Review

La Esperanca, Vol. 4

by Chigusa Kawai

Everything gets more intense during the second half of the La Esperanca series. In the first half, the story would sometimes turn away from the main characters, Georges and Robert, to concentrate on some of their friends. This gimmick is now pretty much gone and Georges and Robert keep center stage.
 
So far the story has been about well-behaved Georges and badly behaved Robert, both of whom are drawn to each other. They also both have dark and secret pasts. Up until now that’s only been hinted, and with volume four readers start to find out the truth of what happened before. There are a fe