A review by mossyforest
Wayward Deluxe Book 1 by John Rauch, Steven Cummings, Jim Zub, Tamra Bonvillain
2.0
This one is about a girl who is half Irish, half Japanese who goes to live with her mother in Japan. Only when she gets there strange supernatural things start happening to her.
I really liked the start of this book, Rori is an interesting character and I wanted to read about her and her relationship with her mother and how she would adjust to moving to Japan and starting school there. However, all that really interesting character depth got quickly sidelined for the supernatural stuff. I didn't want those things to be the main focus but they were definitely hinted at and I thought the writer was going to explore them but then they were just forgotten.
The supernatural/mythical stuff was kind of cool but again. not enough time was spent with the characters for me and there was a lot of smashing up monsters. I felt like there wasn't much of a plot and so I never really felt much of a connection to it and probably would have put it down after the first volume if i didn't have this bind up.
The art work is very good and showed the action very clearly. It was probably what I enjoyed most about this book.
I think if you are interested in reading a story set in Japan dealing with Japanese themes and myth which isn't Manga give it a go and if you know that you like this series this volume does have a lot of extra material. Not just art, but information about the making of the book and the culture that inspired it. But overall it just wasn't for me.
I really liked the start of this book, Rori is an interesting character and I wanted to read about her and her relationship with her mother and how she would adjust to moving to Japan and starting school there. However, all that really interesting character depth got quickly sidelined for the supernatural stuff. I didn't want those things to be the main focus but they were definitely hinted at and I thought the writer was going to explore them but then they were just forgotten.
The supernatural/mythical stuff was kind of cool but again. not enough time was spent with the characters for me and there was a lot of smashing up monsters. I felt like there wasn't much of a plot and so I never really felt much of a connection to it and probably would have put it down after the first volume if i didn't have this bind up.
The art work is very good and showed the action very clearly. It was probably what I enjoyed most about this book.
I think if you are interested in reading a story set in Japan dealing with Japanese themes and myth which isn't Manga give it a go and if you know that you like this series this volume does have a lot of extra material. Not just art, but information about the making of the book and the culture that inspired it. But overall it just wasn't for me.