2007 manga write up

[oyceter]

This is why I don't make New Year's Resolutions to read less manga: the statistics would come out the next year, and I would laugh in my own face. The scary thing is this list doesn't include random scanlations or recent chapters of series I follow, and it's still at 275 volumes

Comments

[magicnoire]

I fell in love with ES from the very start for Mine, because never ever have I seen a research scientist portrayed with such frightening accuracy. Fuyumi Soryo will forever get massive points from me for that alone.

(Although I like the manga for other reasons. Hee.)

[fmanalyst]

For me, the great thing about Mine is the presence of an intelligent, educated adult woman as the heroine. I didn't realize how tired of the teenyboppers I'd become until I found ES.

[oyceter]

Yeeeees!

[jinian]

Ooh. Okay, it just moved way up the list.

[rilina]

Your comments on 20th Century Boys fill me with glee. (More people must be assimilated!)

I may have to give Monster another try; it's conveniently available at my library.

[oyceter]

It's so awesome! I wish more people had read it so I can babble at them!

Monster is definitely good and worth reading; I didn't like the first few volumes that much, but Urasawa's plotting and good secondary characters starts to kick in around 4 or 5. I never ended up loving it like I loved 20thCB, but I still like it an awful lot, and probably would love it if I weren't comparing it to 20thCB. Also, the kids' books he puts in are really creepy.

[oyceter]

Oh huh! I love the anime to pieces, and I actually thought the changes the anime made to the manga timeline made a lot of sense (putting some of Ed and Al's earlier adventures in the manga as flashbacks). If you think about the worldbuilding too hard, it falls apart a bit, but when you're watching, it's incredibly tense and horrifying. The thing that I liked the most with the anime was how much things affected the characters; you get the sense that no one and nothing is safe in a way that I don't quite from the manga. That said, I like what the manga's doing with certain revelations as well, and I find the worlds of both very cool.