Customer Reviews

Evil's Return, Vol. 1

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When I finished reading this book, I had to stop and think about what I just read. Not because the book was confusing, but because there was hardly any talking. From the dialoge that was said you or at least I got that feeling that something important is about to happen. The book just cuts off in the end with out explaining what just took place the precending pages. If you want to find out what happen I would suggest you pick up volumes 1 and 2 at the same time, but since 2 has not come out as of today 8-2-04) you might have to wait awhile. The art work is great. And yes you well be looking a a half naked female most the time.

I'm surprised at the negative comments on this manga. It's not that bad, just different. I have been reading manga for a while now and I think that if you are new to reading manga, "Evil's Return" shouldn't be one of your firsts.

Here's why: There isn't much dialogue compared to others and that because the manga relies on the beautiful art and your imagination. The art is really good and has a lot of feeling and the feeling of the art explains more than words.

Secondly, this is a rather mature book.... the storyline is anyway. There isn't any pure nudity, just scantily clad girls (and rather busty for their age) and one too many panty shots. But this is nothing new, you get the same thing in any shojou/magical girl manga.

The manga also revolves around the concept of "good vs. evil" or heaven and hell and this may upset someone who are very religious. You find the same thing in other anime/manga: the author/artist isn't exactly a Christian but their story is based on Christian themes.... there is bound to be some misunderstandings.

To sum things up in a nutshell, the art is excellent and so good that dialogue is not need to explain a certain scene because the art does so. And finally this is a mature manga with mature scenes and characters (16 and up).

I recommend this manga to anyone who is open-minded and is possibly an anime/manga fan. Any anime fan knows that there is more to just "Reading" manga and I feel that some titles are for the veterans. "Evil's Return" is one of them. So far there are only 3 volumes and I've enjoyed the first one enough to buy the others.

Jong-Kyu Lee, Evil's Return, vol. 1 (Tokyopop, 2001)

This one turned out to be quite a ride; a great deal more than I expected. Probably the goriest manga I've run across since Reiko the Zombie Shop, but it looks like there's going to be deeper characters and a stronger storyline here than we got there. What we know so far: a high school girl has been chosen to be the vessel for the coming of some sort of evil being into our world (no idea what yet), and that the choosing disturbed the forces so much that a lot of major world religions noticed. A monk has been dispatched to keep her safe, while the school bad boy's fallen for her. So, yeah, mostly setup, but it's certainly likable setup, and you can't go wrong with too much mayhem. Looking forward to the next few books in the series. *** ½

This manga is so ultimately bad that I had a hard time deciding whether it or Battle Vixens was worse.

But Evil's Return definitley takes the Most-Pathetic-and-Stupidly-laughoutloud-story-I-have-ever-heard award.

When Yumi gets her period (all over the place) it signals to all the demons out there that she's ripe for impregnation so they come to track her down and PLANT THE SEED OF SATAN IN HER WOMB! Geez, no matter HOW many times I say or write that, I still crack up laughing. I am completely at a loss as to how this even got published. I'm guessing it was only licensed as Tokyopop wanted to license as much korean titles as possible.

It's not just the story that is woefully bad, it's also very poorly written and half the time makes no sense. Without the cover art, the reader probably couldnt even register who was the main character. I only know that Yumi is because she's ON the cover. Apart from that, all I know about her is that she's a empty husk with no personality or character whatsoever. On top of that, the whole book took me ten or less minutes to read. Considering most manga takes me around 40 minutes to an hour to get through, that's really pathetic. This is due to the fact that even though the page count is the same of any other manga, the text is limited, there are minimum panels on each page and there is frequent need to take up whole pages with pointless full body shots. Simply a technique to heighten the page count.

The only reason I read Evil's Return was that I had heard how hilariously bad it was and just HAD to see how it was.

Do not buy this. If you feel the urge to see just how bad it is, read it in a bookstore or library if you get the chance.

You can really tell how bad a manga is when it's laugh-out-loud hilarious...when the humour isnt intentional.

Evil's return is really awesome and I'm 11 so you can't use age on this anymore cause even though it lacks words the artwork is awesome I agree with the person at the top if you new to manga you probably shouldn't get this book cause you need a strong imagination and if you're a beginner you probably don't know how to comprehend all this awesome work so of course your gonna say it sucked but if you could see the sweat, blood, and tears put into this you would see the story's soul and only then can you see how awesome this manga is (sorry I just got don't watching the whole first season of comic party) but trust me as you get more into manga then come back to this book you'll see that the more experience you have with manga the better it is(I've been reading manga for 3 whole years and watching anime for 5 so I know my stuff) so next time try to read up on your manga before you start throwing flames at them k?

Signed,

Your,

Bishojo Shoujo Sempi

I have just started to read manga, and Evils Return really dissapointed me. The artwork was good, but not a lot happend in the story. It was boring, there were to many pictures and not enough talking, and i don't like any of the characters. There was mild language and i found myself often looking at an almost naked girl. Don't waist your money on this manga. Although this is only my opinion, i'm a teen after all.