Dressed Up Again, Eventually
Dec. 18th, 2024 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAlthough I keep bringing it up, “only reading manga after I’ve seen the anime adapted from it” isn’t quite a hard-and-fast rule for me. I might even have started to wonder a little if that rule formed about two decades ago, even if I can then wonder if daring to bring up “to me, anime from the ‘early digital production era’ now looks a bit less impressive in general than recent anime” would bring up complaints from those ready to find faults in something approaching all recent anime and assign blame to big companies.
In any case, after acquiring the twelfth volume of the My Dress-Up Darling manga (which has a cover illustration appropriate for this season) I was conscious of having stopped reading that manga “for the moment” after its fourth volume, when it was approaching but hadn’t reached the point where the anime had left off. The thought that, unlike Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (say), I had no clear impression of more anime even being in production did have me pondering starting into the fifth volume. It’s even possible the art of the previous volumes hadn’t quite grabbed me and left me thinking “it has more character than the anime.”
Then, though, I did see an announcement there is going to be more anime in the series. “Next year” could mean another nine months to wait, of course. I’m at least not at the point of having no other new manga waiting to be read.
In any case, after acquiring the twelfth volume of the My Dress-Up Darling manga (which has a cover illustration appropriate for this season) I was conscious of having stopped reading that manga “for the moment” after its fourth volume, when it was approaching but hadn’t reached the point where the anime had left off. The thought that, unlike Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (say), I had no clear impression of more anime even being in production did have me pondering starting into the fifth volume. It’s even possible the art of the previous volumes hadn’t quite grabbed me and left me thinking “it has more character than the anime.”
Then, though, I did see an announcement there is going to be more anime in the series. “Next year” could mean another nine months to wait, of course. I’m at least not at the point of having no other new manga waiting to be read.