‘Kyoukai no Rinne’, ch. 1-13, by Rumiko Takahashi

When ‘Inuyasha’ finally ended not so long ago, I guess everybody heaved a sigh of relief. It had been fun in the beginning, and I had quickly fallen in love with the characters and the world, but then things started to drag, nothing new happened, character growth came to a screeching halt… I stopped reading the manga altogether after I bought a new volume, accidently skipping the previous volume – and didn’t notice.

Of course, these experiences colour my judgement of Rumiko Takahashi’s post-’Inuyasha’ series.

‘Kagijin’ ch. 1, by Yasuki Tanaka

So we meet again, Mr. Tanaka. I have not been kind on you in the past. I did not have a lot of nice things to say about ‘Jamais Vu’. The biggest problem seems to be that you tend towards the ordinary, the clichés, the been-there-done-that. ‘Jamais Vu’ started out with a bizarre and intriguing science-fiction idea, only to revert to “good humans VS. evil aliens” after just a few pages. It was the kind of story that Baka Ouji-sama would not stand for. (One of these days, I should review ‘Level E’…) And you gave the aliens a weak spot that only M. Night Shyamalan would consider a good idea.

Anyway! ‘Kagijin’ is based on a oneshot by the same name, and is Yasuki Tanaka’s second series in Weekly Jump after the shortlived ‘Hitomi no Catoblepas’.