Manga: Triage X

[Archangel]

[XLG] - Vol. 02

[Ryllharu]

The older team members are scary awesome. The super-strong nurse Hitsugi and Dr. Yuko (katana) particularly. Miki (sniper) is a little understated, but that fits well enough and her personality quirk of toying with Arashi and Mikoto was funny. I do like that at least Dr. Yuko's superhuman sword skills are meant to be tied to her skill as a surgeon/doctor.

It's also pleasant that they three team members compliment each others' skills on both teams. For Zero, Yuko is close range, and Miki far, while Hitsugi covers mid range and support, they're a pretty straight-forward team. For One, Mikoto covers close-mid, Arashi shields her while additionally providing variable firepower with the shotgun, and Oriha covers the both of them from the shadows and provides clean-up. That way, the other two can drive their enemies into Oriha's traps.

The one thing I was hoping to get out of this volume was maybe something about why the others, "have all faced death one way or another." Arashi's was pretty clear, but we haven't heard much about the others at all. I'm particularly curious on how Oriha ended up doing this.

Mikoto is a pretty good tsundere, and she's surprisingly open about all of it (which Miki and the others take advantage of for their amusement). Arashi is dense enough that nothing will come of it for a while, but he does care about her.

Lastly, the best part about this volume: Miki bitching about how long it would take to clean out Yuko's hair. Finally a series that recognizes that super long hair takes forever to wash, especially when it it full of blood and bits of people. A startling piece of realism in a series that relishes in over-the-top.