Sei Kodo finds that life as a vampire has its ups and downs. Sure, he has faster reflexes and can almost fly, but he is forever searching for a new identity and place in the world, even as he is haunted by visions of Yui, the vampire who awakened him...
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wanna get ripped off? Buy this book.,
By Asphalt Jungle Guide "njsurfer" (Leading Edge of Nowhere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wanderer Volume 1: Full Moon (Paperback)
The Wanderer is by the same creator of 'Vampire Princess Miyu' and there's even a faint blink-and-miss-it reference to Miyu in this volume. While "Miyu" was/is a great series, this is a poor follow-up.
"The Wanderer" is a fitting title: the storyline wanders all over the place, something to do with an exclusive academy of fine arts, phantoms, suicidal teenagers, a pianist who can't actually play the piano but managed to bluff his way into the Academy, which is kind of like bluffing your way into Julliard. This is the first clue to the mental caliber of the cast of this story--and we're talking fifty-cent water pistol level here. There's a mysterious young man (not the vampire) who seems to have some weird, unexplained hold over the other students. There are the obligatory tough guys beating up a meek underclassman. There are fawning girls. There is a terrible attempt at rendering a Japanese Kansai accent into English by writing in a campy Texas-twang and using every cliched Southern expression ever mentioned. (This happens a lot when trying to emphasize particular dialects--it all goes over the top and ends up sounding slapstick-silly--and beatings and suicide attempts are not slapstick material.) The editors even felt the need to explain in a tiny footnote *why* certain characters were sounding like bad spoofs from the cutting room floor of a C-grade Western. It's entirely possible to write characters with Southern accents without making them sound like utter bubbleheads (something to be avoided with one's macho full-brawl-ahead male protagonist). Just reading actual written works in Southern settings, by Souther writers, would show how to do it! The dialogue is campy--which is sad, as it's meant to be emotional and intense, judging by the art. Even the suicide attempt by one of the students rings hollow. We're given next to no information about these characters, either visually or through dialogue or interaction with other characters. They're just plunked down on the page and we're supposed to care about them either because a) we recognize the author, and the Miyu series was pretty darn good, or b) we bought the book and after spending money on, we better find something we like. The main character's motivations are to find his lost love Yui (who is looking for Miyu), and drinking blood. He doesn't get very far with either through the entire book. Wait a sec, this is a pretty normal teenage boy: all he thinks about is food and sex! The book is bound backwards--not in the 'traditional manga fashion' but "flipped" to read left-to-right, even though it says it's to be read right to left. The publisher must've have a bad printing day, because a lot of the art, including the cover, looks blurred. Even the physical feel of the book is bad, too slick, the inside paper felt almost oily. *That* creeped me out more than anything in the story. The manga-ka was aiming for an atmosphere of quiet menace and mystery, but what came out was bad lukewarm vamp-Goth pulp. I don't care who or what Marie, the mysterious, ominous student, is. I don't care if Sei ever finds Yui. I don't care what the near-suicide does with his third shot at life. The book begins exactly where it ends (a slight pun there, considering the error in binding the book): nowhere. And I'm that much poorer for having spent money on this thing and lost about a half hour of my life reading, plus the time spent trying to figure out what the heck was going on. "Serial Experiments: Lain" makes more sense than this.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another of Narumi's Great Work,
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This review is from: The Wanderer Volume 1: Full Moon (Paperback)
First, The book was not correcty flipped as it is suppost to be in Japanese English manga. I dont know if all the copys are like that. Anyways, I love the story. It has to do with a young man seaching for Yui, the vampire who awakened him. I believe this is the middle part of the Vampire Yui series After Yui is awakened by Miyu. This story, to me, is another great work.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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WARNING! PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING!,
By They Call Me ...Yaoi-San (Cocoa Beach, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wanderer Volume 1: Full Moon (Paperback)
Ok.
First off, I need to say this is based on a review I read, not the book, because I have not read the book. Initially, I was intrested in this series because I like the art and story but I had never heard of it before and looked to see who had licensed it and saw an unfamiliar name. I opened a new window and went to the group's site but found that they had stopped doing what they did so i started a google search to see if the ENTIRE series was translated and not just the first two (or if that was all there was)and found a review site. I opened it and read it. As it turns out, the company who put the out did a more-than-fairly bad job at it and also only realesed 2 out of the total 3 volumes(Damn). The review said that book seemed like it was read right to left, but once you opened the "front" cover, you were confronted by the last page of the book - the first page turned out to be after the back cover and you then proceed to read american style. This was the review: [...] I'm just writing this to help prevent people from buying an unfinished series. ...yeah..OK. DeeXRyoFFRox Signed, A Die-Hard Anime/Manga Fan
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