{"id":539,"date":"2007-06-23T19:11:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=539"},"modified":"2007-06-23T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T19:12:40","slug":"lagoon-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/23\/lagoon-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagoon Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lageng.jpg\" alt=\"Lagoon Engine\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Yukiru Sugisaki<\/strong> (Tokyopop)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-59523-359-7<\/p>\n<p>Good old fashioned supernatural action and hi-jinks is what this adventure for older kids promises and delivers in a lively manner. Yen and Jin Ragun are schoolboys with all the pressures that entails but they also have a family duty to perform. They are the latest generation tasked with the banishing evil spirits, ghosts and demons whenever and wherever they might rear their scary, disembodied heads.<\/p>\n<p>As a premise for adventure it ranks between <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> and <strong>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/strong>, with plenty of sibling squabbling, homework and friend tensions, not to mention lots of action. But Yukiru Sugisaki is not afraid to blend a little pathos and sensitivity into the mix and the result makes for a much more complete read.<\/p>\n<p>Although I found some of the attention to explaining the rules of magic under which the brothers must labour a little long, dry and extraneous, not to say a bit reminiscent of learning all the rules of Pokemon Duelling, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s not necessarily the case for the target audience, and even so the drama, pace and character interplay still made this a pretty good way to spend an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2002, 2005 Yukiru Sugisaki. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Yukiru Sugisaki (Tokyopop) ISBN: 1-59523-359-7 Good old fashioned supernatural action and hi-jinks is what this adventure for older kids promises and delivers in a lively manner. Yen and Jin Ragun are schoolboys with all the pressures that entails but they also have a family duty to perform. They are the latest generation tasked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/23\/lagoon-engine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lagoon Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}