The Fighting Distracts From the Awful Family Reunion

That's the sort of comment you save for at least the third date/fight, creepo.

I went by the store I bought volume 1 of Shaolin Sisters from last month, but they didn't have volume 2. I bought volume 3, anyway. The trio of sisters still aren't on the same page. Well, they're all chasing Bai Wang, who stole Seilin's bell, or Drake, who stole the other two, that pretty much constitute all their deadbeat kung-fu father gave them, but they aren't working together. Julin and Kalin must have convinced their pirate queen big sis not to kill them, but Seilin's not interested in a team-up.

Bai Wang's got other concerns, as some mysterious dude named Drake shows up riding a giant snake with crow wings. That's nifty, if likely to be an ecological disaster. Her lineup of '80s arcade beat 'em up characters manage to kill the creature eventually, and Bai Wang handles the other guy with, I think, an energy beam. Maybe the old Special Beam Cannon, the art's still a little vague and reliant on reader interpretation at times. Kakinouchi really likes panels of alternating light and dark sheets or radiating lines coming directly at the reader. I'm not sure it's the best approach.

Drake turns out to be someone thought dead in volume 1, possibly under mental control, and retreats, everyone on his tail. Julin and Kalin get stuck fighting Nini the Nun (is that the worst name of the four, or is it Shino the Able?), and Seilin runs into Kuichi the Dog, who, based on the panel at the top, has no concept of personal boundaries.

And then it turns out none of the girls are really up to the challenge. Even with the advantage in a handicap match, Julin and Kalin are losing, and Seilin is unable to actually shut up the creep she's fighting. She has to get bailed out by the last second arrival of someone called "Shark". Guess it's better than "Tank."

I dunno, I feel like it's not great the alleged main characters of your story can't even handle the sub-boss. They're not even the main villain herself (assuming Drake's boss doesn't turn out to be the main bad guy), but her lieutenants, you know. Make them tough wins, sure, but give 'em something. 

Maybe once they have their bells back, and actually work as a team it turns around. Whole greater than the sum of the parts and all that, but this is volume 3, and there's only two more after this, so it's not like there's a whole lot of time for them to level up.