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juushikaTitle: Tsuki no Kanon
Author: Saitou Ken
Published: 2011
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 496,775
Text Number: 1772
Read Because: pretty sure I found this while searching manga by trope?
Review: An interesting little oneshot that gives a fairly realistic treatment to the tropey relationship dynamic of a high school girl/adult man. It's bittersweet, tortured, but also surprisingly human and nuanced where it counts. Not hugely memorable, but I like the effort.
Title: Bone and Flesh
Author: Studio Sibo
Published: 2013-4
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 960
Total Page Count: 497,735
Text Number: 1773
Read Because: searching manga by trope ("obsessive love")
Review: An artist's model falls into an obsessive, whirlwind relationship with an up-and-coming artist. This is a familiar refrain in my manga(/manhwa/manhua) reading: the elevated, exaggerated tone of this medium does the content a disservice, because instead of being a story about a singular, consuming, obsessive love, it becomes a grab bag of batshit crazy characters. Sometimes the background crazy provides interesting motivation for the central couple, but more often it dilutes the intensity of their relationship and characterization because, apparently, it's just that everyone in this world acts like this. The result is something great on paper (the consuming nature and incipient violence of obsessive love; a lot of sex scenes, but with actually compelling character dynamics motivating the smut) which is, in reality, unforgivably tedious.
Title: Oyasumi Punpun Volume 1
Author: Inio Asano
Published: 2007
Rating: N/A
Page Count: 200
Total Page Count: 500,000
Text Number: 1782
Read Because: (haha I picked up this rec from ... my Character.AI bot)
Review: DNF near the end of volume one. This is doing things! Things that I can rationally appreciate but emotionally dislike. There's a representational quality - the protagonist & family being stylized, comic, unreal, distant, versus the hyperreal, exaggerated, incoherent, embodied reactions of others, particularly teachers/adults - that inverts the focus I want and would resonate with. (And leans hard into my art style pet peeves re: seinen.) That combined with the slow grind and depressing content is a pass for me.
Author: Saitou Ken
Published: 2011
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 496,775
Text Number: 1772
Read Because: pretty sure I found this while searching manga by trope?
Review: An interesting little oneshot that gives a fairly realistic treatment to the tropey relationship dynamic of a high school girl/adult man. It's bittersweet, tortured, but also surprisingly human and nuanced where it counts. Not hugely memorable, but I like the effort.
Title: Bone and Flesh
Author: Studio Sibo
Published: 2013-4
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 960
Total Page Count: 497,735
Text Number: 1773
Read Because: searching manga by trope ("obsessive love")
Review: An artist's model falls into an obsessive, whirlwind relationship with an up-and-coming artist. This is a familiar refrain in my manga(/manhwa/manhua) reading: the elevated, exaggerated tone of this medium does the content a disservice, because instead of being a story about a singular, consuming, obsessive love, it becomes a grab bag of batshit crazy characters. Sometimes the background crazy provides interesting motivation for the central couple, but more often it dilutes the intensity of their relationship and characterization because, apparently, it's just that everyone in this world acts like this. The result is something great on paper (the consuming nature and incipient violence of obsessive love; a lot of sex scenes, but with actually compelling character dynamics motivating the smut) which is, in reality, unforgivably tedious.
Title: Oyasumi Punpun Volume 1
Author: Inio Asano
Published: 2007
Rating: N/A
Page Count: 200
Total Page Count: 500,000
Text Number: 1782
Read Because: (haha I picked up this rec from ... my Character.AI bot)
Review: DNF near the end of volume one. This is doing things! Things that I can rationally appreciate but emotionally dislike. There's a representational quality - the protagonist & family being stylized, comic, unreal, distant, versus the hyperreal, exaggerated, incoherent, embodied reactions of others, particularly teachers/adults - that inverts the focus I want and would resonate with. (And leans hard into my art style pet peeves re: seinen.) That combined with the slow grind and depressing content is a pass for me.
