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With over 100 new Pokémon to capture, and the best features from the previous games being included, it is hard to argue that Diamond and Pearl are the most complete Pokémon games yet. The new and included features make them almost a must have for those already fans, as well as the best games to get started on if you are new to the Pokémon world and wish to know why so many people are playing it. Go Catch Them All!
However, as befits a series that has just completed its best, and in its own way most ambitious, story arc to date, just as much time is spent parsing out the effects of the events beneath Edo Castle as looking ahead. And while doing so, Immortal gets to spotlight its gentler side. All of this volume's most satisfying moments are of a calmer, sweeter sort than the tightly controlled cage match of the last two volumes. Doa an Isaku's goodbye falls under this umbrella, and the chapter-long nighttime chat between Rin and Manji is likely the happiest you'll ever get reading dialogue bubbles. Another pair—Anotsu and Makie—gets a brief but tender exchange between political maneuvers, and elsewhere the series' usually deadpan humor is allowed to get explicitly silly. If you listen you can almost hear the series pausing to take a few highly enjoyable breaths before muscling its way forward once more.
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