| It’s your turn to shine! After Volume 7 underused criminality, Volume 8 focuses on Yor as she takes on the task of being a bodyguard for a runaway woman and her baby. The only gain? You are better suited for assassination than guard duty. Anya and Loid are also on the cruise ship she is building. Yes, this boat will not be smooth sailing…
is one of the most perfect combinations of stupid and sweet, and this amount is not exception. Focusing on Yor does take us a little less Anya, but what we get is still great, especially since she knows exactly what Yor is doing and why Loid can’t find it. Meanwhile, Loid is really bad at relaxing, and he spends most of his time worrying that he’s not good enough for Anya, which frankly makes him one of the best dads in the comics. But most importantly, putting Yor in the spotlight means we’re finally really getting into her mind as she tries to figure out why she’s still working in this dangerous field, and what Loid and Anya are to her. cover story? Or her real family? While we may have an easy answer for her, she certainly doesn’t, which really drives the book.
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The reason for her assignment is relatively simple: the daughter of a recent crime family…let’s call it “restructuring” needs Leaving Berlin. The agency where Joel worked was responsible for her escape, and Joel was recruited as a bodyguard. Not explicitly stated, but partly because she was a woman with children, as was the lady she was escorting. As far as Loid knows, she’s just on a special work trip, and the fact that Anya has won two lottery tickets on the same cruise ship is purely coincidental. Of course, in fact, Loid’s manager told him that he was strictly required to rest and relax. It really says a lot about how Loid and his boss don’t know enough about kids that they both think traveling with kids can be called “relaxing”; my parents for some reason “travel” (with me and my sisters) and “vacation” (without us). |
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The Loid and Anya sections of this volume are very similar to the Yor sections in the previous books – shorter, more Not in depth. Mostly they were about Anya trying to figure out what Joel was doing and then forgetting and just having fun while Lorde was bugging his way, reminding himself to “see, analyze and act” about every 20 seconds , and he ended up in a truly terrifying “fun and optimistic dad” garb. This actually fits perfectly with Yor’s main emotional dilemma in the book: When she discusses things with her boss, the woman (pseudonym “Shaty”) mentions that Loid and Anya are just Yor’s cover story, not her real family . That’s not good for Yor, and as the book goes on, we see it rob her more and more, especially as she sees Shaty taking care of her own biological children. Both Loid and Yor may not know what really brought them together, but it’s increasingly clear that the family they’ve created is very real, and Yor isn’t the only one worried about what she’ll do if she doesn’t have her anymore It; Loid was also worried about what would happen if he had to drop Anya in the same volume. Since we’ve only seen Anya fret over the breakup of her new family before, it’s really reassuring to see Loid and Yor equally worried, it’s Yor’s firm realization of why she was assassinated, and why she Can’t let go of what makes her truly incorporate herself in this book. |
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Unsurprisingly, this book has the highest number of corpses of any previous volume, although blood remains scarce . Yor is such a bad fighter that her foes just complete the comic’s typical self-introduction before they die on the ground, and while this is different from the spy-based (or Anya-based) hijinks in previous books, this is to keep it fresh A great way to feel. There’s still plenty of humor in art and writing, like Furseal Grey, the hideous alias of Shady’s fake husband, and some ominous innuendo to Titanic in the ship design. Also, tribute to the translator of this book, Kathy Lowe 200. Anya’s baubles (eg, mistaking “sets” for “sweet”) are perfect and manage to be fun and authentic without being fancy. It’s harder than you might think, and Loe deserves credit for not only making it work, but also enhancing the storyline with an excellent translation. Anya mistook “flog” for “frog,” giving us one of her best doom and gloom fantasies in the series to date.
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What else is there to say, but it’s still excellent? With Joel finally having her day in the sun, it looks like this will continue into volume 9, and the two adults of the Forger family finally realize they don’t want this to be just a cover story for a mission, which is still One of the best juvenile300 series is currently in translation. You really don’t want to miss it.
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