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February 23, 2009

Stray Dog

Filed under: One-Shots

One-Shot
Stray Dog

Stray Dog

Description: A warrior, plundering the people for money, finds a military dog, a creation that with the power of a dog and the intelligence of a human and takes the dog in as his own and becomes the dog’s master.

Genre: Adventure, Action
Author: Arakawa Hiromu
Artist: Arakawa Hiromu
Year: 1999

This one-shot is the first work piece by Arakawa, Full Metal Alchemist’s mangaka.

The main character, your usual strong, good guy, who’s just living without any higher objective, finds a Military Dog kid after fighting some thieves.

Military Dogs are created through magic and chemistry. They are "people" stronger than humans and more loyal than dogs.

Stray Dog

He frees the Dog but, he follows him everywhere. He ends up having to accept him and keeping him for himself.

Stray Dog

Although you can see in the little details that this manga wasn’t as worked as say Full Metal (maybe it’s just because the scanlation I got is crap), it’s very enjoyable and the humor we’ve come accustomed to in her other novels shows here too.

Stray Dog

Eventually, we learn that Fultac (the "hero’s" name) has a bounty on his head and that a bounty hunter is looking for him.

Fultac and Kilka’s relation is funny and enjoyable to see.

Stray Dog

The bounty hunter has a really strong Military Dog.

He finds Fultac and the battle begins. Bartley sends his dog to fight Kilka, it’s obvious she’s no match to him.

Stray Dog

Meanwhile, Fultac and Bartley get it on. The fight had some cool stuff, specially that "who told you a mage can’t fight?".

Now I’m not going into much more details on the plot, because I don’t wanna spoil it.

Stray Dog

Just know that some more stuff happens and there’s some unexpected revelations.

A really cool one-shot. Also quite big for a one-shot, will entertain you for longer. The art was very good too, almost at Full Metal’s level. And by reading this one-shot, you can also witness Arakawa’s first public demonstration of her fixation with "military dogs" lol.

Stray Dog

  • Personal Enjoyment: 5/5

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