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REVIEW: Oh My Goddess! GN 25




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aikolyn



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:14 am Reply with quote
whens the special episode of Season 2?????? of ah my goddess?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:36 pm Reply with quote
aikolyn wrote:
whens the special episode of Season 2?????? of ah my goddess?


Why are you asking about the anime adaption when this review is for the original manga?

... Gah, since I'm posting, I might as well reply with what little thoughts that I can muster.

I can't really fault the review since I primarily agree with it, though the low grade on story is a bit shocking (admittedly I would've only given it around a C or C+ at the highest, but still).

I should take a note on the art, however. A friend that I've known online for about two years -- who's rite of passage as a manga fan began with Oh My Goddess! and Berserk, I think -- still isn't too overly fond of the character designs in recent volumes compared to, say, volumes fourteen and fifteen. (Having read ahead, the style you see in volumes twenty-five isn't all that much different than what you have in, say, volume thirty-two.) I don't have much of an opinion one way or another when it comes to the build of the different characters, but damn, one cannot seriously deny that Fujishima draws some downright purdy pics in Oh My Goddess!. I think it's more than fitting considering that he's transitioned a lot from the early college antics that were the building blocks in the beginning of the story to more focused on the fantastical world with magic and demons and all that good jazz. (As an aside, I find Lind to be a rather refreshing character in terms of the general mood of the plot.)

Heh, glad I'm not the only one confused when reading the battle. Even after re-reading Dark Horse's version, I was still left scratching my head at a scene or two. The only immediate comparison that comes to mind with difficult-to-follow fight scenes in manga is Nightow's Trigun/Trigun Maximum, which either become easier to comprehend as the story goes forward or else I've become so accustomed to his "technique" that I don't have any issues when figuring out what the heck's going on with the battles. It's a valid comparison, in my opinion, especially when you consider that both Fujishima and Nightow have really matured and progressed a helluva lot as artists when looking at recent volumes of their works to their first ones.

Now then, if only DH would no longer keep us fans in the dark of the Oh My Goddess! Colors book, then I'll have no complaints concerning their presentation...
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:08 pm Reply with quote
Eh, it's about one volume away from where I pretty much gave up on buying the manga in French almost three years ago. I got the idea that, after the action-oriented movie was released in Japan, Kosuke Fujishima changed the whole focus of the series from comedy, light romance, and slice-of-life vignettes, which is the whole reason I fell in love with the manga in the first place, to being one long series of epic magical battles, which just wasn't my bag. Not that there weren't any action-oriented storylines before the mid-20s, but they usually didn't last more than a couple of chapters and they were somehow a lot more fun to read. And the character designs were still pretty, but I find the detail in the backgrounds had diminished greatly, both with the various interiors in and around the temple and Nekomi Tech, and with street scenes, where it used to be a lot of fun to play "spot the video-game character cameos".

But now that the TV anime, which started out slow but which I thought grew better as it went along, had revived my somewhat sagging interest in the franchise, I might consider picking up the English version after the point where I left off with the French version, especially now that the art is unflipped.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:33 pm Reply with quote
Tenchi wrote:
Eh, it's about one volume away from where I pretty much gave up on buying the manga in French almost three years ago. I got the idea that, after the action-oriented movie was released in Japan, Kosuke Fujishima changed the whole focus of the series from comedy, light romance, and slice-of-life vignettes, which is the whole reason I fell in love with the manga in the first place, to being one long series of epic magical battles, which just wasn't my bag. Not that there weren't any action-oriented storylines before the mid-20s, but they usually didn't last more than a couple of chapters and they were somehow a lot more fun to read. And the character designs were still pretty, but I find the detail in the backgrounds had diminished greatly, both with the various interiors in and around the temple and Nekomi Tech, and with street scenes, where it used to be a lot of fun to play "spot the video-game character cameos".

But now that the TV anime, which started out slow but which I thought grew better as it went along, had revived my somewhat sagging interest in the franchise, I might consider picking up the English version after the point where I left off with the French version, especially now that the art is unflipped.


If you liked the slice of life aspect, and the daily life issues over the magical battles then get volumes 24 and 25. You get to meet Keichi's parents who are a trip to say the least. I do agree the magical aspects have gotten more cover time as of late but I still find them entertaining and worth reading.
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