{"id":3129,"date":"2009-07-13T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T06:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2012-10-06T23:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T06:13:47","slug":"captive-hearts-volume-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2009\/07\/13\/captive-hearts-volume-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Captive Hearts Volume 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convinced that finding the jewel of the Dragon God will release the Kuroishi family from their curse, Megumi and Suzuka travel to China together.\u00a0 Will they succeed in their mission and finally break the captive spell?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By Matsuri Hino
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Viz Media – Shojo Beat
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> Teen
\nGenre:<\/strong> Comedy\/Romance
\nPrice: <\/strong>$8.99<\/p>\n

In this final volume of Captive Hearts<\/em>, Megumi and Suzuka go to China to fulfill the Kogami family’s contract with the Dragon God, which will hopefully cancel out the Kuroishi family’s curse.\u00a0 But it turns out the Kuroishi weren’t the only ones to have been cursed by the Dragon God, and this new group isn’t as understanding about things as Megumi.<\/p>\n

The comedy and hijinks continue in this last volume of Captive Hearts<\/em>, though the burden is taken off of Megumi and is transferred to a group of villagers who were cursed by the Dragon God to turn into animals at night.\u00a0 Their bumbling efforts to get Suzuka make for some laughs, as so their transformations, as not all villages turn into animals.\u00a0 Some just gets ears and tails.<\/p>\n

The majority of the volume takes place in the village, as the leader and fortune-teller, Granny, tries to get Suzuka to summon the Dragon God so they can kill him.\u00a0 Suzuka believes that the jewel they are looking for is in or near the village, so it becomes a race as to who can find it first and either release everyone from the curses or see the Dragon God destroyed.\u00a0 While the comedy continues to pervade throughout the volume, it takes a sudden turn into the dramatic with the story of what really happened all those centuries ago, and Granny’s overwhelming desire for revenge.\u00a0 While I liked the concept, and am happy the Dragon God was well within his rights to do what he did, I don’t care for the sudden breaks and spin-out into a dramatic moment.<\/p>\n

The volume ends with a happy ending for everyone; the villagers, Megumi and Suzuka, and even the Dragon God and his love Feicui.\u00a0 And there’s a surprise for Suzuka that makes the happy ending complete.\u00a0 It’s a little contrived for my liking, but in the author’s notes, Hino states that she had this happy ending in mind the entire time, so that doesn’t make it seem so<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n

There is one last bonus story at the end.\u00a0 It’s another romance between a student and teacher.\u00a0 The story is average, but what makes it interesting, is that it’s not drawn in her usual style.\u00a0 The characters don’t have the usual spiky-can-impale-you hair, or the super glassy eyes.\u00a0 If she drew in this style more often, I might like more of her manga.<\/p>\n

Captive Hearts<\/em> wraps up with all the loose ends being tied, but with an open enough ending that more stories could be written later on.\u00a0 It’s a good ending, but like the manga itself, it’s not great.\u00a0 It’s good for some laughs, and the Dragon God is pretty cool, if a little quirky.\u00a0 It’s a good read, but not a keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Convinced that finding the jewel of the Dragon God will release the Kuroishi family from their curse, Megumi and Suzuka travel to China together.\u00a0 Will they succeed in their mission and finally break the captive spell? By Matsuri Hino Publisher: Viz Media – Shojo Beat Age Rating: Teen Genre: Comedy\/Romance Price: $8.99 In this final volume of Captive Hearts, Megumi and Suzuka go to China to fulfill the Kogami family’s contract with the Dragon God, which will hopefully cancel out the Kuroishi family’s curse.\u00a0 But it turns out the Kuroishi weren’t the only ones to have been cursed by the Dragon God, and this new group isn’t as understanding about things as Megumi. The comedy and hijinks continue in this last volume of Captive Hearts, though the burden is taken off of Megumi and is transferred to a group of villagers who were cursed by the Dragon God to turn into animals at night.\u00a0 Their bumbling efforts to get Suzuka make for some laughs, as so their transformations, as not all villages turn into animals.\u00a0 Some just gets ears and tails. The majority of the volume takes place in the village, as the leader and fortune-teller, Granny, tries to get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[83,110,120,135],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-viz-media","tag-manga","tag-review","tag-shojo","tag-teen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2012\/10\/Captive-Hearts-5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-Ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}