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Chronin #2
Chronin, Vol. 2: The Sword in Your Hand
Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus’s Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand, a thrilling conclusion to a time-bending graphic novel duology
Japan's history will never be the same. The timeline has veered off course with the abrupt deaths of prominent players in the nation's past, influencers who were supposed to start the Meiji Restoration. Now Mirai Yoshida, former Japanese-American undergrad turned samurai on the lam, may never find her way back to where she belongs.
Unless a high-stakes plan is enacted. With help from her newfound friends, Mirai must instigate a peasant uprising to correct the course of history. But in order to succeed, she faces a dangerous and powerful fellow time traveler, an enemy who accidentally glimpsed his country's destiny and didn't like what he saw.
Chronin, Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand concludes the adrenaline-fueled adventure that asks: when time is of the essence, is it more important to save yourself or the future?
Follow the story from the beginning in Chronin, Vol #1: The Knife at Your Back!
Japan's history will never be the same. The timeline has veered off course with the abrupt deaths of prominent players in the nation's past, influencers who were supposed to start the Meiji Restoration. Now Mirai Yoshida, former Japanese-American undergrad turned samurai on the lam, may never find her way back to where she belongs.
Unless a high-stakes plan is enacted. With help from her newfound friends, Mirai must instigate a peasant uprising to correct the course of history. But in order to succeed, she faces a dangerous and powerful fellow time traveler, an enemy who accidentally glimpsed his country's destiny and didn't like what he saw.
Chronin, Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand concludes the adrenaline-fueled adventure that asks: when time is of the essence, is it more important to save yourself or the future?
Follow the story from the beginning in Chronin, Vol #1: The Knife at Your Back!
448 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2019
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December 21, 2019
"One man is causing all of this. One. Surely one woman can stop it."
That call to arms adds a star to this solid time travel yarn. The ending was a bit too reliant on talking heads, but by that time I was too close to the characters to really care.
The dedication and the acknowledgements hint that the author may have an interesting autobiographical story I'd like to read if she ever set it to paper.
That call to arms adds a star to this solid time travel yarn. The ending was a bit too reliant on talking heads, but by that time I was too close to the characters to really care.
The dedication and the acknowledgements hint that the author may have an interesting autobiographical story I'd like to read if she ever set it to paper.
October 11, 2020
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It's an interesting story of Japan just before the Meiji Restoration, with a woman from 2042 masquerading as a samurai and a time-travel screw-up potentially erasing our version of history. The plot is intriguing enough, and has some good gender-bending twists, but I'm afraid I found the art (also by the author) rather deficient; it was difficult to tell several of the key characters apart, and they sometimes seemed rather awkwardly posed, which rather distracted me from what was going on.
It's an interesting story of Japan just before the Meiji Restoration, with a woman from 2042 masquerading as a samurai and a time-travel screw-up potentially erasing our version of history. The plot is intriguing enough, and has some good gender-bending twists, but I'm afraid I found the art (also by the author) rather deficient; it was difficult to tell several of the key characters apart, and they sometimes seemed rather awkwardly posed, which rather distracted me from what was going on.
January 25, 2020
A great conclusion to the Chronin story! I thought Wilgus did an excellent job plotting both volumes, though my issue with the art/color continued (it just feels washed out in grayness). (I did like a small Easter egg in the final pages that referenced the author's terrific webcomic, A Stray in the Woods.)
August 12, 2022
Likeable and an interesting story that thankfully went in a slightly different direction than I expected. The art though was an issue with the gray wash I had difficulty at time differentiating the characters. Still worth a read.
January 1, 2020
MY HEART IS FULL TO BURSTING.
I'm ending the year on a great note, and it feels good.
I'm ending the year on a great note, and it feels good.
November 9, 2019
The continuing story of a time-traveling student stuck in Tokugawa period Japan. She must figure out who or what has caused the changes to the timeline and figure out how to get the timeline back on track, in order to be able to get back to her own time. It's a story of people, relationships, and progress.
It's good and the art is GORGEOUS, but I was a little disappointed in how the story wrapped up. It seemed a bit rushed, and I felt like there were parts missing. Still happy to know how it ended though.
But if you want a story where the importance is the relationships between the various people and not the plot itself, then you'll probably enjoy this much more than I did.
It's good and the art is GORGEOUS, but I was a little disappointed in how the story wrapped up. It seemed a bit rushed, and I felt like there were parts missing. Still happy to know how it ended though.
But if you want a story where the importance is the relationships between the various people and not the plot itself, then you'll probably enjoy this much more than I did.
April 15, 2023
interesting book, i read half of it a few days ago, came back and finished it today.
This Is the second half, the first time i tried reading it i gave up, finished it today only so i could pass it on, didn't expect it to end so well. The art makes the characters hard to distinguish, would have been easier reading if it were in color.
The time travel is v. well done, but wish i'd read the first volume.
This Is the second half, the first time i tried reading it i gave up, finished it today only so i could pass it on, didn't expect it to end so well. The art makes the characters hard to distinguish, would have been easier reading if it were in color.
The time travel is v. well done, but wish i'd read the first volume.
November 25, 2019
Absolutely love it (and vol 1!). There's truly interesting queer characters across the beautiful human spectrum and some of these pages look like and read like a love letter to the Japanese countryside. Also it made me audibly gasp in public at plot turns, so that's not nothing.
September 17, 2019
My face swung wildly between the :O and :D emojis the entire time I was reading this. IT'S SO SATISFYING. If you like queer time-travel hijinks then pick this duology up immediately.
October 7, 2019
Best ending ever! XD
December 19, 2019
A really interesting and exciting conclusion.
December 29, 2019
Great conclusion to a well thought out time travel comic.
December 29, 2019
I think I found my new favorite graphic novel duology!
May 16, 2020
an okay time. the story went some places I'm not wild about, but that's probably just because I have very specific plotlines I like re: time travel.
April 18, 2023
This is a cool series. Vol. 2 took a little too long to get to the end, but I enjoyed it.
October 17, 2023
The small portion about the overlaps in timelines leading to deviations in the future state was fascinating .
March 19, 2021
Cool concept, but the second volume wasn't as fun as the first for me.
For parents - there is swearing and nudity.
For parents - there is swearing and nudity.
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