This solid adaptation is a great take on the impossible: visualizing Lovecraft's description of what is incomprehensible to man. Tanabe’s realistic style effectively illustrates the story in volume 1 (despite fairly plain character design) and goes on to a unique artistic vision for the more fantastical volume 2.
However, the manga suffers from its source material. Lovecraft was a master at description, tension and world building- but was prone to bland characters, stilted dialogue and long exposition dumps. Here, dialogue often reads as if it's irrelevant which character is speaking. Still, lines from the original work are selected effectively to efficiently move the plot forward.
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: 狂気の山脈にて ラヴクラフト傑作集 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 25
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 12, 2016 to Nov 10, 2017
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Oct 10, 2021
"It was a horror that a single screamed word of their voices had survived, echoing through unthinkable time, distorted, and mocked, and mocking; Takeli-li! Takeli-li!"
At the Mountains of Madness is my first dose of H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and I am now hooked. If I had to describe this manga in one word, it would be; fantastically weird. But wait, that's two words.. oh well. The story is about a team of scientists going on an expedition in Antarctica. But as you correctly guessed, everything goes terribly wrong when they find some ancient "specimens". In the beginning, I found it a bit slow, and it ... |
