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mark_asphodel

"Light Inheritor" Review

Apr 20, 2012 19:47

OK. So, I finally bothered to read Fuyuki Nea's Light Inheritor FE4 manga, which covers the exploits of the 2nd Gen. I'd been avoiding it because I heard it contained heavy Celice/Leaf subtext with a jealous!Nanna angle, which sounded about as appealing as cleaning the basement.

This particular rumor is not true (though Celice does get upset ( Read more... )

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swanchika May 5 2012, 08:06:11 UTC

some dubious choices for character hairstyles

Now that's Understatement City. I read the entire manga on a Sunday afternoon (I don't remember what the weather was, but since it was around November, the sky was probably grayish and all that), and never got over this (see lower-left corner ( ... )

mark_asphodel May 5 2012, 11:38:44 UTC

Hello!

Sorry I have been slow to reply on some things; this has been a miserably scattershot week.

And why have Lester's hair suddenly grown past his shoulders ?

That was one that annoyed me, yeah.

it's a friendship-oriented manga with a cast of flat or not very sympathetic characters.

I can't really offer "suggestions" on how to improve the kids, either. Especially the three boys raised with Celice, who probably have the thinnest characterizations...

And the end just felt... anti-climatic.

It was better than the FE1 manga ending. I think.

Really, it's like the author was looking for a middle ground between Fujimori Nuts' wackiness and Oosawa Mitsuki's drama (though with the Second Generation as a setting)... and failed.

I think that's a good way of summing it up. But I hear that Mitsuki's manga starts suffering during Gen 2, likely for the same reasons re: source material, so maybe crazy-Fujimori style is the way to handle it.

swanchika May 5 2012, 19:18:16 UTC

Wait, as far as hairstyles go, I forgot to mention Nanna's ridiculous hairpins or whatever they're called. What was wrong with a simple feather ? Here, I mentioned it, now, I won't say anything more about aesthetics.

I have yet to find a complete version of the FE1 manga, so I can't really make a comparison. Is it that bad ( ... )

mark_asphodel May 7 2012, 21:13:51 UTC

Oh, yes, Nanna's hairstyle was... odd.

Is it that bad?

Aside from the non-canonical villains, some weirdo plotlines, and inconsistent art... the ending is just so rushed and perfunctory, IMO.

Does Fujimori's manga actually cover the 2nd Gen ?

Actually, yes. I didn't know that until recently, but I found one LJ showing screenshots of some Second Gen scenes and was able to confirm that yes, it does.