meganbmoore | Togari Vol 7-8

Well, not the ending I was hoping for, but it’ll do. Knowing that the series was ending at Vol 8, it made me twitch when new plot elements were being introduced, but I suppose they can also be looked at as clarifying things, and I doubt the mangaka knew he only had a few chapters left when doing so. Though I wish some of the time spent on fights had been spent developing some of the new plot bits.

Ema is half-human! Who let Ami loose on the world! Ami was a nice guy who turned evil when his human girlfriend died! Sena’s father is the Minister of Affairs! Sena is the one who killed Itsuki’s father! There’s other trouble in the underworld!

I would so rather read the fall-out of all that than a lot of what’s in the more popular stuff.

I’m happy they didn’t tack any Itsuki/Tobei romance onto the end, though. The possibility has been lurking around, but I’m glad the series never went there. I could probably be convinced that Tobei has a crush on Itsuki (though I don’t think that’s how he sees her), but she’s only just upgraded him from “cranky stray cat” to “5-year-old brother.”