


The gratuitous naked breasts are more perfunctory. A Terrible Thing happened at the end of Volume 9, and though the characters have had three years to adjust, it feels as if they all have that much less spark. Sadly, it looks as if the story has run out of puff a bit.

This Romeo and Juliet space opera has been going for nearly ten years and you’re welcome to read my previous blog posts. I won’t try to summarise the Story So Far. But delighted is not too strong a word for my reaction when the Comics experts at Kinokuniya told me the hiatus had ended and monthly comics Nº 55–60 had been collected to make Volume 10. It would be overstating it to say I was devastated when Saga went on hiatus ‘for a year’ after volume 9 in 2018 and then stayed out for three years.
