I thought Dogsred was about sports but I found myself laughing too often while reading it, so either I am not right in the head or this is a comedy first, sports-story second.. I never laughed this much when I was still participating in organized sports, but then again I also never had to worry about bears during training. Since the team is still very much in training montage mode in this volume, I can see how this may not appeal to some people. I hope readers give it a chance since I've been this entertained and the team haven't even played a regular season game yet.

This was another interesting installment of this hockey manga series and this book dealt with the training the team is doing to weed out the weak since there is only 30 allowed on the official team. Man, this volume was only over 2 days and they trained for 12 hours consistently without water. Poor guys where just falling over when they were done and there was even more hockey lingo that was explained to me while reading. I got a little lost with keeping the two rival teams and there members apart but can’t wait to read the next volume.

Thanks to Viz Media and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.

I think I liked this volume better than the last one but I really can't get over a few things. #1, Coach Nihei would never get away with the kind of training. I'm pretty sure he is a sadist. #2, I hate the way the author draws some of the mouths. They look like old time racist illustrations of Black people and it's icky. #3, this volume did nothing to dispel my belief that this should have been a BL. I have never seen more phallic shaped "logs" ever, anywhere. That being said, the story is progressing well although there wasn't much going on between Rou and Keiichi. There is some genuine humor throughout. I still think the hockey explanations distracting to people already familiar with the sport but I get why they are there.