MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 7 (ムルシエラゴ) by Yoshimura Kana is both vile and creative, which is impressive in it’s own way.
In between coming up with a new arc about psychopaths who kill the innocent in creative and repulsive ways (which, again, is kind of impressive….) we revisit some of our favorite psychopaths from previous arcs – notably Yukari, the assassin maid, one of the of the students from Virginal Rose, Ariana, now going by her given name, Sayaka, and Minako, the bomb-building schoolgirl with her formerly-popular classmate, now her personal slave, Furi.
Hinako really gets a chance to fly her freak flag in this volume. If, for even a second, you thought that Hinako wasn’t a complete nutter, this volume would disabuse you of the notion. She inappropriately obsesses over horned beetles and banchou capes all volume
After an episode full of heads exploding and faces cut off, Kuroko enjoys some relatively anonymous sex with a random teen prostitute.
Ratings:
Art – 6
Story – 7
Characters – 7
Service – 10
Yuri – 9
Overall – 8
Also, they fight a WWII-era guild of killer psychopaths.
Well if Hinako gets to keep appearing and keeps getting character moments it might be worth picking this series up again. The stalker and the bomber arcs really were not my cup of tea but if this is more fun I might get back on board with buying MURCIÉLAGO again.
It’s still a vehicle for nasty deaths and this volume is not any different, really.