Still fun, still full of stock Tezuka characters. The story is full of death and demons and crazy people. The drawings are amazing, and his character's hairdos are great. Reading backwards is good for your brain the book says, so hopefully I'm getting smarter. I think i've just about got the hang of it, but every once in awhile I feel like I've read the frames in the wrong order and that there is some logic I am not grasping.

This is good! There's much more depth and development to these characters, something that was missing in Ayako. It might have to do with there only being two main characters rather than many small characters like in Ayako. I'm rooting for these characters, though. They're likable and relatable and sweet and not sweet and they make mistakes and they're genuine. Ayako characters were all completely unlikable, which doesn't always mean that the gn is just "not good," but Ayako wasn't good (Of course, in my opinion. I've read few reviews praising it and they might be right and it might be a smart and praise-worthy gn but I simply didn't like it). Also, I like this book's concept: a man abandoned as a child pairs up with a boy who has been orphaned and now they're fighting demons together searching for H's bodyparts while learning how to become better people with a higher purpose in life. The latter might sound cliché but I think the execution is done well and so Tezuka can get away with it. ALSO, the cartoon style is growing on me. The dialogue and the medium really complemented each other in this volume, more so than the first volume.