| | |  | SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED | Home » » » » Haruka, Vol. 4: Beyond the Stream of Time | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | R to L (Japanese Style)Akane is your typical teenage girl...until she swallows the Dragon Jewels and is transported to the Heian period of ancient Japan! There in the capital city, Akane learns that she has been foreordained to lead the people as the Priestess of the Dragon God! As Akane lays plans to find the remaining two of her Eight Guardians, she stumbles onto a mysterious instrument that sends her into a deep, paralyzing sleep. Unfortunately, the only one who can save her is one of the two Guardians she hasn't yet met! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tohko Mizuno | | Paperback:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| May 05, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421520370 | | Product Length:
| 7.48 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.08 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.64 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.41 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 One of my daughter's favoritesNov 21, 2010
By Chanindra
I bought these books for my daughter who loves the story and she sits and reads them over and over and over again. Well worth the price.
 Haruka 4Oct 16, 2010
By Kryssa
I love this series. Although this is a really cheezy phrase, I liken reading it to eating a cupcake. It's full of sweetness and fun, but it's also quite simple and relatively straightforward. It's the usual manga series, having a reverse harem for all the ladies to enjoy, but the characters have great personality. Even though most people tend to hate the female protagonist on sheer principle, I admit to liking like her.
The one thing that I'm not terribly fond of is that the author tends to make a lot of the things unsaid/undrawn. It means that you end up scrambling around for a minute wondering 'what happened, I didn't read that, did I?' It's must more prevalent in the first two books, but minimized here. The one scene I would have liked to see was Inori's fight with Shimon. Although it's explained in the fifth volume, I find that the distance via time and book also gives the audience too much distance. We don't feel the real emotional punch of both Inori's anger and Shimon and Akane's pain.
Overall, it's a good series. I know that it's been going on for quite a while, it is completed. I haven't read that far in advance, but I'm hoping it continues to move and show character change.
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