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Sep 17, 2011

The Legend of Maian (Manga) add

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Yes one more sword and sorcery manhwa,why is this genre so popular in Korea?They have much more titles of this kind than Japan or other country.Is this necessarily a bad thing?No.Cause this is one of my favorite genres I’m very happy with this kind of manhwa/manga,and even more if this one is made by manhwa máster Im Dal Young author of Unbalance x2,Kurokami,Freezing and other popular works.Also it’s very common for a work of this kind have a title starting with “Legend”,it’s almost a clichê of that genre.The manga seens like a genderflip version of Bastard!! And Rebirth(the Lee Kang Woo manhwa,unrelated to the Im ... Dal Young work of similar name),it starts the same way,but with a weak boy releasing a powerful sorceress that people trought was trying to take over the world many years ago,sealed by his own ancestor.It ends that Felicia now have to kiss the boy that released her everytime she has to use madra(the manhwa term for magic)becoming dependent of Felix the boy.Of course there’s the empire of Pennsylvania(yes it’s that name) trying to take over the world here,it suddently learned new spells lost long ago and developing new ones with the power of dark gods.At first the two main characters don’t like each other,but like in other Im Dal Young works they become closer and closer after some dificulties together.Felicia is wanting to reassemble her old followers,the 11 Regis Knights.There’s an arc for each of them 4 times,they don’t assemble all,it happens something that Felix is taken far and they seen to be dissapehered so Felix will have to assemble a new party for his adventures.

Story 7

The story is nothing new,and the plot don’t make many surprises,you will always have na idea of what’s going to happen but that doen’t means that it doen’t hook you in.The author tries to show a backgtound for almost every character,like na almost volume long flashback about Uraeshi Soun and an important development to Lyna Mia Delta just a bit after she enters the story.Felix also becomes less useless and dependent of Felicia in more recent volumes both psicollogically and as a fighter.The reason of the war of Felicia and Maian the Brave 1000 years ago is explained,but not the reason for Pennsylvania is wanting to take over the world or why Diha Sion sided with them,at least not very deeply.At least the story passes well with not many unnecesairy arcs and chapters,they have always a good pace between them,and don’t make you bored.There isn’t too much fight or too many unnecessary dialogue.And it doesn’t take many volumes to small personality changes in the characters in each of them.Most of the enemies until now(with the exception of Diha Sion)were mooks and not even close for a treat,they were stomped real fast by Felicia and the Regis Knights,but it’s still intersting how they overpower them.

Art 9

The art in Legend of Maian is simple and well made,with not too many details.Things like the beasts,castles,summons,spells and landscape are very well made.Felicia and Lyna have the same body,they have diferent faces,hair and eyes.Seens like Im Dal Young prefer buxom ladies,even if he didn’t draws any of his series.Expect more women like that to show up it’s his author apeheal.Some spells are amazing,even if just a pillar of lightning it’s very well made,nuclear explosions,a ray of light falling from the sky,a giant phoenix,a minotaur and fire elemental summons.Art was more poligonal and squared at first but after some chapters things start to become more round.Another thing drawed well is the character clothes,or the lack of them for some characters or the Ma Jin clothes and scarf,or Maian the Brave’s armor for example.I don’t seen any blatant errors in the manhwa art if ever was one it wasn’t important.There isn’t that much fluidity of moviment in the work,but they aren’t static also.Scenary is rarelly missing or unseen like let’s say Togashi’s manga who most of the times don’t have even movement lines.Poses aren’t reused unlike mangaka that can’t do more than a few poses.

Character 7

Characters have distinct personalities from each other and they stay true to themselves besides the developments doesn’t uncaracterizating them.Most main character evolve their peronalities during the manga,with rare excepitions like Ma Jin who is too quiet,or Anna Maize that just flatters Felicia and don’t have a background besides she was a Regis Knight in the past.All of them futfill archetypes ans stereotypes of this kind of manga but it’s still well played on them and they aren’t bidimensional.What I don’t like is the lack of explanation about of Diha Sion change of character,even knowing it will probally explained later,volume 10 was unsuficient for knowing more about him and al lhe said was clichê and undeveloped Im Dal Young can do much better twists than that.Most character development is about Felix and Felicia’s relationship,and he seens a loser in beginning just to it be more convincing when he slowly becomes an badass on par with Maian the Brave this is shown on later volumes.He becomes more corageous and self-dependent as time passes,but still is inexperienced and can’t use his abilities well.Uraeshi Soun is the one who had the biggest change in just the tournament arc,and he had the biggest flashback,and also had an 180 degree change.

Enjoyment 9

The enjoyment is very preasent,they aren’t much boring chapters and they end soon.The battles are one sided but the action don’t decepcionate you.If you are a fan of Sword and Sorcery you will already feel at home from the beginning of the story and indentificate the tropes of the genre.It’s not hard to undertand the script,no big problem in it.The feel in it is a fun and is a relaxed reading for a Im Dal Young work.He really know how do diferent types of works.

Overall 8

Overall it’s a very good series,it’s not Im Dal Young best work it’s far from worse either.It’s like an more serious Slayers with less comedy parts and more focus on the main plot.It’s an averlage work but it’s still more enjoyable than oher work of the same type.The biggest problem is the lack of development and objectives of the antagonists that takes away points from the story.And it need magic fights like that of Negima that manga have the best fights one title of this genre can have so comparing it Maian isn’t that fair.Maian also has good action too,but the result of the fights is always obvious.It have a great variety of spells even if many of them are other element version of already existing spells.It’s a good manga to fans of medieval fantasy,RPG books and videogames,LOTR or other things like that.

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Feb 21, 2011

Saint Seiya Episode G (Manga) add

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Preliminary (69/87 chp)

Saint Seiya Episode G

Pratically everyone of you must heard of Saint Seiya,most people form Latin América and some european countries like France must been heard of it.It also surprising popular at net battle forums(like the ones that you argue who would win in a fight).But mosto n United States are not familiar with it,and so I will explain it to people from all the places the original series that inspired that spinoff is from the 1986 Shonen Jump the was adapted at a anime at same year!The original manga can be dived on 3 main arcs,the Sancutary wich they start at a tournament for the ... Saggitarius Gold Cloth(how the saints armors are called,and they’re ranked like olimpic medals Bronze,Silver and them Gold)then it’s stealed by the Black Saints(carbon copies of the main characters)and Shun’s brother Phoenix Ikki,after they defeat and he joins them,after that the Sancuary’s Pope sends the Silver Saints to assassinate the 5 main characters,and it’s in that arc that we discover that Saori is Athena,nothing more than a few fights and some very easy victories of the bronze boys at the end of the mini-arc,the next part is when they went to the sanctuary to talk to the Pope,but Saori ends hit by a silver saint attack and the bronze boys have twelve hours to climb all the zodiacal houses to take off the arrow on her chest,after the defeat all the gold saints on these houses and finally fought the Pope that was a gold saint that become evil after that is also Poseidon and Hades in the original manga. And finally in SS you see major gods fighting serious,in the classical series when Poseidon would finally fight serious he was sealed again,Thanatos and Hypnos was only minor gods that were stomped after the saints got the God Cloths and Hades died too fast wihout showing his special tecniques

The Episode G is like a Gaiden of these Gold Saints the favorite characters of a loto f fans,and like the bronze saints fought much stronger enemies than them before,even the gold saints fought much stronger enemies than them,the 12 titans from mythological times released from Tarturus since the end of the Titanomachy the war of them against the Olimpian Gods.Unlike the classical series this one have very tridemensional characters and story,even the villains are well developed mainly Hyperion and Coues/Koios and even Pontos(not a titan)can be a complex character if you count his objective,the Titans are all portrayed faithfully to the original mythlogy but not on his speeches saying that the humas must bow to him,just cause he’s a god,and Aiolia talking of the real power(both simbolic and literal)that human being can have.There are poetic dialogue and lines everywhere,every important character has made at least one.The story is similat to the original,cause they’re fighting against the army of a god,but it doesn’t have the save Athena before something depending of the season happens and she dies thing.Still Kronos is using a huge hourglass that will rewind time for people at the Earth until humanity doesn’t exists anymore,and the Gs’ have to battle across the Kronos Labirynth like the 12 houses arc but it still has a fresh fell to it.I will give 9 to character and 8 story.

Now the art,Okada’s style is a huge improvement from Kurumada’s,and Okada have one of the best and detailed arts of all manga artists,it’s only flaws are that the characters all seen so thin and have a big head with unrealistic huge eyes(even for manga).I already said it’s detailed?The scenario looks like a classic painting,and also looks colorful even if the manga is black and white with the many diferent shades they use.Who read the latter Shadow Skill volumes(after the fifth one)knows that his art improved a lot since the first SK volume,I remember a bathing scene on the first volume that was way more gross than fanservice because of Elle’s such small waist and still have more muscles that most modern shonen heroes,she even has a six-pack.Good that in Episode G the characters are not so thin and not so muscular,more realist looking muscles,and Kid Kronos thank the Gods looks nothing like Gau Ban,who is that ploblem boy form.Now let’s talk about the Cloths and Somas the armors of respectivally the Saints and the Titans(and I’m not talking about NFL,LOL)the Classic manga later volumes were filled with armors the resembled costumes of the carnival from Rio complete with big wings and such,now the only armor like that is the Sagittarius one that already was like that the original series,the only big carnival decoration original to Episode G is Kronos giant ring at his Soma.Other armor,Pontos Ars Magna have a very plain design comparared to others,but it shines like a diamond to compensate.The characters all look very distinct from each other,with many particularities and it’s just possible to confuse them if you’re not still familiar with the character like other manga and even the classic manga where some diferent characters have similar design,I will give the art na 10,even with with faces and big eyes ploblems above mentioned.

Now the enjoyment,even if this is your first contact with Saint Seiya you will enjoy it,and if you’re familiar to the original series you will like it even more,well even if you didn’t liked the original series you probally will like this,cause it lost the classical’s simple plot,and now have well worked character,when the original not even the gods had little character development and reasons for their objectives,in epG they have clear personality.The art is incomparablely better than Kurumada’s outdated original art,and jumped to one of the best I ever seen on manga.The story is a lot envolving and I will make you want to know what will happen next.And the fights are more strategical and less willpower based than in the original,and each character use a bigger stock of special tecniques them before,the Titans all have a lot of tecniques,and the battles aren’t just Pegasus Ryu Sei Ken,the only ploblem is that Aiolia seens to fight all the battles against the Titans and don’t leaves much for the others GS to fight,and he make a lot of speeches about things as hope and the value of the human beings and things like that,when that happens the manga can be a lot boring.But overall I will give it 9 in both enjoyment and overall,with great review value,I recomend it for people who want a fighting manga with a plot.

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Sep 12, 2009

Out Code: Choujou Hanzai Tokumu Sousakan (Manga) add

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Preliminary (6/12 chp)

My first review hope you like it:
Out Code teel about a world that are human being with powers know as Excceds,and like all the manga and anime of this type(Darker than Black,Code:Breaker,etc...)but it's not as serious as DTB or as non-sense comedy part of CB,it's most a mix of the two to create something New,and as good as the others.If you are familiar with the other two or any similar series or comics you will like this manga.It's also a superpowers type of anime so people have powers like eletricity control,pirokinesis,teleportation,magnetism and illusions and I hope more.The Synopsis(with some spoilers)is that Kirisaki Kirio is acussed ...

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