Posts Tagged “Manga”

Better scans should come out soon, along with translations. I mean, Force’s chapter 0 got one after all.

Forgive the puny scans, those were taken from a site you should know. As I have predicted, Vivid focus on Vivio AND the Mahou Shoujo part of the franchise. However, the magitech that gives Nanoha its flavor and its lore are still here.

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She have gotten a fourth season. In manga form.

Yes, you will miss the music (not that great. The franchise needs Kajiura for that), the animation (suffered at times from QUALITY) and the voice acting.

But you can hope that Tsuzuki will bring flesh to his vision without having to worry about budget restriction. In fact, his worst enemies will be deadline and if something goes wrong with his collborators.

I am midly amused by the fact that the one in charge of the drawing in “Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force” is the same as the one who drew Shina Dark. A rather nice light fantasy manga with a bit of ecchi. We should not worry about the moé and the fanservice.

Now, it will be the first time we will see a magical girl in her mid-twenties. I just hope that the fact they dropped “Shoujo” in favor of “Senki” for Nanoha Force is not just for show and actually express the wish of the author, and a part of the fan community, to depart from the genre.

While this community have chanted that its roots lies in Gundam and Super Robots. One have brought up an alternative if not more interesting interpretation.

A careful scrutiny of the Nanohaverse reveals that it isn’t really a magical girl series. It’s a fantasy-adventure series like Slayers disguised as a Magical Girl series. The high-tech look of TSAB equipment and the title obscured that.
There’s also the fact that Nanoha, Fate and Hayate are getting too old to be called Magical Girls anymore. At 25, they’re approaching the other contender for the title of oldest magical girl, right?

You have the journey element (Nanoha Takamachi, her challenges and her growth), the happy party growing as more enemies are defeated, the signature weapons so dear to the adventurers, and the quest for artifacts of doom in the first seasons (the jewel seeds and the Book of Darkness), and you also have the older generation eventually passing the torch to the new generation (seen in some fantasy epics, or in tabletop RPG games where player characters becomes too powerful and when the players and the gamemaster want a peaceful retirement). Those elements and the overall structure are indeed closer to the fantasy genre than Gundam or the Super Robot genre.

1980s are here and still kicking!

From my own personal experience, my relationship with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been… on the strange side. Back in the mid-1990, I disliked it. Mind you, if was a VHS rip of the OAV, in japanese with no subtitles. I has no way to grasp what was going on, excepted a bunch of strangely dressed people who would have been in the Village People. I could consider myself fully converted back in 2002, thanks to the efforts of a Viking who named his son after a King of Fighters Boss and a Tard from Kuwait who dreamt to ride a mecha version of Godzilla.

It somehow did help that the manga has started to be published in France.

So let me ramble about JoJo,

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