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Feb 18, 2024
The manga opens with these two boys who fix, modify, sell mainly electric guitars but sometimes it happens that they will also have to fix acoustic guitars, Tsutomu Takahashi's line is very full of hatching but diversifies a lot between males and females, while the former have a very dirty hatching, the latter have a cleaner and more delicate hatching, see also the cover. The protagonists are the guitars and the stories that they manage to build when they are held by people, it is a very technical manga where you still manage to be entertained even though you don't understand anything about guitars or
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80s rock music (as happened to me too if I have a general smattering of rock), between the pages of the manga the author pours out all his passion for music and the same is used in the story to recall memories and emotions or joy for life itself. It's a shame that the author is very into the release of the volumes but to create each volume, the author must use his knowledge of music thoroughly and continually do research on that particular guitar, which is why it's so slow.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 3, 2023
What I have to say about this comic is ART, the protagonist meets various characters taken from works exhibited in the Louvre, writers who in the East and West are known for having written about Western painting, and the painters themselves, in this sort of way between dream and reality where the protagonist enjoys the company of these characters who, in their own way, give their own version of art in general, dwelling on reflections and considerations that each character makes on a specific topic always inherent in the Louvre. I didn't know many of the things I read in the comics, also because I
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have an almost low foundation in art history by studying it for only three years; many Japanese have come to Italy to study painting with famous and non-famous painters, since the oriental style is very different from the western one. Jiro Taniguchi in this work gives shades of watercolor and pastel, as far as the drawing is concerned, his stroke is recognizable, more delicate than other works by the author, it goes well with the whole work, not to mention the format of Rizzoli Lizard, a little awkward to carry around but essential to fully enjoy all its nuances.
The beginning of the story is that simple, Much simpler than usual almost that the author is disinterested, much more interested in the dream journey and the conclusion.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 3, 2023
Volume 1:
I start by saying that this comic does not want to pretend to be understood as a deep manga with an intricate plot, and very simple and already seen but not monotonous. The protagonist is a boy who tries to defeat the bully who torments him, a bully who has the facade of a model student. So the protagonist finds himself fighting alone against the bully and the sequel or almost, someone has noticed this thing, a classmate who tells him that she knows and is with him. By now the boy is tired of the constant abuses, searches the internet for ways to
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defeat the bully, when he receives strange coordinates, waiting for him is a blonde girl... I must say that I liked the design, very clean and I mean that some are very caricatured and almost Trashy, like a monster you see in chapter 3, even if it was contextualised. Too bad there are only two volumes, it has good foundations for being a fun manga and with not the best actions but an "it's so bad, it's so good". This volume shows that the author wanted to set up a story with counter flakes but something is not square.
I give the volume a 6.5.
Volume 2 :
In this volume I saw many things that made me smile, for example the fact of the criticism, I don't know if it was intended or not, but the way the story went, it was as if the author would have done it out of spite towards the reader has discredited the work, in the tables I see many references to American action films and various references to films such as Hannibal Lecter or A Clockwork Orange. The entire manga oozes action from every pore, even more than the first volume, the author's intention was to focus on both the SWAT team element (the Sixbullets look like real SWAT teams) and the Sci-Fi / paranormal, with this presence who uses unfortunate people with big problems and a lot of grudges, for themselves or for someone, and the variety of both monsters (which in this volume are slightly improved) and the variety of weapons available, these are the merits of this Opera. The flaws are The characteristics of unmaintained secondary characters, for example Motode who during the Action Phases is cold and calculating just like a weapon and when in the normal version she is shy and awkward and in the final chapter to a normal attitude even if you Yua Kuraki finds in action the same thing that from one of the first volume, she's annoying and always in the last chapter she almost gets familiar... things that make me turn up my nose because the author doesn't dissect the two characters.
I believe that this series had the potential to be read, not a masterpiece but at least arouse emotion for those who like Call of duty guns.
In conclusion I give a 6.6 out of 10 to the entire series because I don't consider it a moderate series but not even 6 because I think it entertained me more than enough, not only for the "hypertopic" co-star (who admit it is hypertopic), but for the context that the author awkwardly tried to explain to us.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 3, 2023
The story starts with a man of Japanese origins finding a woman who has just given birth and therefore without strength as she gave birth alone, so the man takes her to his home and makes her regain her strength here we discover that in reality the woman she is a slave who escaped from a camp to save her little girl from certain death, their masters show up at the door of the two Orientals and ask if they see a pregnant Indian girl, they are looking for her not only because she escaped but also because before fleeing she took a bag of
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gold nuggets, the Japanese returns the nuggets but the girl won't give it to her, so there is a general uproar and the two Japanese in a short time have the better of the girl's masters, with Judo moves, as the two Japanese are samurai fleeing the war that gripped Japan, the two Japanese are helped by the red skins and from that point there will be a change of front of the two Japanese who see the lands as their new home and homeland of America and the Indians, becoming Indians themselves, with names that recall animals and nature, and they in exchange teach the typical oriental moves to the natives of America who are surprised by the even more unknown features of the pale faces that come to invade their lands. What I can say about this graphic novel is cinematic, the action scenes are masterfully done, the two protagonists are very simple, we don't dwell on their past as samurai but on their present as Indians, but not forgetting their origins since in the battles that will follow in the story, they use tactics learned over years of experience as samurai still using their inseparable katana and their way of thinking is not typical of French, English, Spanish or any other colonizer. I don't know if it's true or is it a narrative device, but the graphic novel Sky Hawk uses the device of the Japanese who emigrates to America, a device that we find in other works by other authors, such as Isamu (Sam the boy from the west) or in Guns Frontier (by Leiji Matsumoto).
For the drawing there is nothing to say because I risk being repetitive but in this story there is an evolution in the line, or at least that's what I perceived while reading. In the introduction, before going into the story, we talk about what Taniguchi wanted to blend by taking inspiration from famous films that talk about this topic, for example "Dances with Wolves", "Avatar" or "The Last Samurai", The topics that I found in the story that fit with the movies are: the family found in a completely unlikely place for the protagonist, applying past knowledge with newly learned ones, adhering to a creed and making it his own as if it had been decided from birth.
To conclude I must say that this graphic novel is much more dynamic than those previously read by the same author, there is also something to reflect on here, but the battle scenes are phenomenal and they keep you reading, my favorite table is the scene which wants to be a joke to the scene of the last samurai where the legion has to bring down the defenses of the Indians and so they use the Gatling (machine gun that was used at that time) but is promptly shot down by sky hawk as if nothing happened killing the user with an arrow.
I give an 8 to the story and 10 to the drawings.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 3, 2023
This story works much more like a light novel, and it gave me more pathos than the manga which, in addition to the overly sugary drawing, the information is given only halfway because there is no space in the manga, instead in the book, the drafting of the characters, the narrated events and so on are done well and not boring at all, some of the information taken from the manga has changed, such as the time in which Taito can die and come back to life, which is no more than ten minutes but fifteen minutes, for the rest, the story is the same
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as the manga but made more readable for the book format with some drawings here and there for the book; it is a great pity that the light novel has stopped at the second volume and perhaps due to the drop in prices, the planet manga has decided to cut the series, I would have liked to continue it even if it was another way of reading the story of the black rabbit since the author of the story declared that the manga work was born first than the anime and then the light novel.
Finally I must say that all the atmospheres described in the light novel involve the reader much more by creating images in mind even if that story has already been read in another way, as regards the design I must say that it is done really well and I prefer it to the style of the manga.
I give the light novel a 7.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 3, 2023
Every time I read taniguchi's graphic novels and I always wonder, how the heck he manages to draw so well that the plates look like museum artworks or just photographs, the author of the eight stories is Ryuichiro Utsumi and I am amazed that from such small and insignificant things you can come up with very beautiful and touching stories with different nuances, each story has its own theme and they all want to represent something of Japan, with its rules that break the wings of spontaneity, in the first story you he dwells on whether a simple tree has a soul, in the second
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story we get to know a normal girl but much more intelligent than her peers, in the third story a father wants to meet his daughter again in the same city where he works as he hasn't seen her since the divorce with the wife, in the fourth story we talk about two brothers who try to survive in a world that sees them already old even if they themselves still have a lot of energy to spend, in the fifth story it is dedicated to the relationship between brother and sister, in the sixth story we talk about love even in an age that is defined as elderly, in the seventh story two brothers go in search of their dog that they had entrusted to an acquaintance finally, the last story talks about the difficulty of adapting to another country that you don't know, each story refers to a theme of the same, the characters show off their desire to be morbidly attached to traditions and disturbed by prejudices or how it should anything be done. I haven't found any stories done badly or that I didn't like and I believe that this, like the other works by the author, must be read for the beauty of the tables, the way Jiro Taniguchi makes the settings make you breathe Japan deeply even if they are settings of ordinary places known by Taniguchi, and this is a characteristic of the master.
The interview made by panini both with Maestro Taniguchi and with the author of the eight stories was very interesting, I found it one more thing to get to know him, even if many of the things he said also transpire from his stories.
I give the stories a 9 and the drawings a 10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 3, 2023
Here is another series of self-contained stories by an author like Mitsuru Adachi, an author who with touch has managed to conquer the hearts of many readers from the nineties to today, making him a great classic of Japanese manga together with other authors, it was almost a pioneer if you will, of the Italian interest in new manga with a different target, touch is placed in the nineties where there was the boom of Japan and all that it brought, not only new manga but also video games and films or cartoons , and publishing houses began to pop up to sell those products
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and many others closed their doors to make room for competition. In any case, I personally approached the comic back in 2002 when I left my mountains to venture into the city and I've only seen a few episodes of the anime from Touch, but I know broadly what the story is about and in the end I'll read it in full ; in this comic you see his unmistakable trait of the author, I only recently discovered that it is a comic that completes the series of stories called "short program", the quote to himself in the second story of "the hard life of a freeloader" is very nice ” , his stories always full of some kind of sport and amorous entanglements, a fundamental characteristic for knowing the author, otherwise this volume entertained me about twenty minutes due to its simplicity. A special applause to star Comics who always manages to improve, I love the color plates.
I give the volume a 6.5.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 3, 2023
I assume that I have read few shojo in my life as a comic book reader, but I find this very delicate in telling the story of this girl who has just come out of adolescence and begins to take her first steps as an adult and with time will have to leave old habits, such as falling in love with popular stars, a girl who has a complicated relationship with her body, much taller and more muscular than her other peers, with the desire to know true and pure love and beyond, the crushes or infatuations. There are three of her family, she, her
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sister and her mother, her father is not present because he is a university professor traveling around the world and because of the divorce when she was still very young. This comic is a slow succession of events that will lead Sumiko (the protagonist) to change and evolve, with this the author explains what she went through from the end of adolescence to maturity despite everything that follows, such as the fact that it causes me not little susceptibility, the fact that a man cannot go near the kitchen or the fact that one must not say that a man knows how to cook well, I hope it is a sporadic fact because otherwise these Japanese are a bit retrograde. The author and Keiko Ichiguchi, Japanese who moved to Italy to study drawing, I met her with the book "Why the Japanese have almond-shaped eyes" where she explains anecdotes of her life in Japan, of Japan itself and its relationship with Italy and its inhabitants, His drawing style and very particular differs from other shojo manga for his with a delicate and soft hatching and the settings (including Milan in one of the chapters) are done very well, the shojo manga is a genre where the mangaka, not only puts the dialogues, but also the thoughts of the character and the author, which often causes real headaches, which does not happen in this manga where the tables breathe and the times , both comedic and serious are treated in an exemplary way. I hope to also read the other works of the author to make the comparison.
I give this one-shot manga 9 for drawing and 8 for story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 3, 2023
The story of a man who has been in conflict with his father for a long time and who at the latter's funeral begins to remember his figure and begins to have regrets, the story takes place both in the present and in the past, in the town of Tottori, the author's birthplace, this comic is a way for him to apologize for his long absence. In the comics, the father's story is a story like many in the post-war period, with the occupation of the Americans, the job of a barber, the building of a family, with the big problem of a fire, the
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reconstruction of the job, the wife's infidelity, the divorce and remarry after a short time. But this story is seen from the eyes of the son who, since his mother left, has no longer been able to interact with his father because he blamed him for the divorce, and by moving to Tokyo he found an excuse to escape having to inherit the salon from barber as his father and uncle would like. Many things didn't go down to me very much in the concepts said by the characters, which I also found in reality, for example the wife who is unfaithful to her husband because he only thinks about work, which I absolutely don't agree with or when with everything that happened with the protagonist, his sister says she doesn't want her son to go to the university of Tokyo because she fears she won't see him anymore, these are things that irritate me and not a little. In short, in dad's time it evokes memories and sensations even for those who still have parents but above all for the country you leave when you decide to leave, when you return to the place where you left, we will remember all the people we met during the life and the country that yes and so loved or hated and we will realize that it has not changed at all. The drawing is always sublime and realistic at the highest level and the style is always a graphic novel.
I give a 7 to the story and an 8 to the drawings.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 3, 2023
The story of this thirteen-year-old girl who is sold for a sack of rice to an elderly Geisha, owner of a Geisha and Danna or clients of a very high social class, to make her work as a servant for the now professional Geishas, the girl they are taught to play the "Shamisen" which is a musical instrument similar to the guitar but with a very long shaft and is played with a plectrum made of ivory. The story of the little girl takes place simultaneously with the history of Japan in the "Showa" era (from 1926 to 1989) with very important historical facts such
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as the Mukden incident or nationalistic and military propaganda. Tsuru will suffer a rape and so the mistress will decide to initiate her into a mature Geisha, therefore there will be a leap of five years, where we see Tsuru having become an adult and a professional Geisha and there we begin to get to know Tsuru's character in depth. A very complex manga that shows off all the beauty, the elegance of the Kazuo Kamimura line, a very important figure in the world of Gekiga manga. The thing that strikes a lot about this manga is also the bloody scenes are elegant and delicate, a story that focuses not only on the world of geishas but also on women in general. This manga blows me away because every word I spend will never be enough to describe this masterpiece. The history of its publication is very curious, I will certainly reread this manga because by rereading it you can discover new things. I give 10 to the story and 10 to the drawing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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