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.
Two big developments here: their actions can change the future, AND they can't just choose to change the future directly. The future stuff goes a different direction, but if they deliberately try to alter how things turn out they get interrupted. We still don't know why or how, I guess right now the future changes but doesn't actually change in a meaningful way, but maybe that's because we're not far enough into plot nonsense for things to have a noticeable change.
They really are shoe horning in little bits of fan service -.- like bruh. Kagetora easily is my favorite, thought they were gonna analyze the footage again and catch something. They did provide a question I had before, where is the main crew, gonna guess Ageha is gonna be taken next volume and that they’ll prevent people from leaving or they’ll have to go in Psyren on that day. Smart that he took granny’s luggage, did it work? I feel like it might’ve.
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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.
More and more pieces are coming together as Ageha's time marches towards cataclysm, but can anything be done about it? The use of time travel and premonition in this series is wonderful, and numerous fascinating questions about the interplay of Psyren and present day are emerging. There are so many layers and limitations to what's happening that our protagonists are severely impaired in their efforts. The emotional toil is palpable, and their refusal to give up regardless is what makes them such engaging, likable leads (flaws and all). A pair of strong cliffhanger keep anticipation high going into the next volume.
Tragedy is imminent, and that might be the least of Ageha's worries. Can't wait to read more.
What would you do if your actions could change a future that you've already seen?
That's the question facing our main character as he strives to prevent the cataclysm that formed the world of Psyren. The kids involved are finally stepping into the arena of battle - and it's against some terribly powerful minions of the series big bad.
This was a pretty solid volume, emotional and driving the pacing at a punishing pace, but I think the pacing really works out for this one. Every chapter, a major change to the status quo seems to be happening and it's clear the story has finished its setup and is starting to shift toward end-game.
A lot of stakes are being setup here so there is very little resolution but I like and enjoy the direction we are headed.
I love how passionate Ageha is about protecting everyone. And we get a lot of payoff from this Inui storyline. Finally Ageha acts on the knowledge he has...I love the idea of the video tape...
I love Shiner so much more than Dolkey. Haha, so quick, so ruthless. I enjoyed seeing his POV.
It's great to finally have the big bad revealed. The protagonists starting to see how they've changed the future is cool. I'm not sure about the way they're blocked from making further changes by being sent to Psyren, though. I'll have to see how that plays out in further volumes. I found the fights here to be a little hard to understand, but that may simply be because it's been a while since I read volume 6.
I like how this series has been iron on the fact that the characters are not allowed to reveal their knowledge of the future, it makes for a consistently effective conflict. I'd really like to know why Nemesis Q is so insistent on this though. 3.5 stars
Right off the bat Amagi Miroku! I was pretty worried about Kyle and I couldn't believe the way Genesis Q prevented the team from stopping the plane! Not a very fair volume for the Main protagonist
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