6/19/2023 0 Comments Pretty guardian sailor moon vol 11Things do seem to be heading toward an apocalyptic finale. Next volume is the final one, so I may as well stick it out. But there's a certain parallel to Jack's 80's work and the latter chapters of Sailor Moon. Naoko Takeuchi is the Jack Kirby of the manga world! Okay, maybe that comparison doesn't work so well if you examine it more closely. The hyper-stylization of the artwork, the crude power of the writing, the association with the birth of modern fandom. And although everything is being painted with broad strokes, Takeuchi is still capable of coming up with some impressively mind-blowing concepts. It's one of the series that helped shape anime fandom in the English-speaking world. On the other hand, in terms of anime fandom in the USA, Sailor Moon is one of the Ur-texts. The writing is lackluster, lapsing into cliché and still relying heavily on people-particularly Usagi-repeating part of what was just said in the form of a question to pad things out. Some pages appear to have been vomited up by someone who ate one too many volumes of shojo. And the art seems to have gotten more stylized, with tonal effects getting almost out of control. Takeuchi's character designs start to blur together with such a large cast, and it can sometimes be difficult to tell them apart. On the one hand, I'm not enjoying this series as much as I was when reading the first few volumes.
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