Fanservice with a side of brutality.

With the exposition out of the way we get the expected action with unexpected humor. And fanservice. Plenty of it.

I think I honestly cheered by the end of this read.

If you read my first two reviews of Triage X, then what happens in volume 3 should be pretty self explanatory: exposition, boobs, buns and guns. That’s really all you need to know, and all that matters. We learn more about the pyro bitch we were introduced to in the end of volume 2 (designated “Fever”), learn more about Mikoto (best girl needs a hug), see her interact with Fever and then motherfuckers get shot in the face or mauled with Hitsugi’s bare hands.

“.45 facelift” is something I’ll never tire of saying…or writing.

There, that’s volume 3 in a nutshell.

Honestly what stood out to me besides the basics are two things: comedy and fanservice. We haven’t really had much comedy in this book, but Oriha was clearly intended to be the comic relief character and we get plenty of that. It’s Japanese anime/manga humor though and if you ain’t used to that shit you will probably be thinking “what the fuck am I reading”. But once you get used to it, it is funny.

I feel Arashi in each…

…of these…

…screencaps. Although it’s funny how anxious the teacher gets that she is boring her class.

Fanservice. Oh Lord the fanservice. American comics I don’t think have had legitimate fanservice (outside the occasional variant cover) since…what…fucking Gotham City Sirens? When was that, 2009-2010?

Each volume doesn’t have many color pages, but V3 certainly makes them count.

Remember when DC’s females didn’t look like teenage boys?

DC really used to understand who their audience was. And this really wasn’t that long ago.

Girl-girl teasing and massage scenes, showers, femme fatale demonstrations…are they necessary for the exposition moments? No, of fucking course not. But Shouji Sato knows who the hell his audience is (it isn’t spinstress cat ladies and gender confused manlets) and he caters to us while having these expository moments that move the story forward.

Fever might have the hots for Mikoto…but I can’t blame her.

Highlight is Hitsugi (second best girl) going full demon-mode and brutalizing a drug-dealing street gang with her bare fists. It’s comically over the top and brutal and well…

This entire one-girl rampage by Hitsugi is so amazing it is borderline poetry.

You like John Wick? You like anime or manga? Action comics? Tits? Read the damn book already. The end.