TWIN STAR EXORCISTS, VOL. 17
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
MANGAKA: Yoshiaki Sukeno
TRANSLATION: Tetsuichiro Miyaki
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Bryant Turnage
LETTERS: Stephen Dutro
EDITOR: Annette Roman
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0949-6; paperback (February 202); Rated “T” for “Teen”
200pp, B&W, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN, £6.99 U.K.
Sōsei no Onmyōji is a shonen manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiaki Sukeno. The manga has been serialized in the Japanese manga magazine, Jump Square, since October 2013. VIZ Media is publishing an English-language edition of the manga as a series of paperback graphic novels, entitled Twin Star Exorcists. VIZ released the series first under its “Shonen Jump Advanced” imprint, and then, under its “Shonen Jump” imprint, beginning July 2015.
Twin Star Exorcists focuses on Rokuro Enmado. He did not want to be an exorcist, but he met a mysterious girl named Benio Adashino. This 14-year-old was serious about being an exorcist, and she wanted to fight the monstrous creatures called Kegare. Because their destinies are intertwined, Rokuro and Benio are called the “Twin Star Exorcists.” They are fated to marry... and to conceive the “Prophesied Child.”
As Twin Star Exorcists, Vol. 17 (Chapters 61 to 64) opens, the “Yuto Punitive Expedition” into Magano continues... going badly. Rokuro has led his Enmado family into battle against the vicious “Basara,” Hijirimaru. Now, Arima Tsuchimado, the chief exorcist of the Associated Exorcists, attempts to stop two powerful Kegare from entering the human world. But can he be in several places at one time once he has to rescue Rokuro and company? And just what were the Kegare really plotting when they struck out at the expeditionary force?
[This volume includes bonus drawings.]
THE LOWDOWN: The Twin Star Exorcists manga continues to deliver on this really intense current story arc. This series is in a constant state of flux … until it focuses in on a singular moment in time, which is what it is doing now.
Twin Star Exorcists Graphic Novel Volume 17 is a scary read. Creator Yoshiaki Sukeno has practically not only put the series' leads in mortal danger, but he has also put the entire good-guy paradigm at risk of annihilation. For long time readers, this current arc is an excellent payoff for sticking with the series. Actually, it is easy to keep reading Twin Star Exorcist because it is so good.
Tetsuichiro Miyaki's translation and Bryant Turnage's English-language adaptation are yeoman's work because of all the spell-casting featured in these chapters. Kudos to Stephen Dutro for lettering those many, many spells in the perfectly-sized word balloons.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of action-fantasy, shonen manga will want to try the “Shonen Jump” manga, Twin Star Exorcists.
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9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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