Inuyashiki goes from being mediocre back to boring again with this fourth volume. It’s the same with most superhero stories: every time the focus shifts to the good guy, things get really dull - it’s only entertaining once the hero and the villain are battling, or the focus is on the villain doing shady shit.
The book opens on the aftermath of the Yakuza dinner scene and gets resolved within a chapter - why wasn’t this included as the finale to the last book?!
Then we’re onto the murderous sociopath’s bestie, Ando, who decides he’s going to help Inuyashiki defeat his crazy friend Hiro by showing him how to use his bizarre robot powers. Which means most of the book is exposition and tedious lesson learning. And I wish Ando didn’t look so similar to Hiro - it’s just unnecessarily confusing for them to look alike!
But by far the worst part of the book is how Hiro is written, or re-written rather. In Volume 2 he got his powers and immediately murdered a random family in cold blood. Now his personality is radically different - he’s suddenly empathetic and caring! Wha… huh?! It doesn’t make any sense how someone can go from full-on sociopath back to being a semi-ordinary teenager - and there’s no explanation as to why or how! Totally unconvincing - such sloppy writing.
I guess it was kinda fun to see Inuyashiki figure out just how powerful he is and see the net closing in around Hiro towards the end. But there wasn’t much compelling in this fourth book and it’s basically killed what little interest I had in this series!
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