The plot is eventually clarified as concerning the protection of Japan from unimaginable evil by a secret organisation no-one’s heard of until now, with the necklace Yukio stole integral to that. The bantering dialogue between Wolverine and Yukio that opens Soultaker is forced and expository, just not the way people speak, and this lack of sophistication continues throughout. What Wolverine discovers is that the necklace has great significance for a pair of twin sisters, each with their own ninja protection.Īkria Yoshida’s story has the ring of authentic manga about it, but with the some of the leaps of faith that sometimes requires. It’s the hope of seeing Amiko that prompts his visit to Japan, but there’s the complication of an ancient mystical necklace stolen by Yukio. Wolverine has a complex relationship with Japanese thief Yukio, and is an adoptive, although largely absent, father to her now teenage daughter Amiko.
