Today we come back to a title released at the beginning of the year by Komikku, the return of Yusuke Ochiai with the one-shot Moon Shadow!
Moon Shadow (Tsukikage)
Author : Yusuke Ochiai
Seller : Komikku (Shonen Gahosha in Japan)
Release date : 28/01/2016
Number of volumes : one-shot
Price : 7,90 €
Synopsis :
"Despise the forces of evil, without ever forgiving, from the depths of your being!"
I am Hikari Mizuno, an ordinary housewife.All I want is to live peacefully.Yet I am a former female sniper who has traveled the world.My code name: Moon Shadow.
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Yusuke Ochiai is one of the very first authors of Komikku Publishing. He had signed a triptych called the infernal island published in France in 2012. Particularly comfortable in the dark style, he offered us with Moon Shadow a much funnier manga.
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Do not be fooled by this cover, Moon Shadow is indeed a humorous title. Newly converted as a housewife, Hikari Mizuno drags a dark past behind her. Indeed, a few years earlier, she was known in the community as a sniper answering to the code name Moon Shadow. Although she tries to live her daily life peacefully alongside her husband, some people around her remain execrable. And it is in these situations that the proverb "chase the natural, it comes back to gallop" takes on its full meaning. Hikari gives way to his alter ego who will be responsible for giving a good lesson to those who have sought it. If the smile comes easily to you, we will not forget to emphasize the social criticism side that Yusuke Ochiai deals with: moral harassment, prostitution or fraud, in short the type of fact of society that reminds us that everything is not rosy in Japan.
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Without spreading out too much on a work too long, Yusuke Ochiai proves that he knows how to vary genres. Although his style remains dark, he knows how to adapt his scenario, so that it sticks to his serious line. With Moon Shadow, he serves us a title that combines humor and social criticism in a more than pleasant one-shot.
I leave you here an excerpt of the title!
