I could never get started on Ceres, even though I enjoyed FY well enough at the time (the opening theme of the anime is great for karaoke!). The story seemed so convoluted that I just couldn't work up the energy to read.
I would love to read that volume of Kindaichi... there's never enough character work in those, as you say. I'm already imagining the gruesome murders of which you speak. (Have you read the one with the seven mummies in the crazy rural village? Man, that was needlessly complicated!)
I wonder if people enjoy DN for the same reason they enjoy zombie movies: what would I do in this situation? It's also not the cut-and-dry "moral" story that so many younger readers despise--it really lets the readers make up their minds about whether Light was doing the right thing or not. Personally, when I read it, the whole thing was an exercise in waiting for the other shoe to drop. I knew Light could never get away with what he was doing (L and Near notwithstanding) and waited with baited breath for the moment he made a mistake.
(Side note: I was frankly appalled at some of the plot twists, like setting up Light and Misa for a "death" at the hands of Light's father. Yikes, that was awful.)
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on 2008-05-22 05:55 pm (UTC)I would love to read that volume of Kindaichi... there's never enough character work in those, as you say. I'm already imagining the gruesome murders of which you speak. (Have you read the one with the seven mummies in the crazy rural village? Man, that was needlessly complicated!)
I wonder if people enjoy DN for the same reason they enjoy zombie movies: what would I do in this situation? It's also not the cut-and-dry "moral" story that so many younger readers despise--it really lets the readers make up their minds about whether Light was doing the right thing or not. Personally, when I read it, the whole thing was an exercise in waiting for the other shoe to drop. I knew Light could never get away with what he was doing (L and Near notwithstanding) and waited with baited breath for the moment he made a mistake.
(Side note: I was frankly appalled at some of the plot twists, like setting up Light and Misa for a "death" at the hands of Light's father. Yikes, that was awful.)