Initially, this follow-up seems to divert away from the formal tournament format of the God Selection Battle from the original in favour of a more linear set-up. Now, as I stated earlier, sequels often fall into two categories, and on this spectrum, Plus straddles the fence between the two. As the only one unaffected by the strange turn of events, it’s up to Ueki to sort the problem, which he must do by travelling to an alternate dimension filled with power users and release the memories stored within Wool – but first he needs to obtain a new ability of his own… Of course that peaceful life cannot last forever and on the day of their graduation ceremony, the entire population of the world has their recollections of those they care most about stolen from them and placed inside a bizarre sheep/dog creature named Wool. Their life since hasn’t changed all that much, though the green-haired boy has now lost his capacity to turn trash into trees and can no longer wield his sacred weapons, he still continues to stand up for his justice while Mori wibbles around as useless as ever. Plus picks up two years after the events of the first series as Ueki and Mori are about to graduate from middle school. However, as is the way of this world, things change and as soon as I read two little words at the end of volume one, I just knew that I couldn’t leave this franchise alone – “MOP PUNCH!” One thing that I WAS sure of was that I had no intention of actually reviewing this manga. Whether I liked it or not was not so obvious, since sequels are a bit of a dangerous area some simply repeat the format of previous successes and feel uninspired or dull as a result, whereas others simply lack that spark of the original and thus taint one’s adoration for the source material. Considering how much I loved the first Law of Ueki manga and the anime adaptation, I was bound to read the five-volume follow up, Law of Ueki Plus.
Life is full of inevitabilities and uncertainties.