MURCIÉLAGO has been a favorite of mine since Volume 1 hit shelves in Japan in 2014. And I loved that we got a side story about crazy-eyed sniper Reiko in 2018. It kind of ended and I forgot about it. Imagine my surprise, then to find that not only had I fallen behind on the main MURCIÉLAGO manga, but that there were like 5 more volumes of Reiko’s adventures in the underworld!  D’oh!

So here we are at MURCIÉLAGO -ムルシエラゴ- BYPRODUCT -アラーニァ- Arania, Volume 2 and Reiko is still corpse-deep in a Chinese mafia gang war. But, don’t worry, she’s cool. She is hired by one of the sides, which spell sdoom for the other side, and I wonder if you get shot like that, specifically, if your eyeball would hang out of your head like it does here. When I read this series, I end up wondering a lot of things like that, far more than I ever question the plot.

Reiko’s domestic idyll with her nice girlfriend is now permanently interrupted by the presence of a former Chinese mafia girl who likes to sleep naked and who fantasizes about Reiko.

Ratings:

Art – 7 Extra bloody and gutsy
Story – 7 Ditto
Characters – … … … What do you want me to say, really?
Service – 7
Yuri – 5

Overall – 7

I mean, who can blame her.