To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts

A manga about how experimental monster soldiers who helped win a war are losing their humanity and becoming true monsters themselves. These sacred beasts are hunted down by their former captain who is in turn hunted by a young woman who swears revenge for her murdered father.

I checked out this series after the anime adaptation started. It’s a completely decent action series but the story is predictable. You have episodic arcs where the captain hunts down a former comrade and the young woman sees the prejudices the scared beasts endure and that leads to some dramatic payoff as each soldier is put to rest. There’s supposed to a major mystery about the origin of the sacred beasts that tied with the captain’s lover along with a betrayal of a childhood friend but this too seemed pretty rote. By the time I reached the flashback I wasn’t interested with the storytelling or art work so I dropped this.

It’s available from Kodansha Comics if you’re interested. Not for me.

~dakazu