Monday, January 21, 2013

Manga Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Vol. 9 (Yu-Gi-Oh! (Graphic Novels)) [Paperback]



I've finished "Yu-Gi-Oh GX Vol. 9" by Naoyuki Kageyama.

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated all ages.

Years after Yugi's legendary battles, the game is so popular that special institutions dedicated to the art of the Duel have sprung up all over the world. Join Jaden Yuki and his pals at the Academy for the adventures of the next generation of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Battle to the Finish ... The possessed Principal Mackenzie makes his final bid to crush the students of Duel Academy and seize Chazz and Jaden’s Spirit Cards! Jaden will need all his dueling skill as he battles his way through to the final Duel, fighting for his friends, his mentor Koyo Hibiki, and the fate of Duel Academy itself!

About the Author

Naoyuki Kageyama was born April 12, 1969, which makes him an Aries, and is originally from Tokyo, Japan. He is the recipient of an honorable mention for the 1990 Weekly Shonen Jump Hop Step Award for his work Mahou No Trump (Magic Trump) and started drawing Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for Monthly V Jump in February 2006. Kageyama is a baseball fan and his favorite team is the Seibu Lions.

Product Details
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (August 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421542129
ISBN-13: 978-1421542126


My Review:

Principle Mackenzie is possessed and makes his final move to crush the students of Duel and Academy and defeat Chazz and Jaden to seize their spirit cards Light and Darkness Dragon and Winged Kuriboh.  He tricks Aster Phoenix and all the best players to seize their cards and takes away their life forces. 

All of Jaden's friends are forced to fight their possessed friends which they lose to them.  Syrus life force is sucked out of him and his spirit arrives in Nightmare World chained on a web.

Chazz and Jaden are forced to fight and Chazz manages to win his round but Jaden is losing his.  Chazz races off to help Jaden and finds him unconscious but unhurt since Winged Kuriboh sucked the darkness from him.  They decide to team up against the Professor which doesn't look like it's going to well.  Chazz tells Jaden he will entrust his face up card to him with his most powerful play.  Finally Jaden calls his best play and combines his Winged Kuriboh with Chazz's Light and Darkness Dragon and crush the Professor's monster. 

The Professor won't give up with a fight but both Winged Kuriboh and Light and Darkness Dragon are determined to destroy the Professor's monster.  Winged Kuriboh sucks up the darkness from the Professor's monster and all of them disappear.

At the end Jaden becomes a pro dueler and challenges his mentor to a game to determine who is the Best Duelist in the World.

4/5

Thanks Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this manga to review, greatly appreciated!

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