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Daikaiju Yuki #3
Yuki vs. Fleshworld
A GALAXY UNDER SIEGE.
Yuki Tsubaki and the Pantheon Colossi are about to stumble upon one of the universe's greatest horrors. It's laid waste to solar systems, devoured civilizations, and it's waging a devastating war with the Pantheon's deadliest adversaries. Enemies all around, Yuki must choose a side for the sake of survival, and decide whether she can remain who she is in an unforgiving universe.
Yuki vs. Fleshworld is the continuation of Raffael Coronelli's Daikaiju Yuki series, delivering its signature reader-pleasing blend of intense action, thrilling drama, and a world-shattering heroine in the biggest kaiju adventure yet. With dynamic illustrations by Godzilla and Tsuburaya Productions artist Matt Frank the Pantheon Colossi are back with a vengeance.
Yuki Tsubaki and the Pantheon Colossi are about to stumble upon one of the universe's greatest horrors. It's laid waste to solar systems, devoured civilizations, and it's waging a devastating war with the Pantheon's deadliest adversaries. Enemies all around, Yuki must choose a side for the sake of survival, and decide whether she can remain who she is in an unforgiving universe.
Yuki vs. Fleshworld is the continuation of Raffael Coronelli's Daikaiju Yuki series, delivering its signature reader-pleasing blend of intense action, thrilling drama, and a world-shattering heroine in the biggest kaiju adventure yet. With dynamic illustrations by Godzilla and Tsuburaya Productions artist Matt Frank the Pantheon Colossi are back with a vengeance.
213 pages, Paperback
Published January 24, 2019
About the author
Raffael Coronelli
26 books15 followersRaffael Coronelli is a Chicago-based world adventurer and writer. His works include the How to Have an Adventure in… travel book series, several novels, and essays for Anime News Network and blu-ray releases from Arrow Video.
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February 23, 2019
Yuki vs. Fleshworld, where to begin? The Daikaiju Yuki franchise has always been an interesting beast. (Ha…puns) From what could be a typical post apocalyptic setting we were treated to a mythological conglomeration which blended fantasy, science fiction, and the particulars of Kaiju-eiga into a rip-roaring adventure. That’s the key thing here, the Pantheon Colossi books are almost always about ramping up the stakes and fun. It never grows tiring, it all makes sense, and the binding ties here are always the characters interactions with eachother and Yuki Tsubaki’s growth as a person.
Fleshworld rivals the original book in my favor. Both are explicitly about bursting open a new world and exploring it completely. Y2K is as strong as anything but it feels as though it was more a chrysalis from which something COSMIC and MASSIVE could be born. One of the things I love about each of these subsequent entries is that Coronelli takes pieces scattered amongst the larger narrative and dissects them and lays bare all of their intricacies for the reader to explore and enjoy.
The most compelling element here in Yuki’s introspection and her being given a doppelganger of sorts in Admiral Yamanra. THE most successful human villain in all of these books. Yamanra exists as a dark future for Yuki. She matches her in boldness both sexually and in terms of strategy. She commands legions and is as fierce a warrior as Yuki. Yet she lacks, and it’s through these encounters that Yuki understands what she must never become and what it is that makes herself the character we want to read.
Flesh World is a key element in a way that isn’t quite what you’d expect going in for monster action. The whole concept of Kaiju and Dreadnoughts has been a question of equilibrium and balance with planets and their source of mana energy. What happens when the planet is a monster in and of itself? How do you relate to that idea? How do you fight it? Is there something more to be said?
The sheer variety of creatures is also an added bonus simply because the mashups of concepts and animals are all so eclectic and reach near Yokai-levels of peculiarity (Looking at you Mantis-Walrus and Kick Ball alien.) If this is the end, then it feels that Yuki has undergone an entire arc and become as mythic a hero as the Pantheon was before all of this started. Yet there are clear hints at greater adventures still and with a universe like this, it’s impossible to know what weirdness stirs in the dark. We do know that when Coronelli unveils it, it’ll be surprising in the best way!
Fleshworld rivals the original book in my favor. Both are explicitly about bursting open a new world and exploring it completely. Y2K is as strong as anything but it feels as though it was more a chrysalis from which something COSMIC and MASSIVE could be born. One of the things I love about each of these subsequent entries is that Coronelli takes pieces scattered amongst the larger narrative and dissects them and lays bare all of their intricacies for the reader to explore and enjoy.
The most compelling element here in Yuki’s introspection and her being given a doppelganger of sorts in Admiral Yamanra. THE most successful human villain in all of these books. Yamanra exists as a dark future for Yuki. She matches her in boldness both sexually and in terms of strategy. She commands legions and is as fierce a warrior as Yuki. Yet she lacks, and it’s through these encounters that Yuki understands what she must never become and what it is that makes herself the character we want to read.
Flesh World is a key element in a way that isn’t quite what you’d expect going in for monster action. The whole concept of Kaiju and Dreadnoughts has been a question of equilibrium and balance with planets and their source of mana energy. What happens when the planet is a monster in and of itself? How do you relate to that idea? How do you fight it? Is there something more to be said?
The sheer variety of creatures is also an added bonus simply because the mashups of concepts and animals are all so eclectic and reach near Yokai-levels of peculiarity (Looking at you Mantis-Walrus and Kick Ball alien.) If this is the end, then it feels that Yuki has undergone an entire arc and become as mythic a hero as the Pantheon was before all of this started. Yet there are clear hints at greater adventures still and with a universe like this, it’s impossible to know what weirdness stirs in the dark. We do know that when Coronelli unveils it, it’ll be surprising in the best way!
September 19, 2021
The ending of the Daikaiju Yuki has a lot of great moments to it and escalates the battle even higher than the previous two novels. Taking off to space, the Pantheon finds themselves trying to take down the Dreadnaughts but finds a threat even more dangerous than the Dreadnaughts. Watching the characters grow since their first introduction was the best part of the book. The only disadvantage to the series comes from all the different Dreadnaughts that are introduced only to be killed off in combat. Still a phenomenal series and I highly recommend it.
July 6, 2020
This one feels kind of rushed out to me. It's also a bit extreme into the goofy side plot-wise when compared with the extreme uptick in gory violence. I do get that this is probably just coming more in line with the sillier kaiju franchises like Ultraman (or maybe it's derivatives, I haven't seen much of those series at all) but I don't feel like it works super great in novella format.
I want to caveat the star rating to say it's probably a bit bellow average. The way the leader of the antagonists deals with the protagonist... well, I get what the author was going for, but the idea that Yuki's any kind of strategic mastermind feels really unearned.
I want to caveat the star rating to say it's probably a bit bellow average. The way the leader of the antagonists deals with the protagonist... well, I get what the author was going for, but the idea that Yuki's any kind of strategic mastermind feels really unearned.
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