Haruka has begun schooling again, nestled among Jesus's forces at Aitou Academy. The teaching staff should deter most groups from making a move against Haruka, but stronger organizations could still pose a threat no matter where she hides. Seven warriors of Galboa's most elite unit have already announced their intentions to seize Haruku by force. Jesus may be able to cut off the attackers before they enter the school, but not if one has already made it inside--the operative called "Invisible" seems to be just what his codename boasts...! It's unseen vs. unseeing as Mamoru takes on Galboa's intruders!
Hiroshi Takashige (たかしげ宙) is a Japanese manga artist best known in various manga communities in Japan and overseas for his work in Spriggan and later in Until Death Do Us Part.
That is such a movie pose or well, manga pose. Anyway, I don't know what else to say that I haven't already said about this awesome series. Have I said this is awesome yet, well it needs repeating. This series is awesome, action packed, interesting. Also that art style.
How to ruin a perfectly good manga/story: dump in a dozen new characters with no real introduction other than these are the good guys and those are the bad guys. In this case, the good guys are Asian and Caucasian and the bad guys are African (dark-skinned), ugh! We know who to root for but not why we should root for them. Even Mamoru and Haruka seem more vanilla in this volume and the art seems less inspired. Maybe nine volumes was the right place to stop.
I was kinda leery of this volume knowing the villains would be black guys, and Japan's conception of black people is heavily filtered through decades old American media. The fact that the splash page features a black guy with an afro and a gold tooth, decked out in bling and surrounded by bikini-clad white chicks ... oh my.
But thankfully even though Double-S's designs all seem to be based upon mid-'90s rap videos (guys in baggy shirts, cornrows, even an old guy who looks like a gray-haired version of Snoop Dogg), the characters themselves are well developed mercenaries with solid character development. They may, in fact, be the most formidable opponents to ever appear in this series, and the Snoop-looking fellow is a helluva lot more interesting mastermind than Wiseman was.
To top it off, this volume is basically 400 pages of action, and the arc's still just getting started. After the lull of the last few volumes, this is a nice step in the right direction again.