The Shy series is part of the rereading of the superheroic myth. Centered around a shy heroine suffering from impostor syndrome, the manga captivated us from the first boxes of its first volume. Thanks to her sense of storytelling and staging, author Bukimi Miki builds an exciting plot where scenes of everyday life and fight against an implacable enemy mix. This fourth volume confirms the full potential of this touching and impactful work.
The double life of superheroines
Shy, the Japanese superheroine and spirits his Russian alter ego are on the trail of Amalarilk, their dark enemy revealed during the first volume. Their investigation leads them to Russia, to the orphanage where Spirits grew up. Behind its casualness, it hides deep scars. That their enemy hopes to exploit by sending against her, her own reincarnated mother. A dramatic duel begins where our two heroines try to save the heart of their enemy. But nothing is simple in the lives of her fighters, especially in Shy's. Indeed, when she does not save the world, she must be a normal high school student and build in parallel her career as a superheroine. Between interviews to look after her image and outings with friends to pass for a young lamba girl, her days are exhausting. And as fate likes to threaten this precarious balance every day, our heroine no longer knows which saint to devote herself to to keep her superheroic identity secret.
Shy Volume 4: The Nemesis Comes Out Its Claws
A good action series relies on a quality villain. However, this volume brilliantly closes a first story arc (started at the beginning of the series) centered on the discovery of the Amalarilk threat. Indeed the author iconizes this adversary. Not very present visually, his shadow constantly hovers around our characters. This graphic rarity gives it all its strength. It is also based on a striking drawing mixing the codes of shonen and comics. And on the narrative that distills the pieces of a huge Machiavellian plan. 
The author also sets up a whole mythology of evil that comes in counterpoint to those of our heroes. Amalarilk is a tutelary figure, Stigma, but also servants, rogue superheroes of which only their number is known to us. This true octopus is revealed volume after volume at the end of spectacular confrontations, initiatory trials worthy of Saint Seiya. This opponent also relies on a strong symbolism. On the one hand that of the perverted soul source of their powers. On the other side, that of the rings insisting on the Faustian pact between the servants and their master.
Action and humor an explosive cocktail
This volume offers readers two very different atmospheres. The beginning indeed offers a high-intensity fight. Confronted with their fear, our heroines experience the difficulties of their mission. If winning is easy for them, how can they succeed in defeating without destroying? Their confrontation leads them on the paths of redemption, of healing. Knowing that all success implies a loss, a renunciation. The narrator transports the reader into a whirlwind of emotions, heartbreak. That's why the lighter tone of the second part is welcome. After the drama, the comedy of everyday life resumes its rights. She is carried by a Shy always as endearing by her fragility and her desire to do well. The story thus flirts with high school comedy. Through beautiful scenes with a sometimes offbeat tone, we witness the great permanent gap between the life of heroes and that of a "normal" girl. And when a pickpocket makes his own, a whole internal debate agitates our characters. 
Shy The bright future
This fourth volume finally enriches all the mystery surrounding the universe. The answers it provides indeed raise new questions. Who is Sigma? Where do his powers come from? Why such hatred? The reader is eager to learn more about this evil spirit. Especially since the series promises new expansions embodied by its close guard. A formidable elite that has already given our heroines a hard time. Which undoubtedly will have to appeal to the other heroes of the Earth that the story has not yet presented. This volume also ends with the arrival of a new "normal" character. Its sensational entrance is at the height of what it reveals. Shy must therefore engage in a more than complex case ignoring the identity of this person who is imagined to be dealing with unsavory elements of society. Everything is there to make our heroine's high school life even more impossible. With this fourth volume, Shy continues to enchant us. Variation of tone, rich universe, endearing characters, this opus pursues a flawless narrative and visual. A nugget to discover without further delay at Kana editions.
