[Manga] Bloody Kiss Vol. #2 Review

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Review by Matthew Warner

Mania Grade: B

In Summary:
Much to my surprise, volume 2 of this series did in fact maintain the pace of increasing quality of the first, and as such creates a fairly interesting story. While things still remain a little generic, characters start to gain a little depth as the silly plot points (Kiyo’s “motivation” comes to mind) are dropped completely. The introduction of Sou finally gives us a real threat outside of the nameless generic “villains” of the first volume, which helps to move things in a much more interesting direction. And most importantly, the writing has improved significantly, allowing for a number of moments that are legitimately humorous (Kuroboshi’s “sweeeet” reaction in particular was nice) as opposed to the humorously bad writing of previous chapters, and a few legitimately touching moments even show up. Sadly, when things are finally starts to turn into something readable, the story wraps up and everything is over.