Part four contains everything you expect, great action scenes, nice monster designs, cool looking bad guys and childish dialogue but it also had a few surprises too. Like the introduction of two new characters, one of which is an inanimate object that can talk. There are some nice comedic moments and we get to see more about Banya's past which I really liked so all it all I thoroughly enjoyed it. However, I was rather unhappy to realise that this section of the story has been censored.
Like the last volume this one is pretty dark and once again the violence has been ramped up. With all the extra gore I started to notice some of it had been covered up with a white fog. It was as though someone had used the spraycan from ms paint to do it! It looked tacky, amateurish even, and basically I found it both annoying and distracting.
I don't know who did it, it could have been the author himself for all I know, but I just don't understand why now? Why start censoring an already violent series in volume four? Dark Horse have released some pretty risky manga and I own many of them, series like Berserk and MPD Psycho for instance. These extremely graphic books have been released uncensored so what happened here? I don't know, still it was a good book building up nicely for the final act.
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