Saturday, 29 June 2013

Shaman King Volume 5 The Abominable Dr. Faust


Art and Written by Hiroyuki Takei
Chapter 36 to 44
Price $5.96

This volume has the coolest creepiest character so far. This volume starts off where the last one ended. Horohoro and Yoh face off.  Yoh and Horohoro have the same amount of mana that is why the Great Spirit put this match together. As the fight goes on Horohoro uses all of his mana to create an avalanche. Yoh chose to get hit by the avalanche. Then carve his way out of the snow. Yoh still had a lot of mana and Horohoro had nothing left. Yoh used a attack and scared Horohoro to won the fight.

I like this fight, Horohoro has an awesome power. Its ice and snow what’s not to like? After the fight, Ryu and his gang has a party for Yoh First win and Horohoro was there too, we learned that Horohoro is pretty good guy and very goofy. We also meet Pirka, Horohoro’s sister and she is just like Anna. She takes Horohoro away to train.

We learn about Yoh next opponent. Faust the 8, they spend a whole chapter just building up this character. Silva heard that, this guy kill his last opponent and Silva take the time to talk to Anna about Forfeiting Yoh’s next fight, because in the rules you only need to win 2 out 3 matches to go to the next round. Anna believe in Yoh so she said let him fight.

During this chat, Yoh and manta are waiting for the next opponent and this where they meet Faust 8.  Right off the bat Amidamaru had bad vibes about him. This is where the fight begins. Faust is a Necromancer, he can use skeleton and he uses an army of skeleton to slow Yoh down, but that is not it. He takes Manta and start cutting him up. This is where Yoh loses control, and goes on a rampage to get to Manta. Yoh uses also all of the mana to get to manta, but can’t get through this army of skeleton. Each time he knocks a few down Faust puts them back together. Anna shows up. Anna tells about why Yoh cares so much about Manta, and why he was so in rages. Yoh never really had many friends growing up and most people just called him a Devil kid, because of his Shaman abilties. until he met Manta. The volumes ends with Yoh having a little bit of mana left and Faust is using his over soul Eliza. Yoh is determined to beat Faust, and as everyone is watching.

This is my favorite by far, and I hope we get more of Faust in the next few volumes because I think his design, abilities and he is a pretty interesting character. Like Eliza skull has a hole in it, could it be a bullet hole? Did Faust kill her? I also found a mistake is this volume, chapter 41 you see Yoh take off his sweater to wrap around manta, but in the next two pages he has his sweater back on and then off again.

Link to the mistake starts on page 10 and goes to page 13 http://mangafox.me/manga/shaman_king/v05/c041/10.html

Here is the Volume you can see Horohoro on the back with his spirit.



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We will see who wins in the next volume.

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