by Hiroaki Samura, 176 pages Rin doesn't want to perpetuate the cycle of hatred and revenge, but neither can she just walk away from one of the men directly responsible for her tragic past. But her need for some kind of closure may only make her own situation more precarious, as he now has something he wants to protect, too, and will do whatever he must in order to preserve it.
History threatens to repeat itself in more ways than one. Credit must go to Rin for trying to look ahead as well as behind, and then to Manji for seeing the only path open to them with any chance of achieving her wish. This is a painful, powerful volume as we relive the horrors of two years ago through Rin's traumatized memories and watch the present unravel and threaten to cast the past's long shadow into the future. Throughout, Samura's action is kinetic, his perspectives surprising, and his figures appealingly believable whatever the panel point-of-view (the man clearly knows his anatomy well).
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