Medalist Volume 8 Review • UK Anime Britain News

“I walk, but no one notices me.” Leonid Sorokin to Sugas. “Everyone in the arena is an ignorant fool.”

Recently, Yutsuka has mastered a four -time Salhou, which she and the coach of Sugasa Akeradge Hot Nadiya will give her an advantage when she competes in her first in the history of the National Event, a newcomer in Amory. But the news of her achievement precedes her, and when she arrives, she quickly realizes that everyone, participants, coaches and audiences, place it as a newcomer who can make a four -time Salho. However, everything that matters is that she will get a chance to compete against her idol/rival Hikar Kamisaki is finally on one cob.

The main opposition is still the Suza Camoto “The strongest in the world”, which he watched for her capricious coach, Chokac Camegai. Suz can play her mercy, but her technique is formidable, and she has an inner steel that sees it pulls a triple axel (which innovia is not yet fulfilled), and then a sequence of technically demanding jumps. The crowd loves her – and so do judges, awarding her 110.55, putting her on leadership. But it is only the sixth skating of thirty-six, and Hikaru-Silenti is in order.

It soon becomes obvious that the standard of other young participants is incredibly high. Other friends and colleagues -figures and their coaches in the audience, including Rio and EMU (who do not compete). It is not surprising that Sugasa wisely advises innova not to watch Hikar when she gets to the ice, but how she was drawn to compete in one group to warm up behind the scenes. Also, apparently not surprisingly, inniry cannot tolerate not Watch Hikar and go against his advice.

Before this, Sugas collided with a fashionably dressed foreign visitor with a small command of Japanese-but a pander, an important air. Using the translators app on his communication phone, Sugasa finds that a man is no other than Leonid Sorokin, Jun Jodak’s choreographer, and he has Jun at the other end of the smartphone: the last Sugasa with which Sugasa wanted to be forced to interact at this point. It’s time for some simple -speaking Sugas …

With Tom 8, we see through the eyes of Sugas and Inor, how the formidable Hikaru on the ice – and we will also learn a little more about how much she controls Jodak. The fact that she chooses a piece of music, which he initially made her program for her program is very significant, and everyone on the skating room recognizes what is happening. It is a monarch who conveys his crown to the next rulers in anticipation is a frank revolution. The Hikar program dominates the last sections of the book, when we see it with different eyes: Sugas cannot help but see Jun Yodak in his performance – yet innovah’s determination to defeat Hikar only becomes intense. So, in some ways, there are very little in these sections – but psychologically, innova, and Sugas, they face the main challenge, opposing the reality of what means to oppose someone, as managed and talented as a hikaru.

It is not all high drama, but because many wonderful comic strokes are still prevalent, including sugar in a proper suit, and Inori, which has its own plush mascot (readers and fans of anime will be able to guess what it turns out!) Still, the dynamic drawing of the skiing that attracts the eye when Tsurumaykada gives us more attractive angles when the Hikaru rises to the ice, imposed on the reactions of the audience, all filtered through the eyes of Sugas and Inor.

The translation is still Kevin Gifford, who brings us effortlessly, despite all the terminology of technical skating – and all the consequences of the icy cathok are well transmitted by the letter Scott O’Brien for the print edition (considered here). Unfortunately, there are no more colored pages, but at the end there are six 4-bands, as well as some detailed characters and sketches between sections. The one -page symbol and the result of the plot are also very useful at the beginning. Volume 9 will be released in July and Japan, recently the striking art of the cover for Tom 13 has been published.

This volume, in something, simply increases to take the ice to compete, but it lays a lot of important grounds for what it should be, leaving us uncertain about how Inori will respond to Hikar’s performance. The tension is palpable!

Our review copy from Kodansha was provided by Diamond Book Distributors UK.