Review Detail

Basic plot summary:

It has been a couple years since Taki and Goh retired from their lives as "snatchers". Now a former client is forcing them back into the business.

Review (no major spoilers - not that there's really anything to spoil):

This review covers the first volume of the English-release of Yellow 2 by June. This volume—the first of a three part series—is only a chapter long. If you've read the first series then you already know the routine. Taki and Goh get handed their job. They look for clues. They find clues. They steal what they were hired to steal. That's the basics of it. This being only a chapter long there really isn't that much too it. We do get a few mentions of what some of the secondary characters are doing now. Besides that, there's very little else.

Honestly, this just feels like an epilogue chapter that could have been tacked on to the end of the original series. It should have been an epilogue chapter, in my opinion. However, it has been publish as its own separate series which changes how it is to be perceived. As a simple epilogue it's okay. As the start of a new series it falls flat. Maybe the other two releases will add something new to the tale, but for the most part this first volume seemed like every other "snatch story" we saw in the first series. Very disappointing.

Like I said, nothings changed. The basic plot is the same and so are the characters. There is about a five year difference between Yellow and Yellow 2. During that time Tateno's art style hasn't changed much (not that that's a bad thing). The drawings are still nice to look at. The volume does come with a pretty color insert...of the same picture found on the back of the volume... >_<

The original Yellow had its flaws, but I still enjoyed reading it. So far the sequel is a let down in the fact that it's suppose to be a sequel, yet doesn't bring anything new to the table. If you have read the original and really loved it, then you might like this one too. Beyond that I can't really recommend this to the casual reader. I hope the next volumes are more entertaining.