Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter Volume 1 Paperback – 5 April 2016

This is the first Magna I've seen for Monster Hunter and I didn't hesitate to get it. And i wasn't disappointed! I love it and I'll be buying the rest of the series.

Great art and writing. Really captures the essence of the game. Well done manga series. I'm going to read the whole series

I usually don't do well with manga (or graphic novels) based on video games but I loved Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter which is actually an adaptation of the novels. A typical quest type of fantasy I found this a lot of fun and comparable to Fairy Tail. Raiga, a novice hunter, finds his team disbanded and goes solo, but solo hunting is near to impossible, especially for a trainee so he sets off to find a partner. On advice, he is sent to Loc Lac along with Keres, an arrogant, serious hunter who takes an instant dislike to Raiga and later the two take on their first quest with Torche, a bumbling hunter who finds trouble follows her everywhere. They get off to a rocky start battling a wyvern, but by the book's end have formed a team. I enjoyed this a lot, liked its "Fairy Tail" resemblance, the noticeboard the hunters visit to choose quests from, the armour stats, and info on the monsters. This is a battle-packed volume but for a first, enough effort went into defining the three main characters to give us a good handle on their personalities and a bit of background as well. I've pre-ordered the next few volumes. This looks like it's going to be good!