It wasn't BAD. It just wasn't particularly good (okay, I was mildly engaged by the hot mess of the prince fellow--I was expecting a flatter character than she gave us--but overall, it just played out in a predictable way), and while I still like her art, it now rarely smacks me in the face and makes me take a deep breath, which is a feeling I used to get with her art all the time. I do still get it from Cantarella, though, which is like omg You Higuri's Art Amped Up to 11!! Basically, I just finished it thinking, yeah, I didn't need to buy that.
(Cantarella is still one of the prettiest comics I've ever laid eyes on, and for its levels of drama/melodrama/crazy incest/You Higuri, What Have You Done To History?!, it remains a must-read for me. I am pleased to know that the hiatus is over in Japan! Go me, waiting like a year to read the latest volume, which has been sitting on my shelf so frickin' long I had to skim through volume 9 again just to remember who all the newer characters were and what the hell they were doing.)
I don't suppose you've read Crown, the one she was working on while she had Cantarella on hiatus? Is it worth a look? (I already know Gakuen whatever is probably not worth it, since it's the kind of BL I don't care for, she only does the art, and at a quick glance, the art did not look to have that insanely sumptuous quality present in her historical/fantasy comics.)
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on 2010-03-20 10:57 pm (UTC)(Cantarella is still one of the prettiest comics I've ever laid eyes on, and for its levels of drama/melodrama/crazy incest/You Higuri, What Have You Done To History?!, it remains a must-read for me. I am pleased to know that the hiatus is over in Japan! Go me, waiting like a year to read the latest volume, which has been sitting on my shelf so frickin' long I had to skim through volume 9 again just to remember who all the newer characters were and what the hell they were doing.)
I don't suppose you've read Crown, the one she was working on while she had Cantarella on hiatus? Is it worth a look? (I already know Gakuen whatever is probably not worth it, since it's the kind of BL I don't care for, she only does the art, and at a quick glance, the art did not look to have that insanely sumptuous quality present in her historical/fantasy comics.)