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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
Joined: 08 Jul 2004
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Location: San Diego
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:02 pm
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here-and-faraway wrote: | Sorry no one's sent in reviews. I'll try to get going on a positive review for Love and Rockets (they can be for any comic right?) |
Well, it has to be reasonably "manga-ish" (and I'll be the final judge of that). I'm permissive (I mean, if Scott Pilgrim can qualify for World Manga of the Month...) but at the same time, I won't take just anything. To be honest, Love and Rockets probably falls outside of the range because the paneling and artistic presentation derives very little from the manga tradition (unless you can convince me otherwise).
I'd probably point to stuff like Oni Press or Becky Cloonan's work on "Demo" as the outside limit of what I'll allow artistically.
belvadeer wrote: | Is anyone going to send in their reviews of a manga they want everyone to know about? |
Are you?
Is this like that school thing where the teacher asks for a volunteer and everybody avoids making eye contact with anybody else because no one wants to be picked?
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RadicalHaruko
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
Posts: 13
Location: CA, USA
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:32 pm
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YEAH SCOTT PILGRIM IS AWESOME
I was so glad to see this here. That "I would punch your life in the face" line was hands-down my favorite in this volume. Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic timing is something we should all aspire to emulate.
WELL DONE.
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Ari-chan
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 215
Location: Florida
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:06 pm
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Wow, I should really try to take a look at Scott Pilgrim if I ever see it. It sound really fun. Also I'm glad to see a good reveiw for Shugo Chara. I'm in love with that series.
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here-and-faraway
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
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Location: Sunny California
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:39 pm
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Quote: | I won't take just anything. To be honest, Love and Rockets probably falls outside of the range because the paneling and artistic presentation derives very little from the manga tradition (unless you can convince me otherwise). |
Nope. I don't think I could. Love and Rockets is definitely an American comic.
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Aromatic Grass
Joined: 31 Dec 2003
Posts: 2424
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:51 pm
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Wow, so much love for Scott Pilgrim? And I've never heard of it... I guess that means I should pick it up?
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37wallflower73
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
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Location: Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:55 am
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Wow, I've never even heard of Scott Pilgrim either......I'll be checking him out too ^_~
As for Mushishi, is it really that great? I think I'm gonna have to start buying it, the reviews so far have been really good. Just want to know I'm not wasting my money, like I did with Absolute Boyfriend.....I got really sick of that serie.
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marie-antoinette
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:27 am
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Scott Pilgrim sounds interesting, after learning more about it in Shojo Beat I think I will put it on my list to check out. Your and My Secret also looks like it could be interesting and is worth checking out at least (though I am concerned about how long it is, because the premise could become REALLY drawn out, like I found it was with W Juliet, which of course is not the same plot but it reminds me of it nonetheless).
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Cloe
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:20 pm
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Aromatic Grass wrote: | I guess that means I should pick it up? |
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Anime World Order
Joined: 05 May 2006
Posts: 389
Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:03 am
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here-and-faraway wrote: | I'll have to check out Phoenix. |
Excellent. Someone who read that review has, as a result of reading said review, decided to consider checking out Phoenix. I am therefore marking another notch in my "wins" column!
I was debating whether to write about Phoenix or Golgo 13, since the latter's RTO! coverage was only a few sentences long and received a C grade when it was reviewed a couple years ago (even Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne got a C+!). In the end I went with Phoenix since I already wrote a totally awesome piece about Golgo 13 in Issue 5 of Otaku USA (ON SALE NOW *cheap plug*). I'm not quite certain why more people aren't writing in to RTO! with reviews, but in my case it's much harder to condense my thoughts on something down to 300-400 words than it is for me to ramble on forever in semi-intelligible fashion. Still, if nobody else submits anything, then they'll be FORCED to run whatever I send in, which knowing me will probably involve Ryoichi Ikegami artwork.
Without having read a single page worth of it, if I had to think of anything that would be "evidence against" Scott Pilgrim, it would have to be "the people who loudly tout the superiority of Scott Pilgrim over everything else ever made and/or try to claim that their lives are similar to that of Scott Pilgrim's." I'm sure the comic is just fine, but these fans--the only ones I ever seem to encounter--are making me not want to read it. Call it a personality defect on my part.
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slickwataris
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: Carol Stream, Illinois
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:11 pm
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Rose Hip Rose- $10.99? Why? I'll buy it after I finish Rose Hip Zero.
Mushishi- I forgot to cancel my order on rightstuf and this popped up in the mail last week. I find it extremely repetitive.
Scott Pilgrim- It seems the bookstores in the area are finally getting this in stock. Great series.
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ArielTsuki
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:59 pm
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marie-antoinette wrote: | Your and My Secret also looks like it could be interesting and is worth checking out at least (though I am concerned about how long it is, because the premise could become REALLY drawn out, like I found it was with W Juliet, which of course is not the same plot but it reminds me of it nonetheless). |
Don't worry. I read the Japanese releases (which one volume takes 18 MONTHS to come out...) and I looks it would end either at next volume, Volume 5 or Volume 6 in 2010.
I disagree that the first chapter felt rushed, really. I don't think you can jump in a wacky and surreal situation any better without drawing it out. I don't think there's no better reason of why it happened because Nanako's mad scientist grandfather is a really mad (and lazy) scientist who's willing to experiment on his only granddaughter. Plus the experiment was a failure in the first place (the machine was supposed to shrink the subject). What I like about it is that Akira is still a boy, despite his feminine ways, after the switch while Nanako embraces the joys of being a guy (and has utter disregard for using Akira's body).
It gets interesting later on when (EXTREME SPOILER) Senbongi, Akira's best friend, finds out about the switch. And the review doesn't have to worry about Akira and Nanako changing back soon, they're still in their switched bodies as of Volume 4.
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belvadeer
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:34 pm
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Well Patachu, I do have some manga I want to review, but I'm afraid everyone won't be interested.
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