Okay, so, now you're wondering - you're about to take off for summer vacation and if you can't bring The Last Uniform
with you to read, what can you bring?Let me suggest you throw a copy of Silent Mobius, Volume 3
into your carry-on.Silent Mobius is good, solid old-school sci-fi, and this volume has spaceships and computers and very obviously adult women who are sometimes in various states of undress, but you can be darn certain that they are adult.
Volume 3 picks up where Volume 2 left off, with Yuki's backstory. I'd forgotten how honestly unsatisfying the ending of that is. It's not that Yuki doesn't step up, but it reeks of Tuxedo Mask on a lightpole shouting, "Do it, Sailor Moon!"
From there we move into Lebia's story. I consider Lebia to be one of the most interesting characters in AMP. She lives alone with her AI in a luxurious apartment, with an indoor pool. On a cop's salary? You can't tell me Lebia isn't
The translation in Udon's new edition has settled down nicely. I still don't quite feel that each character has a unique voice, but that's common in translated material...everyone sounds like the translator. More importantly, the translation reads smoothly, the color pictures look good and in general, as women in uniform kicking ass go...this series is still as wonderful as ever.
Ratings:
Art - 9
Story - 9
Characters - 8
Loser FanBoy - 2 (There is nothing loser-y in appreciating adult women's bodies.)
Yuri - 0
Overall - 8
Still no Yuri, but we haven't gotten to Rally yet. Get your Yuri Goggles ready though....
I just love the heck out of this series. I'm going to go and play Kindan no Pense over and over and over. Oh and by the way, Asamiya Kia is on Twitter and he's very talkative there - go tell him how much you like Silent Mobius!