BakéGyamon, Vol. 3 (Bakegyamon)

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A book by Mitsuhisa Tamura

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) The battle begins in earnest as the final 32 are paired up tournament-style. With the playing field a mock Tokyo Tower, there's only one way to go...up! Sanshiro will now have to use his battle skills against the Sanshiro's … see full wiki

Tags: Manga, Bakegyamon

Author: Mitsuhisa Tamura

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

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Battles galore in this volume of Bakegyamon

Jul 4, 2011

by ljaesch
posted in ASIANatomy

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This volume starts exactly where Volume 2 ended, with Sanshiro and Mohawk starting into a "Pushing Buns" contest. During the course of this volume, Sanshiro battles against Mohawk, London battles against Rio Ruijima, Shiori Fumizuki battles against an unnamed opponent, Mick battles against an unnamed opponent, Raiya Innami battles against an unnamed opponent, Yukinoshin Kaburagi battles against an unnamed opponent, Sanshiro battles against Toru Kureiri, Mitch battles against Sanshiro, the remaining players get to relax at a hot spring resort, and Sanshiro battles against Raiya. This volume is chock full of various battles, as the game of Bakegyamon heats up. Whenever Sanshiro is in a battle, he's always conscious not only of his own creature, but he tries to find ways to win his battles without harming his opponent's creature.

Even though I find Sanshiro's feelings for the creatures admirable, it still reminds me a lot of Ash Ketchum from Pokémon. Overall, I still really don't see much that makes Bakegyamon stand out from other "fighting" manga series.

The art style really hasn't shown much change from the previous two volumes in the series. While some of the newer characters introduced still have a derivative-looking character design, I'm not coming up with other characters they resemble as easily as I did in the previous two volumes. Hopefully, this is a sign that Mitsuhisa Tamura started going to a little more effort at this point when it came to character design. And since there was a lot of battles included in this volume, there were more "busy" panels in this volume of the manga in comparison to Volume 2.

After reading this volume, there really wasn't anything to make Bakegyamon feel less like a derivate work than the previous two volumes had. However, if you enjoy "fighting" manga titles such as Pokémon Adventures and Yu-Gi-Oh!, then you might also find enjoyment in Bakegyamon.

Bakegyamon is rated "A," which means it is suitable for readers of all ages.

I wrote this review after checking out a copy of this manga volume through the King County Library System.

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