| | |  | SHOJO BEAT | Home » » » Red River, Vol. 28 | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Over 15 million copies sold in Japan! R to L (Japanese Style). Final Volume! Prince Kail, a young warrior and sorcerer, and Yuri, a modern-day teen, were thrown together when Queen Nakia drew Yuri across time and space into the ancient Hittite Empire. When it is the season of the North Star, Prince Kail has the power to send Yuri home. But the evil queen's plan to murder them both--and their growing feelings for one another--keep getting in the way! During the ceremony to install her as Tawannana, Yuri tells Kail she's pregnant. Then, in a glimpse into the near future, Kikkuri recounts a day in his life as the chief trainer for the kingdom's horses, and Yuri gets herself into a bit of a fix while visiting Cappadocia. And in the concluding tale, love finds its own road in the events leading up to the marriage of Ramses, now the Pharoah of Egypt, and Kail and Yuri's granddaughter Naptella. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Chie Shinohara | | Paperback:
| 200 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| January 12, 2010 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421522543 | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.56 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.04 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.39 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.18 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 An unfortunate end to a brilliant seriesAug 14, 2010
By Lady Thoth Reviews
Chie's graphic novel series Red River had me reading ravenously from book to book, until the final volume. Up until this point, the series was full of gripping plot twists, romance, capture, political intrigue, magic, princes, history, and everything you could look for in the perfect Shoujo. At the end of volume 27, I couldn't have been looking forward to the final volume more than I was. I was really expecting some great things. After all, it was the longest series I had read at that point in time.
Well, when the book finally arrived, it wasn't a worthy finish. The story ended 20 pages into this volume, and the rest of it was taken up by comic strips about a day in the life of particular characters I didn't even care about. I was really hoping to see more about what happened after the marriage we all expected, but instead we just got, "Yuri and the King were married, and it was a happy marriage, and a time of prosperity and peace. But then catastrophe came to the land, and the once great civilization disappeared and has been left in a state of decay. Now all that remains is ruins, and the only thing that can be heard now is the whisper of the wind." This is a horrible, convenient, thrown together conclusion. It just sums up things, and moves on as if the journey we have been on for over 20 books was nothing.
What I wanted to see was something about the family that Yuri left behind, or if something about her continued into the future. The future she left behind, never to reenter. I know that she is Ishtar in the story, but I would've liked to see some implications of her travel back in time on the rest of humanity. Especially the people that knew and loved her. We assume that her family thinks she disappeared, but we don't get anything more about them. If not that, something about Yuri's children or family (if she had any) in Anatolia. But we get none of that. All we get is a rushed summary and destruction of everything.
The 28th volume was such a waste of paper, that I wish they would have just made the 27th one a bit longer and ended it there. No reason to get my expectations up for a volume that is less then what came before it.
This series is good, but if you're going to read it, check it out from the library. Save yourself the money.
 It does throw you for a loop but...Mar 03, 2012
By Jennifer Anderson
"Mousie Soshie"
I understand why people rate the book poorly - you go in thinking the entire book is about the two main characters only to find they don't make it as the stars of the show even a quarter of the way through. However, most mangas usually leave you hanging as to what happens to the main characters. I think that it was the author's intention to not do this. From different vantage points we are allowed to see what happens to the main characters from their children (in Kikkuri's story) through two of their granddaughters - the story finishing up, to a degree the Hittite Empire and not just the two main characters. Honestly, I like seeing where all the sacrifices and toils the the original characters faced led to in the long run through the extra episodes that followed the story. Each story, in its own sense, although short, was interesting and continued the original story in a way we rarely get to experience in such mangas - even if it was somewhat quickly. So, I have no regrets over the purchase of this last manga and feel satisfied with the story's conclusion. It's original and change, although poorly accepted at first, is usually embraced once it is more common.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The most amazing Manga... the worst ending..May 31, 2011
By K
I have read the 'Red River' series about three times over. I bought this book right when it came out. What a mistake. Volme 27 had us lulled into a false sense of an acitonpacked end; not so. Its pretty much 'They had a happy marriage' and then it tells us about Kikkuri's day (Sad to say, I don't really care about Kikkuri) and the other short story one was better. But what about the action? The romance? The complicated love hexagons!?!?! (haha)..
I had high hopes for this book. I literally cried when (SPOILER ALERT!!!!)
it said That (Queen) Yuri Ishtar died of an unknown disease and (King) Kail died as if to be with his dead wife. That was horrible. That was like a punch in the stomach. THEY DIE!? Yes; they die. Of old age. The greatest duo EVER dies- of old age. Let them die in battle or something!! I was so upset; It was a horrible ending to the amazing Yuri and Kail.
And then a years pass; we have the story of Yuri (No, not the main character Yuri), this is a random chick who pretends to be a dude- Literally. I really don't remember how she ties into it all. She hooks up with some dude whose a spy or something. This Yuri girl is supposed to marry Ramses Grandson. But she escapes with whats-his face and Yuri's granddaughter end marriying Ramses Grandson instead (which was cute <3) But other than that, this was the WORST of the Red River series, hands down.
Hopefully, if they ever make a Red River anime (WHICH THEY SHOULD!!!!!), they will either:
- End it with Kail and Yuri's wedding
- Make a different ending.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I was glad to see the ending... kind ofJan 15, 2011
By Neyen
"Neyen2000"
The ending was good, because the got married and lived happily , until the hitite empire disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them... (>.>) I would've liked to see what happened to them after the marriage... It was such a good series and the ending was such a letdown.
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