There's totally a T-Rex in this volume!
In this volume, several demon animal things infiltrate the school by possessing the bodies of students, and most of this volume involves Yumi and two of the student council members trapped in the library without their cats (thus, unable to fight) with a girl possessed by a spider demon. Outside of the library, Kansuke encounters an enemy as well (a werewolf-ish fellow) before trying to go after Yumi.
It's about as enjoyable as the first volume. With introductions out of the way, it's right down to business, and the business with the spider girl ends up taking the whole volume. The one thing that bugged me about the first volume is that they dropped this whole team on us, the student council, but we didn't really get to know them that much. But judging from the last story in the first volume, which focused on Kotori, and this volume, which focused on Akifuji and Tsukasa, we'll learn more about them and their powers as they each get their turn at bat. But until then, they're kind of just background people. By the end of the second volume, there should have been decent screentime for the whole group, but there wasn't, really.
But, this volume is still a good time. Even without their powers (until later in the volume), the action is still pretty suspenseful. I could see Tsukasa's power coming from a mile away because of something that happens early on, but I wasn't quite expecting it to manifest in the way it did. I loved that the characters' reactions were exactly the same as mine when the T-Rex appeared; I said "What the hell?" and then saw the spider was saying it too...it made me laugh. So that was fun. The new characters, the group of possessed students, are an interesting addition as a sort of rival group to the heroes. Each one is a different animal (spider, wolf, snake, etc.).
The art is as solid as last time, with some cool action shots throughout. I want to see more of the cast in the next volume, and also hope they don't spend the entire next volume on one enemy. Not there's anything wrong with that, just that there's only three volumes left!
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