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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.