[ SECRET POST #186 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #186 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Early-early 'cause I've got stuff to do later. ):

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 164 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
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Comments

[puncture.livejournal.com]

but why don't you like it?

[glitterbats.livejournal.com]

Why should they?

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

Why don't I like her art? Without the detail color brings to her art, everything looks distorted and heavy, like everyone is wearing ten pounds of eyeliner. It's not a style I like.

As for her writing, it's laughably shallow. I feel absolutely no connection to any of her characters, and it all feels like it's "moody" in the same way a streotypical teenager is "moody"--rebelliously and with no real substance. I've sampled at least one volume of everything I can get my hands on by her, in the interest of fairness. None of it appeals to me.

And, really, I just want her out of my favorite magazine. Most of the time I can just ignore her, but not when she's on the cover every other month and she's taking up the space series I love used to have.

[puncture.livejournal.com]

fair enough, it's not for everyone. And I definitely don't read it for the story. I've never really picked up on the distorted & heavy thing though.

[halevy.livejournal.com]

You should really try more. (If you want.) One volume of each series won't tell you enough, since the characters develop afterwards.

I don't find anything "shallow" about her writing. .__. Sure, it's kind of corny and some things are predictable but they're shoujo. Shoujos are kind of like that.

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

One volume of each series won't tell you enough, since the characters develop afterwards.

At least one volume. With Angel Sanctuary, I stuggled through five. A lot of her series are only a few volumes long. And in those cases one volume should be more than enough to allow you to connect to the characters.

Sure, it's kind of corny and some things are predictable but they're shoujo. Shoujos are kind of like that.

I love shoujo manga. It's practically all I read. ^^;; So that's definitely not the problem.

[(Anonymous)]

I went through 15 of Angel Sanctuary and couldn't find a SINGLE thing about it that was appealing. I read ALL of the Count Cain series (through the end of God Child) and read Kaine, and nearly all the stories had the exact same core:

*INCEST, A GAME THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN PLAY
*INCEST RUINS LIVES
*BUT LOVE WINS OUT IN THE END.

Plus, the panel coordination? Nonexistant. It's hard to tell which panel on the page you're supposed to read when everything's so convoluted. One character's got long flowy detailed hair AND wires growing out of him AND blood spewing out of him at the same time while he's going down a tree. It's a recipe for a very dizzy head.

[niwakaame.livejournal.com]

Gosh,thank you so much for the shallow thing, I thought I was the only one. Her characters are very often quite corny -- I don't know how she manages it,but I've had real troubles at being in empathy with them.

Despite all, I admit to liking Angel Sanctuary quite a bit,despite hte main cast being rather infuriating. Fairy Cube didn't start out too bad,but gosh, the end...Heh,if you ever feel like picking up again some of her stuff(which, I don't see why you would,but anyways), thre's only one thing I recommend:
Ludwig Kakumei/Ludwig Revolution. She doesn't take herself seriously in there,it's short, it's sort of fariytales revisited. It's one of the most enjoyable things by her I've read, and believe me I read most of what she did.