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Title: Song of Doom
Series: Shaman King #10
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 208
Format: Digital Copy
Title: Song of Doom
Series: Shaman King #10
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 208
Format: Digital Copy
| Synopsis: |
Our Gang is on
Route 66 but are in the middle of nowhere. Ryu and Tokagero use the
Legendary Hitchhiker Thumb move and the group gets an immediate
pickup by Farmer Bill. At the next town they begin their exploration
for the Patch tribe, only to find out there is no Patch Tribe. The
local librarian reads them a small scrap of poetry from an extinct
tribe that seems to show the Patch are evil.
The librarian gives
them the address of the last surviving Seminoan, a woman named
Lilirara. The scene cuts away to her declaiming how the Patch are
subverting the Shaman Fight so they can rule themselves. She vows to
stop Our Gang so they won't further the Patch's aims. She subjects
them to the fight the last Seminoans had and Our Gang all have their
limbs chopped off,in their minds.
Lilirara shows Our
Gang a vision of what happened and it turns out that the Patch were
trying to create a Shaman Empire. To be more specific, someone who
looked like an adult Hao with his Fire Spirit was trying to forge a
Shaman Empire. Our Gang convinces her that they mean to oppose Hao
and she tells them what she knows of the Patch village. Once they
leave, Hao shows up and kills her. Hao does reveal that he was the
evil Patch shaman from 500 years ago and that it was an Asakura who
stopped him. Now he wants Yoh to grow strong so that Hao can make Yoh
a great servant and thus gain his revenge.
Our Gang meets up
with another shaman from England who drops his pants upon meeting
them to prove he's a guy. Yeah.....
His name is Lyserg
and Horohoro and Ren attack him on suspicion that he's an ally of
Hao. Lyserg takes them both down quite easily, which is when Yoh gets
involved. He warns Lyserg off and prepares to take his friends to the
local hospital. Lyserg reveals his backstory of how Hao killed his
parents 8 years ago and that he, Lyserg, must gather strong allies to
defeat Hao. Lyserg attacks Yoh and Yoh repels the attack with one
blow. Lyserg keeps attacking until Yoh destroys his shaman weapon.
Yoh then smacks him around to get him to listen to reason. Lyserg
joins the team and everybody is hunky dory.
Back in Japan,
Yoh's grandfather has called Anna to the Asakura shrine and unlocked
the Forbidden Temple, the Temple of Hao. Turns out, Hao is 1000 years
old and the ancestor of the Asakura's. Gasp, shock, reeling...
| My Thoughts: |
Dang! Hao is proving to be one wicked badass guy. 1000 years old, the
creator of the Asakura clan line AND a Patch? I'm looking forward to
hearing about how he was defeated 500 years ago.
Horohoro is such a hot head. Attacking Lyserg with no real reason, he
definitely earned his beating. Of course, Lyserg isn't much better,
acting so high and mighty. Good beatings for everyone and then
they're all friends. Yep, just another day in the Shonen Manga
Lifestyle!
Lilirara's death wasn't shown, so either she was killed by Hao or he
somehow subsumed her and she'll come back in a later volume as a bad
guy. She did do her part to provide Our Gang with a clue of where to
start finding the Patch.
Obviously a lot of things are going on behind the scenes with the
Patch and I for one am looking forward to them getting their asses
handed to them for not dealing with Hao all those years ago. Exiling
someone for crimes only works if you don't care about the rest of the
world. There is only one way to deal with such evil. Death. They
should have chopped his head off 500 years ago. Of course, if they
did, we wouldn't have a story, right? Blasted Manga-ka!
At this point in the game, I'm pretty satisfied with how this manga
is going. By this point with the Oh My Goddess manga I was just about
ready to throw in the towel. I was kind of afraid I'd repeat that
here but thankfully, I'm even more ready to keep going than I was
after the first volume. Onward and upwards!
★★★☆½
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