The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition IV (Vol. 10-11+EX Hardcover Omnibus) Hardcover – September 26, 2023

Awesome my wife loves this.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Girl from the Other Side by Siúil, a Rún Deluxe is a captivating story with stunning visuals. The tale strikes a balance between light and shadow, leaving a lingering bittersweet feeling. The characters are well-crafted, and the bond between the girl and creature is heartwarming. The artwork is simply gorgeous, immersing you in a beautifully haunting world. The ending, though touching, might leave some wanting more closure. Overall, a must-read for fans of dark fairy tales

The story is beautiful and one of my favorites. The binding is beautiful and the book itself is great quality.

Love the series and I'm so sad that its already over! But I feel as if there are some questions that were left unaswered and I was hoping that the last book to the series would explain it. Would love if there were was a spinoff of some sort to explain things more!

Siúil, a Rún (shortened hereafter as SAR) gripped me first and foremost by its art when I perused a Barnes and Noble bookstore around 2016. Sketchy yet incredibly stylized and clean, Nagabe hit their stride very well here, and to this day it's one of the most distinctive aesthetics I've seen in its medium and practically alone made me want to buy it.SAR starts off very slice-of-life, but smartly avoids being too precocious and saccharine. It provides a good set up for deconstruction and twists that come down the line, and I would say the middle part of the series is its peak.This collection of volumes 10, 11, and 12--the final fourth of the manga-- ultimately tries to hit high emotional peaks and only partially succeeds. Teacher to the end is a sympathetic and interesting character: introspective, self-loathing, altruistic, naïve despite being quite smart. His adoptive dependent Shiva is comparatively bland. Simple-minded, kind-hearted girl. Not to spoil, but there is more of the former and not much of the latter. And while that sounds like a good thing, the true nature of Teacher's and Shiva's relationship is revealed, and it...just doesn't make a lot of sense. It gets quite metaphysical and vague and tries to tie plot threads together that are too short to touch from their respective knots. The ending is rather unsatisfying --the fate of the world or even of the main characters, isn't entirely clear and no real direction, hypothetical or otherwise, is clear. The society SAR depicts was awful to start with and it will seem to continue in that direction, which seems somewhat at odds with the series' hopeful tone. This seems to be the case due to sloppy writing rather than an intentional artistic choice. What is Teacher's ultimate role in a world that thinks nothing of him, and to which he can contribute very little due to the nature of his predicament? What of the two warring gods who cause the events of all the series? What does he think about that conflict, and what does his journey really say about it? I was plagued by the "so what" question a lot by the end of SAR. Teacher's individual story is one thing, one of a good man trying to do good in the face of immense guilt, but Nagabe is clearly trying to say something larger about discrimination, propaganda, religious dogma and indoctrination, and the destructive path paranoia and moral panic takes on a culture and its members. These points are critically abandoned and lost in focus by the end. So ultimately neither the characters nor their world get sufficiently clarified.Nagabe is quite a talented artist and writer, and you can see a lot of that talent here. I recommend reading through SAR if you can do it relatively cheaply, especially the first three-fourths. Volume 9 probably would have been a better end, even at the risk of bad pacing. The art style is still amazing and it has seeds of good worldbuilding and character development planted--they just never got the chance to fully bloom.

Absolutely amazing series, couldn't recommend it enough. However, when I ordered this book it arrived in less than adequate condition with the spine separating from the pages and knocked in corners. You would be better off going to your nearest Barnes and Noble or other book store to pick it up in person to eliminate this risk

Good price. This purchase was a gift and the person loved it.