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A review by thisotherbookaccount
Blade of the Immortal Volume 4: On Silent Wings by Hiroaki Samura
3.0
Funnily enough, even though this volume is devoid of action (there are two 'fights', but one is super one-sided, and the other ends before it begins), I really only have one major complaint: Rin.
To preface my complaint, I want to say that later volumes may very well change my mind about Rin as a character. However, as it stands at volume four, Rin's weakness/helplessness is only half as infuriating as her indecision to proceed with her revenge plot. In book one, we learn that both her parents were murderer before her eyes, and she later spends two years training up just to seek revenge on those responsible. Throughout the first four volumes, however, Rin constantly goes back and forth as to whether she wants to proceed with her revenge plot. Maybe it has less to do with Rin as a character, but more to do with the way the writer has failed to express the internal conflict. It's just not very clear what Rin has in mind most of the time. She's a passive character that kind of reminds me of Sansa. Even when she is actively pursuing a goal, you never quite know what she is trying to do — and not in the mysterious way, either. More clueless and naive, really.
Other than that, I don't have major complaints. Volume 4 seems like yet another here's-another-bad-guy-to-fight plot. Let's hope subsequent volumes move away from this conceit.
To preface my complaint, I want to say that later volumes may very well change my mind about Rin as a character. However, as it stands at volume four, Rin's weakness/helplessness is only half as infuriating as her indecision to proceed with her revenge plot. In book one, we learn that both her parents were murderer before her eyes, and she later spends two years training up just to seek revenge on those responsible. Throughout the first four volumes, however, Rin constantly goes back and forth as to whether she wants to proceed with her revenge plot. Maybe it has less to do with Rin as a character, but more to do with the way the writer has failed to express the internal conflict. It's just not very clear what Rin has in mind most of the time. She's a passive character that kind of reminds me of Sansa. Even when she is actively pursuing a goal, you never quite know what she is trying to do — and not in the mysterious way, either. More clueless and naive, really.
Other than that, I don't have major complaints. Volume 4 seems like yet another here's-another-bad-guy-to-fight plot. Let's hope subsequent volumes move away from this conceit.