General Shiba is another great character filled with personality, The strength of his ability to write these evil, yet charming characters is one element that helps establish Beelzebub.

The way Toriyama envisions demons as not necessarily evil creatures is something he consistently plays with, even down to Majin Buu who is technically not at all evil. While Pink feels like something out of Star Wars, like Tatooine, Sand Land adds much of the same demon flavored, wholesome charm that exists in another Toriyama manga, Cowa!. Sand Land is out now by Viz Media and is available at your local bookstore or anime/manga retailer.Ī fun little one-shot, similar to Toriyama's previous series 'Pink' which also has similar themes regarding a lack of water.

How many shonen could you say that about.įeel free to get at me if you want to know more about the manga or anything else. This is a recommendation and it's only a volume long. Overall it should be an 8, but this made up for 40+ volumes of Dragon Ball. I enjoyed this manga and I did run a mile after reading it. General Are's moves in the last few chapters made me happy and with a burst of energy. The General turns out to be not all that evil, but you'll find that out later. The scene where Thief comments on a picture that is Rao's 'good luck charm' made me think that the characters don't need -san or -kun added because it conveyed how close they are despite being human and devils. The colors don't even look like colors and rather something my little sister could do on Photoshop. The premise for Thief's design is pretty funny (A Santa Demon that steals?) I do have a complaint with the cover though. The art is above average and the tank is well drawn, despite the cartoony look. doesn't take long and a taste of Dragon Ball fights could have been used. The volume ends at 12 chapters, and I feel that one more chapter could have gotten me up to the last chapter. The big flaw that I found is the fact that it was rushed. The story is great for a quick one shot volume, despite the premise of 'The goverment tooks our waterz we nao rebel!' Like I just said that's the plot. Personally I think Akira Toriyama isn nothing special but this manga proved me wrong. Did you finish Dragon Ball and think, 'Holy crap Akira Toriyama is freakin' manga God I need more, something better!' Then this is it.

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