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Title: Mt Osore le Voile
Series: Shaman King #19
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 210
Format: Digital Copy
Series: Shaman King #19
Author: Hiroyuki Takei
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 210
Format: Digital Copy
| Synopsis: |
Yoh gives up the
Shaman King fight to save Ren. The X-Laws begin to work on Ren to
save his life and we begin a flashback sequence about Yoh and Anna.
Things start out
with Yoh finding out the Asakura's have found a bride for him and the
introduction of Matamune, a clan spirit of a cat that had been
serving the Asakura's for a millennium. Yoh accidentally meets Anna
outside an inn and she tells him to die. Quite the auspicious start.
Then Yoh is attacked by a demon and once at the shrine, he is snubbed
by Anna and told by Matamune that Anna bears a curse.
Turns out Anna
creates demons whenever she goes outside and has no control over
them. Yoh meets her at a souvenir shop and another demon appears. He
grabs a sword to protect Anna and somehow she makes it disappear.
While this is going
on Matamune and Yoh's grandmother are talking and reveal Matamune was
a former spirit ally of the original Hao and then turned on Hao in
the previous Shaman Fight. This act of betrayal, while saving the
world, has haunted Matamune and kept him from crossing over. It is
revealed that Hao was an empath and that is why he turned bad. Anna
is an empath who can read minds and without help from Matamune and
the Asakura's she'll turn out as bad as Hao.
Yoh breaks the dam
of ice around Anna's heart with his heartfelt desire to be friends
and they watch a music program ringing in the new year. The first
steps along the path of their friendship have begun.
| My Thoughts: |
This had a lot of emotional content. Yoh placing the life of his
friend Ren before his desire to become Shaman King, even before
defeating Hao really showed us the readers what Yoh truly valued.
I was a little bit pissed off at the beginning when it went straight
to flashback land, but the story of how Yoh and Anna met and how they
became what they are today was very touching. Anna was a tragic
heroine destined to be consumed by her own ability and while Matamune
was brought on board to help train her, it took Yoh's true compassion
for her as a person to help her make the first step in breaking free.
She couldn't believe in herself until someone else showed her they
believed in her.
Now that Yoh has given up in the Shaman Fight I am REALLY interested
to see how Takei continues the storyline. I suspect shenanigans of
some sort will be pulled to get Yoh back in or something. This is a
fighting shonen manga after all so the battles can't be over.
★★★★☆
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