Reviews for Nightmare Inspector: Yumekui Kenbun, Volume 8: Madness

The average rating for Nightmare Inspector: Yumekui Kenbun, Volume 8: Madness based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-24 00:00:00 David Corsi Another tasty collection of bad dreams for our Baku. Out of all the episodic 'horror' manga there is on offer, I have only liked a handful and seeing as I'm up to volume 8 of this, you can draw the conclusion this is one of them ( Ghost Hunt is the other). I like this one because Hiruko, Hifumi and Misako are more than framework for the horror as in so many others. The dreams included in this one include one about childhood friendship that was really more about a bully and his victim who's finally tired of it. Kairi, the owner of the fantasy-maker club Delirium, gets trapped in his own club and Hifumi and Hiruko go to help him. Perhaps the most interesting of the dreams is the one where the dreamer is setting up traps to capture Baku putting Hiruko and his rival, Tsukishiro, at risk. Hifumi plays two central roles in a couple dreams, a serious one about his friend's inn which leaves Hiruko injured and the absolutely silly one where Hifumi finds himself in an arranged married to Shigoroku, a cross-dressing wealthy daughter who is pretty much Hifumi was a woman. The next volume also sounds too interesting to wait long to buy it.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-07 00:00:00 James Mccafferty The series is winding down. The characters' past and present are on a collision course. And yet they managed to get a few more solo stories in here. Most of them are okay, but nothing special. However, we do get a couple that are really worth flagging. First Kairi gets stuck in a room at the Delerium and Hiruko and Hifumi have to go in and pull him out. It's mostly just weird, but for something that gets uncovered but not explored at the end. Then we see Tsukishiro looking into someone's dream in exchange for information. That's followed by an unimportant arc where Hifumi brings Hiruko to an inn owned by his friend to try and help him with an issue. It's pretty rare to see an absolutely serious side of Hifumi, so I enjoyed this (especially since he goes completely off the deep end with the final chapter of this book). Coming up, for better or for worse - the final issue and everything that comes with it.