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residentgrigo
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Here is my slightly touched up MU review and i can put it up on amazon in 2 weeks too. Nice. The manga is truly a slow burn as Rebecca points out so stick around and skip the show:
Itchy tasty (8,5/10) The series is firstly very good, employs a unique art style, has characters one can get behind and a steadily developing world. I also find the handling of gore (a bit like a french album) and minimal nudity interesting. Tons of messed up but always justified acts of violence happen to everyone (none are safe) but here is the kicker. The actual "gore" aspect is just out frame most of the time but instead we get to see detailed and agony filled close-ups of the victims and perpetrators faces or reaction shots from onlookers. Ah so many feels. I may love justified gore as much as any true seinen connoisseur to clarify but restrain is a lost art and Sui knows that language well. Best of all nearly everything has lasting consequences from deaths that stick to lasting darkness just under the smiles of the leads. There is further a lot of grey morality going on and the villains and anti-heroes all feel justified in their own way. A bit like the classic 10/10 Akira. The narrative itself starts of with a bang but settles down in a decent for a lack of words "shonen"grove (the series first small flaw) but then something Big happens around the middle, the series then gets a slight kick in the pants and kicks into high gear. I am not talking about an increase of action scenes by the way. A bit like Attack on Titan (8/10). Not much time is wasted thereafter and now to the second and final flaw. Most heroic characters are a bit too innocent or "clean" for lack of a better term to fit into their world or even ours. I don´t need a sex + drugs orgy by any means but it would be nice if the all the rather cute shipping would lead to more then longing stares for example. So no real flaws at all and my rating could go up a bit if the story stays strong. By that i meat the fact that RE isn´t a standalone sequel and more like a volume 15 (just like the pointless US-comics renumbering) but the short spin-off Jack is sadly a skip worth 5/10 mess. The same applies to the sadly rushed and changed anime adaptation. The happier parts of the manga remind me of Angel Densetsu (10/10), the action scenes and restraint of the highly heroic Claymore (8,5/10), the darker parts of Parasyte(10/10) and why not try the king of seinen Berserk (10/10) if you are at it. Sui´s latest work "The Penisman" (8/10) lastly proves that he isn´t a one trick pony as it is a sex comedy about cannibalism amongst other topics... Hm. |
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pachy_boy
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Assuming you'll keep reviewing this series volume by volume, I'll definitely be following them to the point where the manga's story diverges from the anime's, and find out by then if I'm curious enough to pick up the manga version. I didn't think the anime was "bad", but at the same time it felt like the story ultimately went nowhere, so at this point I'd rather play it safe before finding out how different the manga's direction will be.
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Princess_Irene
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That was my plan, as the series (anime) seems popular enough to warrant it. I also didn't think the anime was "bad," but I really like the pacing of the manga better, even if it can dwell on broodiness a little much. But then, if anyone's got the right to be broody at this point, it's Ken, so I probably should cut him some slack.
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DontmesswithKarma
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The anime is a complicated one. The best way to explain it is it skipped a lot. For example, Hide, Ken's love for books, they also cut out whole scenes from the manga to add in there own twists which did absolutely nothing to affect the story. Season 2 is also complicated, They skipped alot in that too, but they used the excuse of anime original to be able to skip it. For example when ken joined ATree what affect had it on the story? nothing. The ending of season 2 is the exact same as the ending of part 1 of the manga. They just cut things left right and center to make it a shitty experience, and not the mention that some of the things they skipped were more enjoyable and more important to the story. They ruined it to the point of no return. I suggest just picking up part 1 (volume 1 - 14) to see how different and more solid it is. The writing is much better and is actually quite fast paced. Just to show you how much they cut, TG season 1 did 76 chapters in 12 episodes, Assassination Classroom did less than 50 chapters in 12 episodes, and Ass Class is being adapted at around 4 chapters an episode. They cut out complete characters, development, even vital parts of the main characters personality. So in all honesty, it starts diverging from the manga at episode 3, since that is when they began cutting scene after scene |
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Utsuro no Hako
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Wow, the paperback version is only coming out now? Volume 2 has been available on Kindle for almost a month.
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KENZICHI
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I didn't know it was being released in English! Gotta buy FOR SURE!
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ETX
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Anyone know when Volume 1 will hit the UK?
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Realquick
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the e-books are released really early. Question, is rebecca reviewing volume by volume or coming back at volume 5? |
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Princess_Irene
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Given that two people have asked about volume-by-volume reviews, that's definitely my plan, unless I'm asked to do otherwise.
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Tylerr
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really hated the ending of this manga.
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0Ninjaz0
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hm. In my opinion it was great, I don't see why you'd hate it. The end of the arc left a thrilling transition to the next arc from my point of view. |
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residentgrigo
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When did the manga end again? (Vol. 14 was a real highlight.)
The only watched selected scenes form the anime and followed along with a pictured blog and season 1 seemed like a "decent" rush job with rather average animation and direction to me. The VA´s and music department did a good job though and i would be fine with it existing if the show stopped there and just lived on as a manga ad like Terra Formars, Blade of the Immortal or a 90s OVA as the well done Please Save My Earth but it went on... The manga though is way to successful (and good) to be given to the people who drove the Naruto anime creatively into the ground and season 2 is where thing really got off the rails as the story went on original tangents to then come back suddenly while skipping half the story and an even higher amount of characterization (the manga´s strong point). It is now set in another continuity.  And dat ending. WFT? Way worse adaptation exist but that is no excuse and i shake my head as a fan first and foremost. A friend of mine came of disappointed too and he never touched the manga. Madhouse or IG would have been the way to go.
Tokyo Ghoul:re get´s even more broody and i suggest that everyone should look up the award winning pilot to the manga as Ken is a villain protagonist in that one. What a twist! |
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Dayblack
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The important thing is that adaptation has the same plot of the manga (adaptation = change). The first season of tokyo ghoul has the same plot of the manga. But in the second season the plot is different from the manga; changed things make it impossible to connect Root A with RE. (at least they warned they would not follow the manga) |
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