MICHELLE: Welcome to the second installment of Let's Get Visual, the monthly column in which MJ (of Manga Bookshelf) and I attempt to improve our admittedly lacking skills in visual analysis! In the comments section of last month's post, it was suggested that we choose selections that would allow us to "examine movement and panel-to-panel storytelling." This notion intrigued … [Read more...] about Let’s Get Visual: Annnnnd Action!
TOKYOPOP
Silver Diamond 5-7 by Shiho Sugiura: B+
My darling Silver Diamond! How I have missed you! There was almost a year between the releases of volumes four and five, but TOKYOPOP is on the road to recovery (yay!) and the series is now on a quicker release schedule. In volume four, Rakan traveled to the other world in the company of Chigusa, Narushige (and Koh!), and Tohji. Pretty quickly they encountered a group of … [Read more...] about Silver Diamond 5-7 by Shiho Sugiura: B+
MMF: Weekend Edition
The Paradise Kiss MMF is winding down, but there are still some new contributions to highlight. Proving once and for all that manga isn't just for kids, Derik Badman shared his academic paper, "Talking, Thinking, and Seeing in Pictures: Narration, Focalization, and Ocularization in Comics Narratives," for which he used Paradise Kiss as an example: Were I able to spend the … [Read more...] about MMF: Weekend Edition
MMF: The Isabella Appreciation Society
There are a couple of new MMF contributions to mention today, and both take time to bestow some praise upon Isabella, the "elegant transvestite." Over at The Manga Curmudgeon, David Welsh dusts off a 2005 column on Paradise Kiss and freshens it up with some new thoughts. I love his insightful take on Isabella's function in the story: I was initially a bit annoyed by the … [Read more...] about MMF: The Isabella Appreciation Society
MMF: Another Day in Paradise
Each day brings more terrific musings upon a terrific series! Today, we have three! At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson has posted a review of the first volume and makes a nice comparison of her own initial avoidance of the series and Yukari's preconceptions about the members of Paradise Kiss. Just like with NANA, I was pulled into this series from the first chapter and hooked … [Read more...] about MMF: Another Day in Paradise