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Mini-Goddess VII
Part three of Kosuke Fujishima's new Mini-Goddess strip, which is being published on the spine of montly issues of Afternoon. In case you missed any of the previous panels, you can find them all linked here.
CAPTION: CONTINUED ON THE NOVEMBER ISSUE!
LOL, another one that I didn't have to translate. Well, the punchline will be next month... Although I kind of think that this panel is the punchline.
There's no random manga page this week, sorry. The artwork was okay, but the real highlight of the story was that Welsper finally returned (yay!) and basically spent twenty pages walking around and being a complete asshole. Which is great, because without Aoshima around, there aren't nearly enough unmitigated asshole characters in this story arc. I mean, assholes bring comedy to the table. Amnesia is overused as a comedy plot device, but an assholeish character? Wins every time.
Oh, and in other news? I decided to check out the Baccano! manga, because Baccano! is awesome, and because I heard that the manga would focus exclusively on the second novel (the "Railroad Incident" plot), which is the best part of the saga.
All I can say is... wow.
I didn't know that it was possible to take a series that is so awesome and adapt it into a manga that's so awful. I mean, the artwork looks like it was drawn by an eight-year-old. The characters are impossible to distinguish, particularly the male characters. The action scenes are a mess of speedlines and barely-drawn figures barfed all over the pages. And the thirty pages of the manga that I read managed to take a really tense scene from the anime/novels - namely, Miria and Isaac standing up to the mobsters trying to take them hostage - and somehow managed to make it completely boring.
When Miria and Isaac are being boring, then you know that your manga sucks.
In short: I think I'll pass. I can barely read the novels (LOL anything written above a third-grade reading level, which is about my reading fluency in Japanese), and the non-linear narrative of the anime frustrates me, but... the manga is just too crappy for me to continue to subject myself to. Thirty lousy pages was enough. No more. No more!
I WILL give the manga credit for using the phrase "NONSTOP クライムアクション!!" in the Dengeki Comic Gao Table of Contents description blurb. クライムアクション = "climaction" or "climaxtion" (it's kind of hard to Englishfy, but trust me, the word is beautiful in Japanese). Oh, Japanese. I love you and your tendency to create beautiful portmanteaus from English words.
CAPTION: CONTINUED ON THE NOVEMBER ISSUE!
LOL, another one that I didn't have to translate. Well, the punchline will be next month... Although I kind of think that this panel is the punchline.
There's no random manga page this week, sorry. The artwork was okay, but the real highlight of the story was that Welsper finally returned (yay!) and basically spent twenty pages walking around and being a complete asshole. Which is great, because without Aoshima around, there aren't nearly enough unmitigated asshole characters in this story arc. I mean, assholes bring comedy to the table. Amnesia is overused as a comedy plot device, but an assholeish character? Wins every time.
Oh, and in other news? I decided to check out the Baccano! manga, because Baccano! is awesome, and because I heard that the manga would focus exclusively on the second novel (the "Railroad Incident" plot), which is the best part of the saga.
All I can say is... wow.
I didn't know that it was possible to take a series that is so awesome and adapt it into a manga that's so awful. I mean, the artwork looks like it was drawn by an eight-year-old. The characters are impossible to distinguish, particularly the male characters. The action scenes are a mess of speedlines and barely-drawn figures barfed all over the pages. And the thirty pages of the manga that I read managed to take a really tense scene from the anime/novels - namely, Miria and Isaac standing up to the mobsters trying to take them hostage - and somehow managed to make it completely boring.
When Miria and Isaac are being boring, then you know that your manga sucks.
In short: I think I'll pass. I can barely read the novels (LOL anything written above a third-grade reading level, which is about my reading fluency in Japanese), and the non-linear narrative of the anime frustrates me, but... the manga is just too crappy for me to continue to subject myself to. Thirty lousy pages was enough. No more. No more!
I WILL give the manga credit for using the phrase "NONSTOP クライムアクション!!" in the Dengeki Comic Gao Table of Contents description blurb. クライムアクション = "climaction" or "climaxtion" (it's kind of hard to Englishfy, but trust me, the word is beautiful in Japanese). Oh, Japanese. I love you and your tendency to create beautiful portmanteaus from English words.
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They finally finished cleaning the house, but Megumi is pissed because they couldn't figure anything out. She wants to go outside and get some fresh air, but isn't even sure which shoes are hers. Keiichi pops up and figures out which shoes are his, so the other pair of shoes must be Megumi's.
Then Megumi asks Keiichi why the hell there are only two pairs of shoes. Shouldn't those other three people have shoes? "How the hell did they get here? And what was that strange wind?" Megumi thinks that "they might not be human."
Belldandy, overhearing this, starts to angst. No, she doesn't have shoes. No, she might not be human. Then she asks herself pragmatically, "Why am I so upset at the thought that I might not be human?"
But Keiichi says that since Belldandy believed in him, he can believe in her. He tells Megumi to believe in them, too.
Megumi goes outside and wonders, "Why do I feel at ease when I look at him? What is he to me?" (Oh shit oh no ew don't go there---)
Then she sneezes and reaches into her back pocket for a tissue. She pulls something out of her pocket that makes her go "Oh? Oh?" (Looks like a wallet.)
Welsper returns, and observes that a) Banpei and Sigel's memories have been wiped and b) Skuld and Urd are fighting about having lost their memories. Belldandy and Keiichi comment about not knowing who they are. So Welsper decides to take advantage of the situation. He walks into the room and announces, "I know who you are!"
After much screaming and throwing of things, Keiichi and Company decide to accept that yes, a cat can talk, and yes, he can tell them who they are. Welsper tells Keiichi and Urd that they are lovers, tells Skuld that she is his servant, and tells Belldandy that she's his fiance.
Welsper then tells Belldandy to address him as "my beloved person." But Belldandy says, "I can't say that." Then the chapter ends with Welsper yelling "What did you say?!"
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