As soon as I started this book I noted glaring flaws inside of it. I really enjoyed the first Volume of Star Wars: Episode 1 Manga so I couldn’t understand why I enjoyed this book so much less and found so many more flaws within it, I’m unsure if possibly the illustrator or author just got bored with the project and rushed to finish or not, or something else as another reason to why this book was such lesser and lower quality of writing than the first. However there were still many items to enjoy in this book, including: the depiction of Jabba the Hutt and the gong scene in the beginning of the Podrace, the slight alteration of Qui-Gon’s line to Shmi about Anakin’s chances of becoming a Jedi, the depiction overall of Shmi’s outfit from head to toe, the depiction of the scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Anakin for the first time, the way the Jedi Council’s scenes were laid out to feature each known member of the Council at that time including lesser known members such as Yareal Poof, Oppo Rancisis, Even Piell, Depa Billaba, Eeth Koth, and Yaddle, including the large panoramic scene of the Council featured in the center of the two page span, Yoda’s character depiction, the Senate scenes with Queen Amidala and Palpatine looking just like the movie’s scenes, the artwork of the scene when Queen Amidala calls for a vote of no confidence in Valorum,  Sidious’s hologram depictions, Captain Panaka’s character depiction/design, the design and detail of the Queen’s white outfit with the pearl accents, all of the variety of Amidala’s outfits and the details put into them, the female characters (especially Padme) and also Anakin’s eye design, Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi’s character depiction and hair/eyebrow design, Boss Nass’s outfit design, the “textured” look of the skin of all Gungans, Captain Tarpals, Jar Jar and Boss Nass’s character depictions, Sabé’s red and black outfit’s contrasting colors, the maroon handmaiden outfit depiction, the scene art of the group kneeling before the Gungans, the Gungan Kaadu’s designs, all of the main character group shot scenes, the depictions of the Droid Tanks and Battle Droids, the Lightsaber Blade Thinness and Hilt Depictions, the Duel of the Fates scenes (especially the facial expressions of the key players), Obi-Wan’s facial expression reaction to Qui-Gon’s death, how child Anakin looked in piloting goggles, and the design of the Jedi Robes worn by Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. Some of the things I did NOT enjoy, however, included the fact that Anakin’s Podracer’s Sabotage scene with Sebulba was left out, the depiction of Senator Palpatine’s face seemed inaccurate to me, the face was far too aged and the chin and nose too large, Mace Windu’s depiction looked too young for his character at this time, some of Obi-Wan’s facial expressions, such as surprise, were too far overexaggerated, there were too many face close-ups as scenes used in this book (such as eye or mouth close ups), and some of the depictions of Maul make his face and head look fatter than they should be. I also thought lots of text in the bubbles in larger portions and servings compiled together made it more difficult and harder to read, as well as some of the lines were missing and skipping details and large sections/portions of the dialogue making it harder to understand and hard to read if you know the movie by heart. Also there was major confusion/unclearness about Qui-Gon’s death scene, and the book barely, if at all depicted Qui-Gon’s funeral scene, the images shown barely if at all made it clear that that was a funeral they were showing. Other times things are made so obvious that they’re captioned with words like “grab” but other times inconsistently the scenes are so unclear and confusing (2 occasions I can think of this happening on) that you can barely understand what has happened/what is happening. Especially the Battle Scenes are difficult to follow. However the book amazingly and phenomenally conveyed all of the sensitive emotions and great sadness and emotional pain over Qui-Gon’s death within, to me, only the one depiction/image of Padawan Obi-Wan holding Qui-Gon’s body. That one scene conveyed it all for me, even better than the movie somewhat. The ending scenes of the Naboo Celebration felt very brief and greatly shortened, with little to no emphasis put on the ending and overall resolution of the story. I did like how each main character for the ending was put side by side in panels in the depiction of the Celebration though. I did not like how the book ended with the last two panels being of the planet Naboo as seen from space. I thought the black coloring of the starscape did not represent the happy and hopeful ending of the story or even the mysterious aspect of it if that was what the designer was going for possibly. The book overall definitely seemed based around, assumed and appeared to be designed around expecting there to be Sequels to these Volumes (such as Episodes 2&3 in Manga like Episodes 4, 5 & 6 were made) but as far as I’m aware they were never made, even with the open-endedness of this book.