

The art in Warriors is clean and easy to follow but detailed enough to be interesting. Then they hit the road again, but when they arrive at their destination, they realize that it has been despoiled by humans and is no longer home to Graystripe's clan. Through observation, courage, and a kind cross-species gesture, Millie and Graystripe break down the hostility between cats, dogs, and humans and induce everyone to get along. In the second volume, Graystripe and Millie end up on a farm where the owners and their dogs are hostile to cats, and the barn cats live in fear, afraid to go out during the day. Eventually, Graystripe decides that he must make the journey back to his old home, and after some delay, Millie decides to join him. The one bright spot is Millie, a pampered housecat who befriends Graystripe and takes him to the wild fringes of their neighborhood. Everything about his environment reinforces that-the sameness of suburban yards, the noisy machines that menace him from either side, and the mean neighborhood cat that bullies him.

Graystripe enjoys the comfort and affection in his new home, but his warrior self chafes at confinement, and he fears he is losing his fighting and hunting skills.

These two volumes are the first two-thirds of a trilogy telling the story of Graystripe, a warrior cat who was separated from his clan and taken in by a human family in the novel Dawn.

On the contrary, with their clear, linear art, simple storyline, and short length, the manga appear to be targeted at younger readers than the novels. The manga tell new stories about the characters in the novels, and it's not necessary to read the novels to enjoy the manga. But will Graystripe ever find his way back to the Clan?Įngaging Characters, Simple Storyline, and Lovely ArtĮrin Hunter's Warriors series of fantasy novels is like catnip to sixth-graders, so it's not surprising that HarperCollins and Tokyopop teamed up to create manga based on the series. When he makes friends with a feisty kittypet named Millie, she encourages him to go in search of his lost friends. The forest is calling him, and he never stops longing to go home. When the Twolegs destroy the warrior Clans' forest home, Graystripe?second in command of ThunderClan?is captured trying to help his comrades escape! Trapped in the pampered life of a kittypet, Graystripe has all the food and shelter he needs from his affectionate Twoleg family, but this is not the way he wants to live.
