Seraphic Feather [Paperback]

Hiroyuki Utatane (Author), Yo Morimoto (Author)

Book Description

Series: Seraphic Feather | Publication Date: November 1, 2001

In the not-too-distant future, an intact alien starship has been discovered buried beneath the moons surface, a vessel with awesome technology somehow connected to three powerful 'Emblem Seeds' found on Earth. Sunao Oumi, a young man stuck on the moon and trying to work up the funds to return to Earth, takes an assignment to escort two visiting U.N. investigators and is drawn into a web of violence and intrigue as dark operatives try to purloin the Emblem Seeds the investigators have brought with them. But the investigators are more than they seem: Attim M-Zak, a beautiful and mysterious woman with deadly augmented abilities, and Kei, a starry-eyed dreamboat from Sunaos past...whose death brought Sunao to the moon in the first place!

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569715556
• ISBN-13: 978-1569715550
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,199,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Drawing, Unfathomable Plot, September 7, 2002

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Timothy Perper (Philadelphia PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seraphic Feather (Paperback)

Five stars for artwork, three for the plot. Actually, the plot isn't quite *that* unfathomable, but the strong point of Seraphic Leather isn't linear narrative. Basically it's an SF story about alien starships crashed on the moon with an awkward but loving telekinetic hero (Sunao), who rescues virginal and adorable Kei from an explosion in Luna City -- although he thought she had been killed in an accident years before. She used to be older than Sunao, too -- and that's only the first episode. After a while we meet the magnificently beautiful Attim M-Zak, a UN Special Investigator who is on the moon to find out what's with even more (!) mysterious doings concerning the Emblem Seeds. Various baddies like Rix Hayward wander in and get their butts kicked by Attim, and then we meet Number Four, an alien robo-thingie, but just wait -- it get's more complicated. If you're like me and enjoy over-the-top sci-fi adventure, you'll love the plot; otherwise, probably not. But the artwork! Utatane is one of the great masters of manga, and his drawings are breathtakingly beautiful -- not merely his women (Kei, Attim, Fawn), but also his page layout and design. Early on there is a marvelous drawing of the wrecked lunar station. If you buy it for the artwork alone, it'll be well worth it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Women . . . Not Much Else, January 17, 2002

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Daitokuji31 (Black Glass) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seraphic Feather (Paperback)

Not much really to say about this book, but that the artist Hiroyuki Utatane is very gifted in drawing beautiful women. The main female character of the series Attim M-Zak is an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, and the other main female character is as cute as a button. The book, however, lacks story. It seems to be yet another Sci Fi series with a bunch of busty scantily clad women and a bishonen main bad guy . . . with angel wings. The main plot seems to be so far a guy named Sunao went to the moon because a friend of his Kei, a different Kei apparently, was killed in a Lunar base explosion. He runs into the oter Kei who just happens to look like his deceased friend. Attim M-Zak is an United Nations agent sent to protect Kei because she has an Emblem Seed. We don't find out what these are in this book. the bishonen bad guy is after them though. Please excuse this disjointed review it is as disjointed as the book. I will continue reading it though it might get better. Hopefully anyway.

4.0 out of 5 stars I think we are missing some details here..., April 14, 2003

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Amber (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seraphic Feather (Paperback)

Now, I know that some things need to be kept secret until the end or it will spoil the story, but this is too much. I feel as though I have been dropped into the middle of the story. There is no background on any of the characters or the Emblem Seeds, or even the reason why people have moved to the moon in the first place! I would like to know how the characters know each other and exactly what is so special about the Emblem Seeds, but neither this volume nor the next contain that information.

Be warned--there is some nudity (not much) and gore (buckets full) so you might want to consider something else if you are not mature enough to handle this kind of stuff.