Review: #376
Title: Deltora Quest Volume 10
Series: Deltora Quest - 10th volume
Author: Story by Emily Rodda; Illustrated by Makoto Niwano
Read Before: no
My Comments: Guess what? After the last volume completed the Dread Mountain arc, this final volume condenses the last three books into one volume! Yeah, they spent all that time in the beginning dragging each book out and staying so faithfully to its source material and then they give up in the end. Not sure if this was a conscious and deliberate decision made right from the start or the manga was getting axed and the illustrator had to wrap it up. Anyway, it does not do the last three books justice (well… even less justice than normal). Especially the Valley of the Lost arc, the manga adaptation loses all the cleverness and ingenuity. It felt too brief and skipped too many things. Overall, the manga adaptation of Deltora Quest didn’t live up to its potential; from the forced humor (it tries to be serious at times yet extremely silly at others, inconsistent) to the style of drawing.
Rating: 5.5/10
