Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion, Volume 5 Book

I'll be the first to say that it's absolutely been too long between volumes. I believe I last read the previous volume in early 2018, right before we moved into our house, and now, at the end of 2019, I have finally gotten off my butt and read the final volume. As such, there's a lot of information I'd already forgotten that had nothing to do with the general reminder to myself that this series is based off of a tabletop card game in Japan. So going back into it was almost flying blind, and not even the character intro summaries at the beginning of this volume did much to remind me of who was who and what their connections and motivations were to everyone else.

But all in all, I think this was an alright conclusion to the series. Not a good one per se, as there were multiple loose ends left dangling and it felt like there were three individual climaxes to the story, only one of which was actually satisfying, and the whole thing just went so quickly that I was left perplexed and going "what, that's all?"

What I think Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion really needed was either a sequel series (and hey, if there is one out there and I don't know about it, feel free to let me know in a comment on this review,) or it would have absolutely benefited from being spread out over more volumes than just the five it got. The whole thing felt very rushed and half-done, and I really wish we had gotten more than what we did with this. The series overall is an enjoyable read, provided you don't think too much about it, but given the context and complexity of all of the varying factions, their individual powersets, and their relation to each other and to mind breakers as a whole, it's hard not to try putting at least some thought into it all. This has been a somewhat frustrating re-immersion into the series for me, but hopefully in the future whenever I choose to go through it again, I'll be a little less critical. We'll see.