own deals and objectives like Moe (a poorly named yakuza doctor amd pseudo-protector of Anna) and Reverend Kunita. The actual plotting is a bit of a mess with things coincidentally happening like Kunita meeting Yuri and Anna through being a taxi driver? I guess you could say he was undercover to try and get them to come to him but how would he know they were there in the first place as they met up really soon after the explosion so he wouldn’t have enough time to hear about it and move over really except the narrative wants us to believe that. :/ I know Kategawa Yua wants us to care for these three as a trio but I really haven’t attached to them. They just aren’t that interesting and haven’t done much aside from following Anna’s orders. Yuri is given this poorly done romance with Anna also. I wish Kategawa would’ve spent more time on the action than trying to flesh out these characters or if she did want to flesh them out have them do more stuff or have more going on for each of them.
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The story is still interesting but this volume dumped in a bunch of new characters that were poorly defined. As a consequence, the story is hard to follow. On to volume 3.
It was a very thrilling and weird book. But I still enjoyed it, it was beyond of what I expected. Which I loved a lot. It let me wandering what was going to happen next. I love this book looking forward, to volume 3.....