Forum - View topicREVIEW: Shoulder a Coffin, Kuro GN 1
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Shadowrun20XX
 Posts: 1935 Location: Vegas |
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Cat girls you say?Heh,yeah I've smelled my fair share of decent manga too.I'll have to check this one out.I need to add more manga to the collection anyway.I'm down for the artwork.Plus it doesn't hurt to add more coffin wielding freaks to the fold.
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Great Rumbler
 Posts: 327 Location: Oklahoma |
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You can put me in the camp that loves it. I picked it up last weekend and I'm already counting down the days until volume 2 comes out.
Kuro reminds me of Kino's Journey in that a mysterious traveler and her companion[s] travel to various places in a world caught somewhere between fantasy and quasi-reality. Kuro doesn't have the same philosophical bent, though, rather focusing on more fantasy elements. Being told in a non-linear format makes the comparison even more apparent. |
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Moe is all right for most the time, but I am not sure I'll check this series out.
However the 4koma style may or may be the best choice for the series though. Great review though. Maybe this will be a funny comedy perhaps? |
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HellKorn
Posts: 1669 Location: Columbus, OH |
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Y'know, I thought that moe is supposed to inspire parental feelings for the characters, or somethin' like that? Whenever I read Yotsuba&!, I don't think, "Aww, I'd like to protect to her" or some bull like that -- I think, "Ha, that's cute."
And I HATE moe. Yotsuba&! appeals to a far, far greater demographic of people -- including those that, like myself, dislike moe-oriented anime and manga -- so pigeonholing it as a "moe book" doesn't work (it's like some inane claim that The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya can only appeal to anime-otaku). (For that matter, since when has "moe" replaced "cute" in the vocabulary of English-speaking anime/manga fans? Ugh.) Anyhow, fairly solid review overall. The first two paragraphs' positions seem odd to me; the aforementioned Yotsuba&! comment, and the fact that somehow a story needs an actual plot (there is a difference) in order to be good is something I've never understand (give me a great story with little to no plot over a story with a poorly conceived and executed plot). The 4Koma aside also strikes me as a continuing rejection of anything that doesn't have a cohesive plot (does no one read the good newspaper strips!?). However, all that considered, the rest of the review seems more grounded in tackling the actual manga. Just going by the cover there is no way in hell I'd rate the art as "A-," but whatever. Sadly, beyond from the Haruhi Suzumiya novels, nothing from Yen Press really interests me. |
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artemiy
 Posts: 29 Location: LI, NY |
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I dont think this manga deservs D for story as well as A- for art. Buying it was a right decision and it's not only about it's art and even about it's smell (?). I bought it from Borders where almost all the kids already put their hands on it to read it.
Comenting about smell was just rediculous. Couldnt you just say "dont read it. Just sniff it and look at it"? Anyway while reading i was really intrigued by story as well as art. 4-koma style never gave me problems. It was easy to follow and interesting to discover Kuro's story little by little. |
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