Manga Notes: Bakemonogatari 22
Sep. 21st, 2024 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerStill wrapping up more manga series than I feel I’m beginning at this moment, I worked through the twenty-second volume of the Bakemonogatari adaptation. It has been a while since I started it; indeed, it’s been a while in itself since it worked through the plot arcs of the anime episodes I watched streaming quite a while before that and detoured to a part of the supernatural-problems story I understood was shown as anime movies. After that, it moved on to what I supposed to be the episodes you would have had to pay a premium to get on Blu-Ray and spent quite a while adapting them. Oh!Great’s artwork does make this manga more appealing than certain other titles I’ve bought as if to not make up for buying expensive anime releases, even if the excesses of the later volumes did get to a point of making it clear the “fanservice” would forever ride on the point of almost crossing particular lines.
I was aware at the close of the penultimate volume the manga was adapting the point where I’d stopped watching the anime. The final volume went past that point and, so I gathered, sort of alluded to the great quantity of anime that followed by catching up to each of the characters. It also happened to present “the toothbrush scene,” which I’d seen other people get queasy or indignant about and just might have made me conclude I’d stopped at a decent point to stop at. All I can say beyond that is that certain unmentionable speculations of what might have happened weren’t what did happen. Anyway, in pushing along beyond that the manga did happen to introduce a distinctively designed character I’d understood showed up in the anime, if not in such a way as to leave me frustrated the manga was stopping here.
To be honest, the thought has snuck up on me that buying twenty-two volumes of manga might not be that different an expenditure from even the premium box set and movies that would amount to most of what it adapted. Thoughts of manga as “poor man’s anime” might be off in more ways than the one that first came to mind. The issue there, I suppose, is that the manga volumes don’t have much of a price differential to manga volumes from other series.
I was aware at the close of the penultimate volume the manga was adapting the point where I’d stopped watching the anime. The final volume went past that point and, so I gathered, sort of alluded to the great quantity of anime that followed by catching up to each of the characters. It also happened to present “the toothbrush scene,” which I’d seen other people get queasy or indignant about and just might have made me conclude I’d stopped at a decent point to stop at. All I can say beyond that is that certain unmentionable speculations of what might have happened weren’t what did happen. Anyway, in pushing along beyond that the manga did happen to introduce a distinctively designed character I’d understood showed up in the anime, if not in such a way as to leave me frustrated the manga was stopping here.
To be honest, the thought has snuck up on me that buying twenty-two volumes of manga might not be that different an expenditure from even the premium box set and movies that would amount to most of what it adapted. Thoughts of manga as “poor man’s anime” might be off in more ways than the one that first came to mind. The issue there, I suppose, is that the manga volumes don’t have much of a price differential to manga volumes from other series.