Fire Emblem Hasha no Tsurugi is a manga i started reading after i found out Roy was in (as a big video game fan, i used to play Melee alot, and i ended up being probably the biggest roy fangirl ever) i can't say this manga was at all what i expected, i never played the original game for GBA, and even if i did, this is a side-story of the game, ive played some Fire Emblem games, and i can tell that this story is NOT how Fire Emblem games work, it's even better, even after getting completelly stabbed you can get healed and fight again, in the games you can't do that, if your HP drops you lose your character and end up reseting, there aren't any main/army characters that die, witch is what i liked most

Story: 10

The story is what really hooked me into this manga, A little 15 year old boy sets out on an adventure with a sword he inherited from his father, meets a guy whom he was enemies because of orders and they both end up saving a princess together, those three travel together looking for a mysterious medalion called the Crest of flames (Or fire emblem) witch leads them into many perils and funny adventure, now the begining of the story is pretty cliché'd, but despite that, i really enjoyed this manga

Art: 8

The art didn't wow me, it was good enough, but nothing exeptional, i like the art from the other story this artist drew better (The Sacred Blacksmith manga and This manga have the same artist) but the art is still very good.

Character: 9

The characters introduced at all amazing, i love every single one of them (EXEPT for that blue-haired Fire user..) what i DIDN'T like about the characters is the fact that there are practically NO character developement.. i mean even if it were a mini side-story of like 3 pages would be nice, we saw some other characters, such as Diek, Wolt and Fir, but we didn't really see enough of them to see what kind of personality they have, i can just tell fir is a serious fighter, but i can't say that for sure since i never played the acctual game, so character developpement is the only thing i really don't like

Enjoyement: 9

There are always new things that happen, like SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERafter the final boss we all think that's the end, but it isn't, the princess gets captured and the three fighters end up trying to save her SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER, the battle scenes were really enjoyable, plus in between the batles there were often funny scenes, what i didn't like is again the character developement, there is practically none.. nonetheless, still very cool

Overall: 10

For those looking for a good shounen story with awesome fights in midieval times, there's your choice, for those looking for shounen and love stories, don't come here, that's all i can say