It goes on and on, and the quality never fails. The trick is in the simplicity: everyone who's ever had a pet, recognizes the emotions.
Extremely good drawing. Extremely boring, gloomy script. Maybe I've read too many samurai manga lately, I've grown used to stories where there's actually something HAPPENING?
But there's something happening! It's more psycological than physical matter though.
Exactly, there is a lot of internal action and there is personal growth. Action isn't always moving around, fighting or arguing or burning stuff or etc.
I know, I know. But compared to samurai manga, I was merely talking about "visible" action.
Besides, even in a psychological story, I personally would make the script less static, by changing the camera standpoints, giving the drawings more dramatic intensity, tricks of the trade, you know. I would never make the same scene last for several frames or even pages, without so much as changing the setting. A Belgian publisher would consider that a capital sin in script-writing. That's what I mean. The drawings are totally awesome though. Except, for a real captivating comic, being able to draw beautifully pictures isn't enough. Right?
I get what you're saying. But not all directors work the same way. I've watched critically-acclaimed films that never changed much in setting or camera angle. I guess I don't mind it if other things engage me. If nothing engaged me, then I'd be, "Why don't they do this and that." But your criticism is often what an editor might recommend. :)
yeah, as long as the art's so good and it has fans, telling how you'd do it differently is not really meant as criticism. I 've noticed (mainly) the Korean stories are sometimes very static, and focus a lot more on rendering an atmosphere or a mood, rather than on action. The average Japanese manga is a lot more energetic and epic, with lots of storylines and subplots entertwining, while Korean mangaka seem to be content to make gorgeous images, and their readers don't ask for more than that. It could be because the characters of the mangaka differ, or the mentality of the publishers! I know for sure that if I were to present a story like this to a Belgian publisher, he'd tell me right away to go home and draw a story where there's actually something happening! And I'm pretty sure many Belgian kids, reading this story, would drop it after 2 pages and cry BOOOORIIINGGG!!!! Especially the boys...
I assume the principal audience for this is female. And the principal reading demographic for romances are female. I've read probably a thousand romance novels of all types, and many are static--lots of emotive thinking and lots of conversations between the he/she pairing. Perhaps this is why a static romanctic story doesn't disappoint me, as long as I get the emotional fix. Hence, my POV is different. Editors of romances don't look for action (unless it's suspense/thriller), but for emotion. Shoujo manga often have very, very little action, too. It could be that my affinity for romance (novels and manga/manwha) make me less sensitive to the lack of activity?
Well, it could be because you're a girl, ;-) , or because Belgian mangaka have it much harder finding an editor for their work, since there are very few editors and they're all mainly shonen type-minded, even seinen, if we're going to keep the Japanese terminology. Typical girls' stories are practically unknown, and yaoi is totally unexisting. In Japan, there are many more niche-publics: women, men, boys, girls, gay boys, gay men, little kids, every group in society has it's own stack of manga to choose from. In America, it's even more restricted: there's comedy Garfield-type, .... and superhero-stuff. In France, artistic comics are more successful; in Belgium an editor would send you away immediately. They know we have not much choice, since we HAVE to have an editor, if we want to be published, right? So we're condemned to adopt their opininons about genre and everything else. Regardless whether the readers agree or not.
At the start, I laughed so much my ribs hurt. Around the middle, I cried a river. It should've ended then, I think: when she got hit by the car. What followed became more and more far-fetched. The ending was quite ridiculous. Still, among the metamorphosis-genre, it's not too bad. I've read crazier ones...
Don't focus so much on the details and look at the great artwork! That mangaka uses pens and paint so well! The expressions are soo great! Can't you guys see that? I wonder about you, sometimes...
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This could become a lovely story, but it's only the beginning. We can't tell for now yet...
I think I'd rather wait for the coming manga chapters. This is a great artist. Especially the expressions on the face of that little girl are fantastic. You'd think that's easy, but it isn't. I wonder how this ends
Now that's watercolour painting! Chinese mangaka shouldn't try to imitate the Japanese ones, but instead make real Chinese type of work, like this! Beautiful!
Wow! After having read this, all other manga will look ugly and clumzily drawn. I'm totally spoiled for ever! This mangaka sure knows how to handle his pens and brushes...
Is there really nobody of you who has ever heard of sadomasochism? Better go and get some life experience, instead of reading stories that you're to immature to understand...
S&M usually comes from an agreement between two parties who were already interested in it, not manipulatively pushed onto the uke (who you can clearly tell did not expect this sort of outcome.)
No, you're talking about s&m as an erotic game. This is love story: 2 men who love one another, one cruel, one submissive. It's supposed to be real life: in reality, things rarely happen the way we expect. Although the cruel one allows guys to use and humiliate his lover, he hates them: he's jealous of them, for he loves his friend, and the latter loves him back, else he would leave. This is about passion, not about toy handcuffs and leather boots... But it's still a dominator/dominee-relationship. That's what I meant.
i don't understand the passion part
Passion is when love is really intense. That's why when somebody is tried for murdering his/her lover because the latter cheated on him or he thinks he did (Othello-wise), in Law this is called a "crime of passion". Love that's so heavy it becomes a matter of life & death.
Or did you mean the passion in this here manga? You can tell it's about passion because of the use of violent feelings like jealousy, anger, pain, self-sacrifice... that kind of thing. Love with a capital L, so to speak. Get my drift?
i see.....
Allright you, Yaoifangirl :-D
Know Othello? It's a supercool manga from 500 years ago. No yaoi, though... Boy & girl. But good.
Reading manga like this, you can't help but thinking Japan is probably one of the neatest places in the world for a little kid to grow up...