Andre’s Reviews > Ronin Island #1 > Status Update

I did a sneak peek into the next two issues and these are just zombie stories in Japan, some Korean and chinese things strewn in but that is it. It is just as uncreative and shallow as Pak's other stories in "Asia". Some stated this is for fans of the Last Airbender, but this wishes it were that creative. Pak just copied and pasted from better sources here and could do nothing with it. As always.

What are "Byonin?" And that last page with the assault... yeah might look "cool", except that they cannot keep that up as they are at the beach and need to get on a boat to get to the farmers and they would probably not be able to reach them in time to save anyone.

Wait, those fields were on the mainland? I thought this island was somewhere deep in the sea and that earlier Kenichi was saying how much water there was by referring to the mainland. And what mainland? "China"? And now there are "Oni" attacking the farmers there. And wait, the mainland was still quite far away, so how could the farmers see the samurai pointing and how can the islanders see the monsters?

A toddler? He looks the same age as Ito, so how can Ito have been at a war but not this general? That makes no sense. And now there was some poison in the Great Wind? Please, don't let it be "white" people this time.

The Great Wind was supposed to have been 31 years ago, if Ito was there at the battle he would be at least in his mid 40s by now. He looks much younger. Also, what they speak of samurai here sounds rather like the romanticized version from nationalistic japanese. Typical for Pak, to be honest.
And he calls this series ronin island because these are masterless rebells... ronin are masterless samurai!!!!

"Shogun"... Japan again... why is this so japanese centric? The rulers, the buildings, the clothes, the samurai, the hair styles, almost everything distinct points towards japan. And full samurai armor on the boss on the big attacking ship as well. veeerrrrryyyyy creative. I am really missing the alleged chinese and korean elements from this.

through kenichi they carry on the best traditions of the samurai and lost japan? Of course... when is this great wind supposed to have come? Because Japan was already in Meiji in the 1870s. And why is Hana an "orphan from Korea"? When did they come to this island? Plus, back then I think they would have said "Joseon". And why is japan the great past and "korea" the best of the new world (embodied by a dirty orphan)

Screw the helmet's size, why did that idiotic boy throw on a full samurai armor if his going to have a race with Hana? And this village looks to be in pretty damn good shape for being made by a few survivors. They look expertly built, with stone houses... wait, is that just my ignorance showing or do they all look japanese? Maybe they are Korean, but they look way to high class.

Why is she Hana the korean girl? shouldn't there be other Koreans here? At least the description suggested this.

That is the island? That thing is so small, how can it even sustain that village? And how did those people from China, Japan and Korea all ended up here anyway? He seems to have picked this because... well no idea. Why would the Koreans and Japanese sail south to some island instead of going north or to the phillipines?