manga i've been reading this week (technically today)
orange by takano ichigo
I found this manga yesterday and started reading it a few hours ago and already I'm head over heels for it. What first attracted me to it was the art, it isn't often that you find manga with so much detail put into characters facial expressions. Manga is often very simplistic, which is sometimes necessary for mangaka to churn out a chapter a month (or less, I never really kept up with Bakuman) so it's really refreshing to see characters with distinctive facial features and to see their expressions change subtly the way humans do.
The story itself is pretty melancholic, it's comes off like a typical coming of age high school shoujo but the way it deals with serious themes like death, suicide and self esteem puts it in the high school drama category.
So far there are only 9 chapters out but I'm definitely going to keep it on my list of manga to keep up with, I have high hopes for Orange.
I found this manga yesterday and started reading it a few hours ago and already I'm head over heels for it. What first attracted me to it was the art, it isn't often that you find manga with so much detail put into characters facial expressions. Manga is often very simplistic, which is sometimes necessary for mangaka to churn out a chapter a month (or less, I never really kept up with Bakuman) so it's really refreshing to see characters with distinctive facial features and to see their expressions change subtly the way humans do.
The story itself is pretty melancholic, it's comes off like a typical coming of age high school shoujo but the way it deals with serious themes like death, suicide and self esteem puts it in the high school drama category.
So far there are only 9 chapters out but I'm definitely going to keep it on my list of manga to keep up with, I have high hopes for Orange.