Categories: Uncategorized

Bakuman Vol, 1 – AQR

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
My quest to find some new manga continues, and this time hits an iceberg. And sadly, not a big bouncy iceberg.

Akito wants to write manga, so he convinces Moritaka, a classmate who can draw, to create a manga with him. Conveniently, Moritaka’s uncle was a manga artist and writer who worked himself to death. And Moritaka’s crush wants to be a manga voice artists. Akito even manages to arrange a situation that leads to the young lady promising to marry Moritaka when they have both successfully achieved their dream. This book chronicles their initial efforts to create a manga they can sell to a publisher.

This book proves the adage "there is a manga for everything". This manga is about making manga. Highly meta, this could have been brilliant. Instead it is dull as dishwater as the boys conduct research on what is popular in manga and come up with their answer to that. And so I put it aside, which I rarely do.

ubalstecha

Share
Published by
ubalstecha

Recent Posts

Boywatch – Episode 1

Being a geek parent is a game of waiting. There is so much you want…

9 years ago

I Love Nina!

So another week of Project Runway, and another week of drama and mean guy behaviour.…

9 years ago

RUNWAY! RUNWAY! RUNWAY!!!

You may have heard that Tim Gunn recently published an editorial the pointed out fashion…

9 years ago

Why Hermione Should Not Have Ended Up With Harry

The Harry Potter series ended in a tidy bow of Harry marrying Ginny and Hermione…

9 years ago

Project Runway – Season 15 Episode 1

Confession time. I love fashion. I love it's drama, it's whimsy, it's frivolousness. LOVE IT. I don't…

9 years ago

Thank you, Internet

The Internet is many things: a place where I spend a lot of time, a…

9 years ago