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⌈ Secret Post #2136 ⌋

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[Psych]

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[Karl Urban]

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[pokemon: best wishes]

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[Fievel Goes West]

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CLOVER! It's the right balance between the cute artwork of CardCaptor Sakura and the noodlepeople freakshow their style devolved into :( In order to make an impact, it didn't need the visually stunning but drawn-out, almost impossible to understand battles that seemed to fuel the last part of TRC; they went instead for long, stylised lines and a very minimalist way of handling the panelling (expansive overviews of EVERYTHING look great on a two-pages splash in a manga magazine I bet, but they can be too cluttered to make sense out of them). I adore insanely detailed manga (for example, anything Kaoru Mori writes I'll read, because she fascinates me with a ton of accurate and plausible detail) but here it'd have detracted from the overall tone of this story, so I'm glad they cut the shojo imagery and went for a more sober style. It feels like they took a clean, cinematographic, almost intimate approach to a quite messed up and complex world and rescued a little, broken story.

... I have too many feelings about this, so I'll cut my rant a bit short: Clover's the only of their manga in which I've found that their style is in actual, active service of the tale they're trying to tell. Lavish landscapes or profusely decorated clothing can be eye-catching and a treat for people interested in costume, but keeping the dramatic ornaments restricted to a few circumstances (Oluha's gowns, Suu's wings) definitely worked in favor of this story. Less distacting while still beautiful.

It goes without saying, this is by far my most beloved of their manga, if not my most beloved manga ever.

Yes! Yes! This is exactly how I feel about Clover. It's so much more than "just" a manga, it's a true work of art and it's breathtaking.

Which is why it's even more heart-breaking, for me, that it was set in Times New Roman for the Tokyopop English release. From what I recall, no one has changed that D:

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