Humm - the thing I wanted to comment on this volume was how the artist and author handle the kids like kids - a lot of shonen manga treat/draw their junior high/high school characters like they're in their late teens and I'm glad HikaGo avoids that. Sai calls a lot of people (mostly Mitani) 'child' in this chapter and it really drove it home.
Also, is it just me or has Obata's art already markedly improved?
Obata's really got the art down now, I love it! I've been watching the anime in conjucntion with reading the manga, and it's starting to show that in the anime they've upped the angst and downplayed Sai's whiny-ness. (works for me; I don't like whining much, even though it doesn't bother me too much from Sai...)
I did make screencaps, but I can't post untill tomorrow; there's just too few hours in one evening!
It's been a long, long time since I saw any of the anime - my first thought is lol, angst, well. They had to do *something* to pad it for tv.... I have no idea if this is actually true.
I've noticed that just yesterday when I was browsing Yesasia for the new complete editions, and the old covers, starting roughly with this one, were impossibly pretty ALREADY. <333
~The art. I agree totally, the art takes on a different style here. I don't know many other shonen series to compare it with, but I did remark that the older characters in HnG are also drawn more 'realistically' than the younger ones. I find the go salon owner Shuu particularly well done: he shows the reader so much on his face without saying anything. Sai seems less ethereal in this chapter, more masculine too and, possibly, a bit younger. In fact Sai and Hikaru start to resemble one another more and more as the story goes on.
Does anyone know whether Obata's drawings are solo work or the work of his team?
~Sai and Mitani: I enjoyed rediscovering a part I'd forgotten here in the manga, where Sai is very positive about getting Mitani to change his ways ("above all because he's still a child"). I remembered Sai being harsher (perhaps he was harsher in the anime) because of his own experience with a cheater.
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Date: 2010-05-26 06:15 pm (UTC)Also, is it just me or has Obata's art already markedly improved?
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Date: 2010-05-26 09:03 pm (UTC)I've been watching the anime in conjucntion with reading the manga, and it's starting to show that in the anime they've upped the angst and downplayed Sai's whiny-ness. (works for me; I don't like whining much, even though it doesn't bother me too much from Sai...)
I did make screencaps, but I can't post untill tomorrow; there's just too few hours in one evening!
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Date: 2010-05-26 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-26 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-27 01:14 pm (UTC)---------------------
9-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/8406.html
9-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/8636.html
10-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/8898.html
10-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/9166.html
11-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/9463.html
11-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/9701.html
12-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/9802.html
12-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/10050.html
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Date: 2010-05-28 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-26 09:11 pm (UTC)I've noticed that just yesterday when I was browsing Yesasia for the new complete editions, and the old covers, starting roughly with this one, were impossibly pretty ALREADY. <333
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Date: 2010-05-26 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-30 08:32 pm (UTC)Does anyone know whether Obata's drawings are solo work or the work of his team?
~Sai and Mitani: I enjoyed rediscovering a part I'd forgotten here in the manga, where Sai is very positive about getting Mitani to change his ways ("above all because he's still a child"). I remembered Sai being harsher (perhaps he was harsher in the anime) because of his own experience with a cheater.