As noted previously, we’re continuing with cautious optimism here. While things start off fairly light, with a hunt for food and then preparation of the inevitably bad cooking when the wrong ingredient is used, but then we spiral rapidly downward with the inevitable character death (hey, it is a war manga, after all), and lots of moping about before the leads suck it up and forge ahead. While the background cast gets the shaft on development, there’s some really nice moments with the female lead and a much more interesting development with the lead male, so points for that.

One more volume to go, hasn’t quite gotten out of middling territory and into the good, but its getting there, could possibly squeak in depending on how the next(and final) volume goes. Looking a bit more at the series as a whole, I didn’t realize it was an adaptation of a PS1 game, which makes me think that the game has a heck of a lot more story and development in it than would ever see the light of day in the manga, or even the anime adaptation. Unfortunately it never came to the US, so I’ll (likely) never know.