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A review by crookedtreehouse
Demon, Volume 3 by Jason Shiga
4.0
There's a scene in this volume of Shiga's disturbing immorality immortality play, when the protagonist is explaining to a child how awful the world is. It goes on for several pages without too much change in the art. It a long soliloquy about how age destroys the joy of youth. It's not a terribly original conceit, but when delivered by someone several hundred years old, who has been splitting his life between protecting his daughter and being as hedonistic as possible, often at the expense of others, is really effective.
The expansion of understanding how the demonology works in this book is also really fascinating. And the ending brought out a whole new level of Whatthefuckness, which is impressive, given that this series started with a guy repeatedly killing himself after the death of his family.
The only drawback was that the book jumps over three hundred years between the end of volume two and the middle of volume three, and yet the world looks exactly the same. It actually looks a bit late twentieth century. It didn't ruin the story or anything, it just briefly pulled me out of the narrative to think that the world would be so similar in 2400, given how the world has changed in the mere forty years I've been alive.
Everything else about this book is top-notch Shiga, and I can't wait to see how he concludes this series. (But I can wait. I'd rather read the books than check out the already completed webseries.)
The expansion of understanding how the demonology works in this book is also really fascinating. And the ending brought out a whole new level of Whatthefuckness, which is impressive, given that this series started with a guy repeatedly killing himself after the death of his family.
The only drawback was that the book jumps over three hundred years between the end of volume two and the middle of volume three, and yet the world looks exactly the same. It actually looks a bit late twentieth century. It didn't ruin the story or anything, it just briefly pulled me out of the narrative to think that the world would be so similar in 2400, given how the world has changed in the mere forty years I've been alive.
Everything else about this book is top-notch Shiga, and I can't wait to see how he concludes this series. (But I can wait. I'd rather read the books than check out the already completed webseries.)