Yoshina Ageha is a high school student who offers to help people with their problems for 10,000 yen. He'll take care of your stalkers, find your lost animal, whatever you want. One day when he's heading home, a nearby pay phone rings, and he picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own voice echoing. After finding a mysterious telephone card with the word 'Psyren' printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a crazy new world.
I actually liked seeing the kids all grown up, they were pretty cool and I enjoyed it but then we stuck with them and pretty much attitude hasn’t really changed…and then Mari is essentially boob girl now -.- it’s so dumb. Van really is the only one who changed, that was due to Ian dying in his sleep. Also I was so surprised it opened up with Ageha losing his leg and all the guys essentially being dead…but yeah they’re pretty much alive. I was expecting it to be a case where people would die during the series and that would’ve been interesting but I can confidently say everyone will probably live by the end of the series. EVEN TATSUO IS ALIVE!!! It feels like a lot of consequences were lowered here. Rebirthday info dumb was interesting and seeing the aftermath is crazy but knowing stuff can change makes this null and void, I’m guessing they won’t be going back till the end now and I’m sure everything will be fixed.
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The biggest lore developments so far as we meet the 'resistance', find out what happened to all the past characters now that we're in the future, and get at least a bit of an idea of what's going to be happening in the immediate future.
Psyren takes place a carefully constructed world and its overarching plot continually builds chapter by chapter. Don't start here - it really must be read from the beginning.
W.I.S.E. finds Ageha intriguing and has decided to "invite" him to accompany them back to headquarters, assuming Dolkey doesn't kill him first. The stakes keep getting raised with each subsequent trip to Psyren and the situation here is dire. There are several phenomenal twists and reveals here that are seamlessly integrated with the action and progressing story lines. The potential effects of time travel and the associated themes and dilemmas underlying this volumes developments are fascinating and the implications will certainly continue to be felt throughout the series. And in a volume filled with surprises, the biggest was saved to the end and serves as a riveting hook for the next installment.
One of my favorite volumes of Psyren yet. Highly recommended.
I love the Psyren series and this volume did not disappoint.
This volume catches us up on all the changes made to the future.
I've been waiting for a Dolkey battle - a real one and boy did we get one delivered! New abilities and some real damage being spread around. Love the changes to history! The Elmore gang in action is a thing to behold, though I'm now on tenderhooks - how many volumes will it take to resolve! shiner is the one that keeps on kicking too, love it! These guys are mega and we aren't to the big guns yet! Love the re intro of some old faces, though some are missing...
The ending is a cliffhanger with Nemesis Q - maybe we'll finally learn more about the mysterious figure...?
Some really stellar drawing in this volume particularly in Call 64!
There's no escaping it, the star of Vol. 8 is the appearance in the future - in psyren - of some characters I never expected to see there. They have news - once again, history has been changed. Slowly but surely our main characters are doing it. But along the way, others have been lost.
The first half of this book is essentially a protracted but pretty satisfying fight scene. The second half is finally explaining a lot of what happened - how the world got destroyed, who's left and how things have changed. And at the end... who should show up but their enemy? friend? Nemesis Q.
the moment when i saw kyle all grown up and alive was wonderful, like for real, this manga gets grim and i had no idea how they were going to make it out
and then! alive children!! alive and adorable children on top of that, they were so happy to see ageha, it was beautiful
nahh you're not getting any interesting critical insights out of me this volume
just my decree that it was some good feelings inspiring stuff. 4 stars
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I definitely have a hard time remembering everyone's name, as they're just so many characters introduced in a small amount of time- but other than that- I really do enjoy this series a lot. The plot scheme of it all-- the sucker punch of Psyren and Nemesis Q. It's all driving me crazy with anticipation to keep reading-- but hopefully not too quickly.
All thanks goes to my friend Jeremy who is my main supplier...
It's nice to finally get a lot more detail on Psyren and how it came about. On the other hand, an element of cosmic horror has been introduced to the plot, which I admittedly probably could have seen coming given the weirdness of the Taboo. Not sure how I feel about this, but I'll probably make up my mind once future volumes have revealed more about it.
Psyren is crazy, and I love it. The future keeps changing, and at the conclusion of this volume we're left to wonder about the future of Nemesis Q, the instigator of changing the future (or so we assume). It was especially fun to see the kids all grown up and more powerful than ever. I can't wait to see what's going to happen next.