Name: PandoraHearts, Vol. 1
Rating: 4.321428571428571 (28 reviews)
ISBN: 9780316076074

Jun Mochizuki

Originally published: Japan: Square Enix Co., Ltd., 2006.

PandoraHearts, Vol. 1

The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. He is thrown into an eternal, inescapable prison known as the Abyss from which there is no escape. There, he meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, do they lead only to crushing despair for Oz, or is there some shred of hope for him to grasp on to?

When it was originally being published, "Pandora Hearts" never quite managed to grab my attention and keep me reading past the 2nd chapter. However, I have been massively enjoying Mochizuki's current series, "The Case Study of Vanitas", so I wanted to try and revisit this.

And don't get me wrong - the art is rough, especially in comparison to the beautiful flow of Vanitas, and the narration in the first volume is a little clumpy. But there genuinely seems to be a lot of promise in the story so I am looking forward to seeing where it will go.

When it was originally being published, "Pandora Hearts" never quite managed to grab my attention and keep me reading past the 2nd chapter. However, I have been massively enjoying Mochizuki's current series, "The Case Study of Vanitas", so I wanted to try and revisit this.

And don't get me wrong - the art is rough, especially in comparison to the beautiful flow of Vanitas, and the narration in the first volume is a little clumpy. But there genuinely seems to be a lot of promise in the story so I am looking forward to seeing where it will go.

Darkness

I don't know what to write. Like we didn't get a lot. Like at all. The story started cheerful about the coming of age ceremony and running from housekeeper to dark turn with abyss and people who sent the main character there because of some kind of sin. What sin? We don't know. Only we know he did something I guess and he is in contact with a weird girl without memories. Got old looking watch and a crazy dream of that girl almost killing him.

PandoraHearts, Vol. 1

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