Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter Volume 2 manga review

Manga
Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter Volume 2 manga review
By Leroy Douresseaux
June 26, 2016 - 21:05

Viz Media
Writer(s): Keiichi Hikami, John Werry, Stan!
Penciller(s): Shin Yamamoto
Letterer(s): John Hunt, Primary Graphix
ISBN: 978-1-4215-8426-3
$10.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 U.K., 224pp, B&W, paperback
Rating: T+ (Teen Plus)

Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter Volume 2 cover image

Rated “T+” for “Older Teen”

Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter is an action-fantasy manga written by Keiichi Hikami and drawn by Shin Yamamoto. Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter is based on Capcom's Monster Hunter video game series that was initially developed for the PlayStation 2.

Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter is set in an age when monsters rule the world: soaring through the sky, treading the earth, and filling the seas. These monsters have forced humanity to survive on the fringes, so people rely on a special kind of hero to defend them from danger – the Monster Hunters.

Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter, Vol. 2 (Chapters 8 to 15) finds our Monster Hunter trio: fledgling hunter, Raiga; veteran hunter, Keres; and hunter-scholar, Torche taking on a monster called a Rathian. Known as the “Queen of the Land,” this creature is nearly impossible to defeat. Can the Hunters stop a monster that can block out the sun? Plus, the trio reunite to defend a small village from a monster rampage, but Raiga will find that this mission has summoned someone from his past.

[This volume includes the bonus chapters “Another Hunter,” Story 2 and Story 3 and also “Monhun and Me.”]

THE LOWDOWN: The Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter manga is a comic book for fans of the Monster Hunter game... I guess. I don't think I had ever heard of the game before this manga. In fact, in spite of its “Teen” rating, I think that preteen readers will like this; it is not as if this manga (or at least this volume) contains material that is inappropriate for them.

Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter Volume 1 does offer a menagerie of interesting and fearsome-looking monsters. That is the one thing that attracts me to this manga because the characters are not doing much to interest me. Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter, however, does have potential. I can see the creative team getting more assured of what they are doing with each chapter.

POSSIBLE AUDIENCE: Fans of the Monster Hunter video game franchise will want to try Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter.

B-

Rating: B-/10