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VACATION VACATION VACATION
May. 9th, 2006 09:27 pmEvery time I say to myself, "I need a vacation," I hear that Tool song in my head. ( You know, the one that goes )
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m00nface--hi m00nface! how the hell are ya!--I finally bought and read the first volume of Please Save My Earth. And promptly went and ordered the next four. It reminds me a bit of Fantastic Children, in a somewhat different style.
It starts with a beautiful emotional hook ("I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home"), proceeds with an appealing weirdness concerning the extinction of the dinosaurs, and then an equally appealing bizarre little boy, and finishes up the first chapter with a hilarious, and yet sympathetic portrait of the protagonist as she drifts off to sleep, crying about her troubles--petty, profound, and thoroughly heartfelt. Next chapter, cue the knowing commentary on shounen ai in shoujo comics, made interesting with an unexpected twist. Proceed from hilarity to sentimentality to tragedy, and wrap it all up with a sharp--though not unsigned--turn into fantasy.
It's special, and different, and creative, and most of all, sincere. I get the feeling that the author is something special; I'll have to give Tower of the Future (another Hiwatari title currently being published by CMX) another shot--I wasn't planning to pursue it because I couldn't stomach the selfishness and cruelty of the protagonist, but I recognize the same deft hand with human emotion in that as in Please Save My Earth, and I might grow to like it.
Apropos of nothing,
m00nface--hi m00nface! how the hell are ya!--I finally bought and read the first volume of Please Save My Earth. And promptly went and ordered the next four. It reminds me a bit of Fantastic Children, in a somewhat different style.It starts with a beautiful emotional hook ("I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home"), proceeds with an appealing weirdness concerning the extinction of the dinosaurs, and then an equally appealing bizarre little boy, and finishes up the first chapter with a hilarious, and yet sympathetic portrait of the protagonist as she drifts off to sleep, crying about her troubles--petty, profound, and thoroughly heartfelt. Next chapter, cue the knowing commentary on shounen ai in shoujo comics, made interesting with an unexpected twist. Proceed from hilarity to sentimentality to tragedy, and wrap it all up with a sharp--though not unsigned--turn into fantasy.
It's special, and different, and creative, and most of all, sincere. I get the feeling that the author is something special; I'll have to give Tower of the Future (another Hiwatari title currently being published by CMX) another shot--I wasn't planning to pursue it because I couldn't stomach the selfishness and cruelty of the protagonist, but I recognize the same deft hand with human emotion in that as in Please Save My Earth, and I might grow to like it.