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krpalmerAt least a few experiences with “the artwork of the original manga have more character to them than the mass-produced drawings of its anime adaptation” and “certain moments in the manga get... watered down for the anime” formed an impression in me that seems to mean there’s always a few stacks of particular manga growing ever taller until I’ve finished the anime that got my attention in the first place. After having made a bit of an effort to start into some of those anime (and having read through the latest lengthy volume of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou both right before and in the days after my vacation), I could at last pick up the first volume of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.
News that manga would get an anime had been where I’d first become aware of the title. The thoughts that I couldn’t take anything for granted about the adaptation and that manga had developed a reputation for becoming hard to find if you didn’t buy it at once had me starting to lay in volumes. As it turned out, the anime had impressed me and a lot of other people, but that in turn might have led to a thought or two wondering how much more I’d get from the manga. At a certain point, I suppose I was trying to think of how someone who’d started with the manga would have reacted to its introductions of characters and concepts through Kanehito Yamada’s story, but by the end of that first volume Frieren’s casual journey had established the significant destination she hadn’t reached by the end of the anime. That did have me thinking that would keep people reading, although there I did get to contrasting thoughts of “those who can read manga serialised” as opposed to people like me who read it in volume-sized bursts. I did manage to glance at the anime episode titles again and suppose this one volume of manga had turned into the four episodes all made available at once.
One thing that did catch my eye about Tsukasa Abe’s artwork (manga that divides the script and drawing duties isn’t unknown, of course, but it still surprised me to take a look at the cover while composing this post and realise this particular division at last) was Frieren’s new apprentice Fern. However, I had a hard time articulating just what felt different about here when Frieren and her past companions seemed more familiar. I did get to considering that Fern’s eyes, already distinctive in colour, still stood out again in black and white, black irises with white pupils where Frieren’s look a bit more conventional. That still didn’t seem the whole of the matter; I suppose there’s the thought Fern’s design could keep evolving in the manga over time. (She did, anyway, pout in the first volume in such a way as to get my attention and have me flash back to the anime and the interest of others in it once again.)
News that manga would get an anime had been where I’d first become aware of the title. The thoughts that I couldn’t take anything for granted about the adaptation and that manga had developed a reputation for becoming hard to find if you didn’t buy it at once had me starting to lay in volumes. As it turned out, the anime had impressed me and a lot of other people, but that in turn might have led to a thought or two wondering how much more I’d get from the manga. At a certain point, I suppose I was trying to think of how someone who’d started with the manga would have reacted to its introductions of characters and concepts through Kanehito Yamada’s story, but by the end of that first volume Frieren’s casual journey had established the significant destination she hadn’t reached by the end of the anime. That did have me thinking that would keep people reading, although there I did get to contrasting thoughts of “those who can read manga serialised” as opposed to people like me who read it in volume-sized bursts. I did manage to glance at the anime episode titles again and suppose this one volume of manga had turned into the four episodes all made available at once.
One thing that did catch my eye about Tsukasa Abe’s artwork (manga that divides the script and drawing duties isn’t unknown, of course, but it still surprised me to take a look at the cover while composing this post and realise this particular division at last) was Frieren’s new apprentice Fern. However, I had a hard time articulating just what felt different about here when Frieren and her past companions seemed more familiar. I did get to considering that Fern’s eyes, already distinctive in colour, still stood out again in black and white, black irises with white pupils where Frieren’s look a bit more conventional. That still didn’t seem the whole of the matter; I suppose there’s the thought Fern’s design could keep evolving in the manga over time. (She did, anyway, pout in the first volume in such a way as to get my attention and have me flash back to the anime and the interest of others in it once again.)
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