I know this means something, I swear!
- Last Week’s Stealth Symphony: Jig heads to the town of Jinbocho to find an exorcist to cure his curse. Too bad that he’s been told by assassin Jakking Kawaharada that he has no curse (it’s a heirloom) and the director was lying to him. Jig goes into a rage before he’s saved by Troma in his dragon form.
Summary of Stealth Symphony Chapter 2
- After being unable to kill Jig, Jakking attempts to use poison gas to get his point across. He gets stabbed by the vice president of the Assassin’s Guild, Souya Yuunagi. After a conversation involving Troma’s true origin, Souya attempts to threaten Jig into joining the guild, but is stopped by the members of the V&V agency. With his dream of finding a way to cure his “curse” over (and his wallet stolen), Jig decides to work at the agency.
See, even assassin guilds have standards!
My Take
- First things first: you want to know how balanced this world is? When even pickpockets are able to steal from guys who have killing or superior battle skills, then you know you’ve got a world where anything goes. Probably.
Like I said, so broken
- Anyways, as I guess I should have expected, Jig’s gonna stay with the V&V Agency, preferably to mess around with Troma, Alice, and the rest of the V&V Agency until he can figure out what he really wants to do next: kill the director or get rid of his curse. Ok, so he wants to get rid of his so called curse, but hey, he’s gotta want to speak to the director at some point right? Maybe not kill though…
- So, if my understanding is correct, Troma was the dragon that got defeated by Mimerond? Man, that’s kind of pathetic right? I wasn’t exactly expecting to learn how Troma came to be invisible and a dragon so fast, but I don’t know if I should feel disappointed or if I should just roll with it. Maybe the default is disappointment since I wasn’t expecting history between Troma and the Assassin’s Guild.
- That said, how close are the Assassin’s Guild and the V&V Agency? I doubt it’ll get explored in the next few chapters, since now the onus is on coming up with creative missions for Jig and Troma. And maybe a third character, one with a random personality to liven things up. But yeah, it feels like they’ve done some business before. Whether it actually matters we’ll have to see.
- Now we’ll have to see what’s next for this series. I worry quite a bit about what Jig has to do since this type of stuff has been done before, but will it be executed in a decent manner? That’s the real mystery and the general trouble of most shounen series. But I have to find out!
