Forum - View topicREVIEW: The Ghost and the Lady [Hardcover] GN 2
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AyanamiRei
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Does this "hardcover" mean the tomes have a solid cover like the Gundam The Origin from Vertical?
It's unfair: France has started the series with the Spring-heeled Jack story, and the book is nice but not as good as a hard-cover one would be... (well, I suppose an english version of The Ghost and the Lady may be better to keep the "french in the text") |
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Merxamers
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This manga was so, so good. This is definitely one I would recommend to people who don't necessarily like manga; the art, historical context, and story are all that engrossing. It doesn't hurt that the physical hard cover editions are very nice as well.
We need more historical fiction manga like this one. In my opinion, good historical fiction makes you want to learn more about its subject, and boy am I more interested in Florence Nightingale now. Lastly, I love the art in this. Like the Ushio and Tora anime, the style feels so classic in a way that feels organic. I don't know what year Ghost and the Lady came out, but every page feels like it was done by hand in intricate detail, which is pretty rare now. Most other series are mostly done digitally, which can make manga art seem homogenous and interchangeable.
That's actually a very good comparison. The hardcovers are dense, and look great on a shelf Last edited by Merxamers on Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Andrew Cunningham
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Ghost and the Lady came out pretty recently, serialized 2014-2015. I'm hoping all his stuff gets translated someday!
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the green death
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I just bought the first volume digitally in Bookwalker's Kodansha sale. I haven't read ipast the first ten pages but had assumed it was an older series because the art was so classic (and IMO great), amazed to read it's just a few years old.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Fujita's been drawing for 27 years, but honestly, he's always had a style all his own. One of those people who didn't come up through the system but just started drawing and went with it.
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whiskeyii
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I honestly can't remember if you're the poster who recommended this to the last Ghost and the Lady thread, but there's an episode that's part of a show looking at how a series of mangaka all do their work, and Fujita certainly has a unique process.  He actually works on a splash page in and the cover of volume 1 of The Ghost and the Lady in his episode: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y7htn_urasawa-naoki-no-manben-manga-documentary-s1e2-2015-fujita-kazuhiro-english-subs-720_creation
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Andrew Cunningham
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That wasn't me, but I've been meaning to watch that.
Fujita did do a really cool thing at the end of his last weekly series, Moonlight Act. He took the last few pages of the volume and introduced every assistant he'd had on the series, including the pages they'd drawn for him. Like some pretty spectacular splashpages were done entirely by an assistant who stepped up and knocked it out of the park. Made me wonder how much that happens and goes uncredited. |
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Kadmos1
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At least many manga volumes have the decency to list the assistants. Comics, particularly American, do have a history of credit-hogging. Look at what that jerk Bob Kane did to Bill Finger (who only recently got official credit in the comics and movie) with Batman. |
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