by Akimine Kamijyo, 415 pagesKyo and Kyoshiro's personal histories as individuals and as friends-turned-potential-enemies are finally revealed as are their motives for taking the paths they've chosen. One by one, everyone pulls together to support them and their shared purpose. But the only one who can face the desperate, bitter, seemingly-all-powerful Former Crimson King is Kyo--in his own body. But after so long apart from himself, will Kyo be able to maintain the new identity his soul has formed over the years, or will he fall back into the dark, voracious, unstoppable force of destruction that lies buried in his genes? Only with the love and support of his new family can he hope to prevail...or survive.
Despite yet another knock-down, drawn-out, not-over-nearly-as-soon-as-it-should-be fight, this final installment in the series still manages to land the emotional punches that made me read this far in the first place. I love these characters. I love how they all grow as individuals and as a family. And I love how you just know, no matter what they appear to do on the surface, that their hearts are all in the right place. With its themes of indomitable hope, self-sacrifice, and strength in loving numbers, SDK gets to the warm-fuzzy sucker in me no matter how much cheese or how many overwrought battles it throws in its way.
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