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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Lone Wolf and Cub, Omnibus 5 by Kazuo Koike
5.0
"Lone Wolf and Cub" has grown on me since I started reading it. I'm in no rush to hurry on through the stories, but I read a volume or two every now and again, and yesterday I woke up to warm, rainy weather thinking "Today is the perfect day to go out somewhere and read some stories about the samurai assassin and his kid."
So, well, five stars to the series for making itself memorable and capturing my imagination in a slow and unassuming manner.
First of all, I love the art by Goseki Kojima. I love how sometimes there's this huge, vague, beautiful landscape, more suggested than photographically drawn - and somewhere, tiny, yet capturing one's attention, you have the assassin and his son walking towards the next town, towards the next contract.
In this volume, you have a story or two forwarding the main plot, but the rest are mostly episodic, as was the case with previous volumes. I particularly like the stories about the son wandering off on his own, quiet and determined - he's a very curious character, innocent, but having seen too much, honorable, but not entirely aware of all the things going on in the world. It makes me wonder what will happen to him in the end.
So, well, five stars to the series for making itself memorable and capturing my imagination in a slow and unassuming manner.
First of all, I love the art by Goseki Kojima. I love how sometimes there's this huge, vague, beautiful landscape, more suggested than photographically drawn - and somewhere, tiny, yet capturing one's attention, you have the assassin and his son walking towards the next town, towards the next contract.
In this volume, you have a story or two forwarding the main plot, but the rest are mostly episodic, as was the case with previous volumes. I particularly like the stories about the son wandering off on his own, quiet and determined - he's a very curious character, innocent, but having seen too much, honorable, but not entirely aware of all the things going on in the world. It makes me wonder what will happen to him in the end.