Red River Series Review
Red River by Chie Shinohara Overall Series Rating: ✰ Art: 3.5 Stars ✰ Story: 3 Stars Series Review: Red River's art is gorgeous and impressively consistent throughout all 28 volumes, but it has a distinctive 1980s–90s style. It is not my personal aesthetic preference, so I did not vibe with it, but I can objectively appreciate how well done it is. As far as the story is concerned, it is middling at best. I was almost desperate for it to be over by the time I got to the final volumes. The plot is redundant and unnecessarily drawn out into cyclic, mawkish events. Even when the pasts and motivations of the main antagonists come to light, their actions throughout the series still seem nonsensical. What I do love about Red River is its setting, historical details, and characters. Each of these elements is much stronger than the plot as a whole. I believe this is the only historical fiction I have read set so far back into the past. I love the historical facts sprinkled throughout th