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Title: Trust No One
Series: Shaman King #16
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 200
Format: Digital Copy
Series: Shaman King #16
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 200
Format: Digital Copy
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Synopsis:
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Ren has an
encounter with Hao and Hao invites him to join his team. Ren attacks
Hao, who easily stops it and destroys the very weapon that Ren was
using, all without visible means or even an oversoul. The encounter
leaves Ren very shaken.
Yoh seeks out
Lyserg and lets him know that he holds no hard feelings against
Lyserg for joining the X-Laws. Apparently Lyserg broke curfew to see
Yoh and the other X-Laws catch him. Marco deals harshly with Lyserg
and prepares to pit himself against Yoh, until the Iron Maiden
intervenes, telling the X-Laws that Yoh is not a minion of Hao's. She
invites Yoh to join the X-Laws and he refuses. This sets off Marco
and Yoh has to threaten him just to leave.
We are introduced
to one new team, who we don't even see fight, as they finished their
match so quickly. Then things get interesting as one of Hao's group
is set to fight and it includes Hao himself. Opposing them is one of
the X-Law splinter groups, X-III. Hao sends his minions off and
X-III attacks him with their 3 angels. Hao kills one of them
immediately. X-III was sacrificial lambs, meant to find out about Hao
so the future X-Law teams could exploit that knowledge and defeat
Hao. Hao toys with the remaining X-III and kills them too, revealing
nothing but how incredibly powerful he is. After winning the fight,
Hao then resurrects the souls of the fallen X-III and feeds them to
his oversoul of Fire. Hao is evil.
Yoh reveals to his
team mates that Hao is an Asakura and that this fight has been going
on for a 1000 years. One of the Patch Officiants is also a
descendant of Hao and he has vowed to stop Hao. He get some secret
video and is seen by 2 other Patch officiants. Yoh reveals a
bombshell that Yoh isn't just an ancestor but is actually his twin
brother. Yoh's father revealed this all to him and now Yoh is telling
his team mates so they won't be blindsided later on in the Shaman
Fight.
It turns out that
Yoh was born with a twin, who Hao chose to reincarnate in. Yoh's
grandparents tried to stop this from happening, but with no success.
Now it is up to Yoh to stop Hao, impossible as that may seem.
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My
Thoughts:
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Well, I did NOT see that bombshell about Hao coming, not one tiny
bit. Thinking about it though, I'm not sure it actually changes
anything. Hao is still an evil son of a gun bent on world domination
and it is up to Yoh to stop him. The fights that Hao were in with
the X-III's really show just how evil he is. His soul is rotten to
the core.
There was a lot of talking going on in this volume and not much
fighting. Even the previous volume had more fighting. I'm here for
the fighting so I'm hoping things ramp up next volume, or I'm going
to be very disappointed.
★★★☆½
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