The absurdly simplistic good/bad power fantasy that is Inuyashiki continues in Volume 3. The murderous sociopath from the last book is nowhere to be seen as a new baddie is introduced: a giant Yakuza scumbag who abducts women, shoots them up with drugs and rapes them until they’re dead – honestly, the villains in this series are so irredeemably OTT evil, it’s almost funny!
Unstoppable cyborg old man who seems to be made of sentient guns vs the latest Big Bad – so Inuyashiki is still basically an R-rated kid’s show but it’s well put-together and entertaining in a trashy way! Inuyashiki goes all Batman: Year One as he takes on the assembled heads of the Yakuza, albeit in a much bloodier and more violent way than Batman ever did! Hiroya Oku’s art remains very slick and the visual of the frail old man battling dozens of gun-toting gangsters and a crazy huge nutjob was amusing.
Inuyashiki is about as complex as custard but who doesn’t enjoy a steaming bowl of that every now and again, eh?
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