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Things I've Been Reading Since Early 2009
Dec. 30th, 2012 11:24 amSince it turned out I had a lot to say about this, I'm moving it ahead of the rest of the queue and putting it in its own entry.
Dec. 21
THE END! So okay, here's my verdict: Although it suffers from the wobbles and vicissitudes of serialization, and not all of the plot threads move at the right pace or reinforce each other as much as they should have (and many of them fizzled, with characters just drifting off into nowhere), and I suspect Tanabe had maybe a quarter to a third of the story (tops) in his head when he started, this is very much worth reading. It's a genuinely excellent specimen of the shōnen fight comic genre, but much more thoughtful and humane than its peers, and it strikes a very solid balance between explosive inventiveness and metaphysical consistency and moral heft.
( Cut for some ending spoilers )
Okay, I think that’s most of what I’ve got. Who else has read this thing?
Yellow Tanabe - _Kekkaishi_ vol. 35-and-final
Dec. 21
THE END! So okay, here's my verdict: Although it suffers from the wobbles and vicissitudes of serialization, and not all of the plot threads move at the right pace or reinforce each other as much as they should have (and many of them fizzled, with characters just drifting off into nowhere), and I suspect Tanabe had maybe a quarter to a third of the story (tops) in his head when he started, this is very much worth reading. It's a genuinely excellent specimen of the shōnen fight comic genre, but much more thoughtful and humane than its peers, and it strikes a very solid balance between explosive inventiveness and metaphysical consistency and moral heft.
( Cut for some ending spoilers )
Okay, I think that’s most of what I’ve got. Who else has read this thing?