A review by pocketsable
In/Spectre 2, by Kyo Shirodaira
2.0
This volume ended up following Saki and Kotoko and the story of "Steel Lady Nanase", a monsterous ghost which doesn't follow any sort of rules of either Ghosts nor Monsters.
There was a lot of stuff with just Saki or Saki and Kotoko. Them talking about the Steel Lady or who they believe the ghost to be, them talking about Kuro's past and why Saki and him broke up... It feels like Saki is the main character, despite the cover of the volume since both main characters take a back seat in this volume. Kuro was barely in this volume at all. And overall, nothing really important happened. Kind of disappointed. I was hoping for some sort of direction or point but it just felt like this was filler with them repeating the same information over and nothing really progressing. Except maybe Kuro and Kotoko's "relationship" which was only mentioned randomly and can best be described as "Kotoko holding Kuro hostage". The timeskip did nothing to convince me why these two are in a relationship at all or even if they actually are or if that's just Kotoko's imagination.
There was a lot of stuff with just Saki or Saki and Kotoko. Them talking about the Steel Lady or who they believe the ghost to be, them talking about Kuro's past and why Saki and him broke up... It feels like Saki is the main character, despite the cover of the volume since both main characters take a back seat in this volume. Kuro was barely in this volume at all. And overall, nothing really important happened. Kind of disappointed. I was hoping for some sort of direction or point but it just felt like this was filler with them repeating the same information over and nothing really progressing. Except maybe Kuro and Kotoko's "relationship" which was only mentioned randomly and can best be described as "Kotoko holding Kuro hostage". The timeskip did nothing to convince me why these two are in a relationship at all or even if they actually are or if that's just Kotoko's imagination.