So so.

사일런트 뫼비우스 1
아사미야 키아 지음 / 서울미디어코믹스(서울문화사) / 1998년 10월

Each of these stories has promise, but I believe each falls short of truly fleshing out the characters and making the reader care about what happens to them. Just when one of the women seems about to come into her own, Asamiya undercuts her development with some whining from the heroine or lousy one-liners from the villain at hand. Rather than taking the time to really explore their inner feelings, the author keeps thrusting them into the half-hearted action. The only exception to this is a three page sequence between Yuki and her nemesis, the fellow ESPer Annie.

There are some real clunkers of dialogue here as well, but I don't know whether to fault the author or the translator. In a key scene where Grospoliner reveals to Katsumi that she is the descendent of spirits like the ones assaulting Tokyo, where her entire sense of who she really is gets thrown into question, she replies: 'Your story gives me mixed emotions.' Is that supposed to be sarcasm, or understatement, or just plain old-fashioned bad writing? Such cheesy lines might be more forgivable if the action or comedy were more enthralling.