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For a long time I hoped to write a sort of introduction to manga and follow it with some reviews and recommendations. I don’t feel up to the task. It’s a topic books were written on, and a great number of excellent blog posts. Having given up on this, I’m free to mention some specific mangas every now and then and treat them like just another comics.
Which is risky. Manga is an emanation of a specific culture and it takes time for a European reader to familiarise himself with different tropes and structures. Not to mention the fact that manga is drawn from right to left, like Japanese scripture, and this is usually preserved in English editions. And sensivities of Japanese readers are often… hard to understand. The amount of fanservice and sillines in otherwise serious and thoroughly researched and realistic mangas… the prevailing sexism of some of even the latest series… sometimes I read an excellent story for 10 volumes only for the immersion and enjoyment to be destroyed in a moment by something dumb or distasteful. Maybe I’ll elaborate on that some time in the future, but let me start today with something safe and unapologetically nice 🙂
So, I’ll just point to tvtropes for some basic information and introduce
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Upfront I have to admit this about Azumanga Daioh: I don’t really remember how the anime ends.
Not exactly, anyway. So comparisons of the manga and the anime are going to be general when I make them and sparse to begin with. If you’ve got any comparisons of your own, please feel free to do so in the comments.
Now, my first instinct here is to say what I always say when I’ve experienced both the print and text version of a story: there’s more depth in the text. That’s definitely true, but I feel like the pacing in the manga is off. Or that it’s just too comedic to begin with to really be quite so emotional in the end as the series. Although both end with the note that though high school’s over, the group’s friendship carries on. The manga just seems to do it more subtly, as it’s the subject of all of just three pages as opposed to what I imagine is a few minutes in the anime.
Oh — both end with Sakaki finishing her arc, too.
In both versions she meets and befriends an Iriomote cat, and is accepted into university. In fact, in the end, the whole group gets accepted. But with Sakaki in particular, things are really brought to a clear conclusion as the Iriomote cat makes its way back to her after its mother is kil
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Author: Kiyohiko Azuma
Title: Yotsuba&!
Series: manga slice-of-life/shoujo
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