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Gankutsuou (Manga)

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Nov 10, 20085 of ? chapters read 4 of 9 people found this review helpful Note: Right now, this review is only for the first volume. I don't like doing early reviews but, since volume was only released a few days ago and only 10 people have rated it on MAL so far, I thought I'd try to draw some attention to it. Please don't vote this unhelpful simply because the review isn't for the complete series -- I will be editing the review after each volume is released. --------- First of all, I have to say that volume 1 was a fair...ly disappointing read and not really worth the asking price of £6. Seeing the wonderful cover art (which happens to be the only amazing aspect of this volume) on a website made me, someone who ranks Gankutsuou as his #1 anime, happy to pay more than I normally would pay for a single volume of manga. However, after finishing reading, I was left wondering why so little effort had been put into what's inside the cover compared to the effort put into the cover design... After removing my eyes from the lovely cover and looking inside, the first thing that caught my eye was the surprisingly atrocious artwork, the art not doing the artwork of the anime justice at all. Albert's face, and many other characters, often look randomly fat or just plain odd. The nose of Albert was often suspect, it not even being drawn properly a lot of the time, and the art was generally inconsistent. Some characters designs have even been changed completely, with Mercedes (for example) looking ugly and white - a far cry from the beautiful Spanish looks she had in the anime. While the art did improve a little in terms of consistency as the volume went on, it still wasn't up to the standard I expected after viewing the stunning looking anime. Even the story wasn't exempt from problems - it seemed a little too rushed and the rearranging of key scenes didn't improve anything, the opposite actually being true. The story switched from the events on Luna to Villefort's in-house murders within the space of a few pages, and the scene switching required Franz to become involved in Villefort's problems. Why wasn't more time spent on the Luna segment? It was daft to attempt to cover the kidnapping/rescue part in a couple of pages. I also wasn't best pleased with the Edmond flashback occurring at the start of the manga story - it worked much better in the anime, where the flashback was shown after Edmond had put his plans into motion. In the novel (The Count of Monte Cristo), going through the events in chronological order worked wonderfully because 100's of pages were spent on telling readers what happened in great detail...but, in the case of the anime/manga adaptation, it works much better if Edmond's past is left mysterious until the end because not much time is there to be spent on his lengthy back-story. I'll probably get the remaining volumes just to complete my Gankutsuou anime and manga collection, but I haven't been impressed with what was shown in the first volume. The anime is superior to what was in the first volume in every possible way and, unless you're a fan who wants to see more of Gankutsuou, the time you'd spent reading the first volume wouldn't be worth it. Vol. 1 Rating: 7/10 read more I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful  report

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