Twin Spica Volume 12 is a manga by Kou Yaginuma, and it was published in North America by Vertical, Inc. in 2012. There isn’t any kind of rating printed anywhere on this volume, but I would personally recommend Twin Spica to manga readers who are 12 or 13 years of age and older.
Volume 12 is the final volume of Twin Spica, so Yaginuma is completely focused on wrapping up the story. In this volume it’s revealed who goes on to their final year in the Space School. It’s also revealed what happens to all the characters and what paths they end up going in.
For the most part, I liked what Yaginuma did in order to wrap up the story. There were, in my opinion, a couple of loose threads that remained at the end. In an “author’s note” at the end of the volume, Yaginuma himself admitted that there were some things he didn’t touch on (although they didn’t match what I felt hadn’t been resolved). He also encourages the reader to use their imagination to fill in the missing pieces.
There were three additional stories included in this final volume. The first is labeled as, “Three-Dimensional Spica.” In this story, Yaginuma is seen interacting with some of the characters in the Twin Spica series. All I can figure is that this story depicts some of the things that went through his head as he worked on the series; otherwise, it really doesn’t make much sense.
The other two stories are both labeled as “Another Spica.” In the first, Yaginuma is ruminating about the fact that he’s gotten older. The second serves as a kind of “author’s note.” Both of these provide an insight into the mangaka who created and wrote the Twin Spica series, as well as some of the things involved with working on the manga.
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