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February 07, 2005
good manga, bad manga
foo. It's a good thing I just got Aa! Megami-Sama! 5. I kind of like the "extensions" to the story, but it's moving really slowly as a result. Urd should have shown up by now! But it came along at just the right time.
Because after just all those chapters of Death Note, I desperately needed to antidote with fluffy stuff. It's not that Death Note's good - in fact it's pretty damn terrible. I want to say that it's some sort of societal commentary, against Japan's death penalty, but. wuh. that would be giving it too much credit. *scratches head* Can't put my finger on it exactly. It has - occasionally - flashes of something promising, but mostly it's really lazy plotting disguised with layers and layers of fast talking, double-crossing, and triple-guessing to make it look more clever than it really is. It's almost as if it were purposeful and the writer was doing some sort of Kira-channelling thing... no, nobody could be this bad on purpose.
Even the art, which I liked in the beginning, now lacks dynamism. Everyone looks posed, rather than being captured in a moment. *sigh* but I'm hanging on, if only to see L finally pull one step ahead and hoist that snotty little bastard Raito on his own petard.
*heh* it just occurred to me that it might actually be the writer getting back at the rich popular kid who bullied him in school. That's one elaborate revenge fantasy.
Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at February 7, 2005 09:23 PM | Posted to Anime/Manga
