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GATSU



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:03 pm Reply with quote
That better be a damn good cliff-hanger for Monster 5, because it keeps jerking me around like Banana Fish.
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linlinchan



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:50 pm Reply with quote
Carlo,
Thank you SO MUCH for your Import this column. Much respect for reviewing something more off the beaten path, like Seizon, that basically has no chance whatsoever of being picked up here and little attention from the scanlation crowd.
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shamelessfanboy



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:15 pm Reply with quote
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Sure, Takeda's upset and all, but the guy needs to quit crying over his daughter every twenty pages.


Haha, so true. After reading each chapter in volume one I would stop and think, "wait, didn't he cry like this at the end of the the last three chapters, too?"
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Lyrai



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:43 pm Reply with quote
RTO wrote:
Del Rey got caught for a sneaky dialogue edit in Air Gear and Dallas Middaugh promised to un-edit the text in all future printings.


I missed this. What happened? I bought Air Gear 1 as soon as it hit the shelf.
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Patachu
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:56 pm Reply with quote
Lyrai wrote:
I missed this. What happened? I bought Air Gear 1 as soon as it hit the shelf.


http://forums.animeondvd.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1407553&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Whining starts on page 2 -- resolution on page 6.
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Kagemusha



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:27 am Reply with quote
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Meanwhile, Kawaguchi gets a little too caught up in the melodrama as well, relying on blocky paneling and stilted poses for pivotal scenes—there's even a classic "ghostly head in the sky" shot for maximum cheese. There's a great story being told here, but the way that it's told might not click with everyone.

Kawaguchi's art has always been a bit too rough for my taste. Similar style to Urasawa (to name just one artist) but not nearly as polished, even compared to some of the latters early work. Of course he is quite a talented storyteller, and even here where he doesn't have writing chores that shows through. As for the writing, it's also pretty old-school seinen in that it basically lacks any subility, but it still manages to be fairly compelling.
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Mohawk52



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:35 am Reply with quote
shamelessfanboy wrote:
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Sure, Takeda's upset and all, but the guy needs to quit crying over his daughter every twenty pages.


Haha, so true. After reading each chapter in volume one I would stop and think, "wait, didn't he cry like this at the end of the the last three chapters, too?"
Ah! The ignorance of childless youth. I hope Seizon gets licensed as I find it very compelling.
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Swissman



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:30 pm Reply with quote
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PROS:

The "older shounen" version of Japan's most popular urban legend is retro and modern all at once, going to the manga aesthetics of several years back to tell a love story for the digital age.

It's actually a seinen manga. Nitpick aside, your PRO points describe very well why the manga is good. One of the reason I like Hara Hidenori's manga is his ability to tell very real romantic stories which don't necessarly depend on simple gimmicks and character antics.

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What is with the huge foreheads on everyone? Okay, so Hidenori Hara is a veteran manga-ka with a knack for heartwarming romances—but still, I'm calling him out on his odd sense of character design.

I'm jused to his designs for so long now, I didn't notice it at all until you mentioned it. Hara once had a tendency to draw very long jaws in older manga. In recent series however he draws them more "normal".

Watanabe Wataru's art for the Red Champion version of Train Man is far more disturbing with those rectangular designs, faces with bug-eyes and lots of space between the eyes. His character design is meant to be moe, but it gives me nightmare 8O
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Patachu
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:37 pm Reply with quote
Swissman wrote:
It's actually a seinen manga.


I knew I was gonna get nailed for that one and I didn't realize my mistake until after I submitted the article.

I hate the target-audience categorization system. Laughing

I mean, how ironic is it that Young Sunday used to be called Shounen Big Comic?
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ACDragonMaster



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:11 am Reply with quote
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It's like, you think manga has some weird and crazy plots, and then real life happens.


That, is so true it's both sad and hilarious. Anime hyper
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rocklobster



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:35 am Reply with quote
Patachu wrote:
Swissman wrote:
It's actually a seinen manga.


I knew I was gonna get nailed for that one and I didn't realize my mistake until after I submitted the article.

I hate the target-audience categorization system. Laughing

I mean, how ironic is it that Young Sunday used to be called Shounen Big Comic?

Those categorizations aren't even genres, as far as I'm concerned.
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Bahamut God



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:31 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
... ,because it keeps jerking me around like Banana Fish.


*Snicker*
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