What totally cracked me up was the paradigm shift X-D
This was more pleasant to read than the other chapters of this manga, because there's hardly any talk about that omega-stuff. I find that rather annoying and far-fetched altogether, if I'm honest. I'd rather read a story about real Japanese life, like this one. Without the alpha-omega-nonsense.
So much historical research, such good and funny drawings, ... but no decent story, in fact no story worth mentioning at all. What a waste!
The vet's neck is too long. Especially when his hair is in a ponytail, he looks like a giraffe, it's ridiculous. And his head's much too small for his body. There. Many mangaka should try some anatomics lessons before they start drawing. And put some difference in the faces! All the Native Americans have the same face! Seems like this mangaka can only draw one face, the only difference is the hairstyle...
Also, the translation is crappy, crawling with mistakes. Some English lessons as well, please! Arigatou!
(Aren't I in a bad mood today? I scare myself.)
Kaori-sensei keeps getting better and better and better and better and better... There's no saying where is she going to end up, if she lives long enough...
She didn't die, she got reborn, this is a very Asian buddhist story set in a post first worldwar-European set. She decided to die together with the poor woonded Albrecht, out of love; and as a reward, both of them reincarnate as healthy children, and to top, so does her real brother, who probably died of malnutrition.
that's what I make of it. This isn't really a realistic story, you know... still, I like it a lot. Beautiful mood, beautiful art. It doesn't always need to be big eyes and sentimental love, does it?
as a buddhist, i don't think it's a story about reincarnation. it's more like they wake up in heavy as bright, youthful souls and rejoin bridget's bio brother. more than anything, it's a story of found family and familial bonds with a bittersweet ending.
My, that's a reply to a post of mine from 7 years ago. I had to go look for what it was about again. But it was a very good manga, like they don't make them anymore today, do they? Both for the art as the script. I miss when the Japanese made manga like this...
oh yeah, this story is definitely one of a kind
And it's all drawn manually on paper. No AI or digital art programs whatsoever. Real art.
i disagree with the grouping of digital art with AI and the insinuation that digital art is somehow not real art, but i agree with your overall sentiment. traditional art is amazing.
You assume too much! Saying that it has no AI nor digital art isn't saying either is wrong... AI isn't real, but of course digital art is real art. I never pretended that, did I?
There's no difference in value between traditional art and digital art, there is however a degree in hard labor in traditional art. That was all I wanted to emphasize.
There's nothing uncool about Shutaro, in fact if all men were as gifter for fatherhood as this young man, the world would be a children's paradise... And what do you mean by "overzealous sexism"??? I don't even grasp what that means :-°
No, I think that person means that in series like this ( I am guessing), the guy shown raising the child is usually showcased as incompetent, bumbling and a mostly unfit parent. The female characters would then show up and take care of everything with a flick of the fingers like its nothing. It will be portraying the stereotypes that men cant be good parents. Sexism goes both ways. At least thats what I think the message is?
Ah, I see what you mean. Well, the story is totally the opposite. Mama goes to work to Finland and leaves her little doughter with her parents, who however have to work in a restaurant and therefor leave the raising of the child to their younger son, uncle Shutaro, who just happens to have come back from Tokyo and is temporarily out of a job. He accepts and turns out to be a fantastic daddy-uncle!
This is a story that sort of makes me think of Yotsubato, although it's not really that funny. But it is very pleasant and quite well drawn. The characters are very attractive, and one learns a lot about the Japanese culture (lots of which we already know, manga-crazes like us).
Well, the famous one is Usagi Drop, even though a lot of westerners dont like the ending. If you are a M, you could try Otakus Daughter (pretty sure thats the name). A series infamous for fan rage that went on for pages in one of the site I originally read it in. Both of these series had the MC (as a single male) picking up a daughter through various circumstances and ended taking responsibilities to raise them. The interesting thing is that both of them have hugely irresponsible mothers. The mother from the OD series is so bad that readers who claimed to be parents wrote pages describing various ways they would "educate" that person.
Yotsuba is pretty cute, but I cant treat it seriously. Because every time I read it, I am reminded of the doujins where the MC (dad) is dating one of the daughters next door. :P
Ah, really? I haven't met with those yet, but after all, it's kind of obvious, and it would be possible in real life, since the mangaka created those girls as very attractive, and the dad too. I actually was expecting Yotsuba's father to end up pairing up with the oldest sister in the actual story, it would have made sense, since there seems to be no shadow of a mother . And Yotsuba would have made a perfect Cupid! :-D
But those invisible or hopeless mothers in manga are infamous, there are about a gazillion manga where either the father gets abandoned by his wife leaving their kid with him, or both parents dissappear leaving a younger brother to take care of the kid, or even a perfect stranger. They come up with tons of reasons why the women leave, while in fact in Japan mothers rather commit seppuku than leave their children; that only happens in manga, I think. If a woman abandoned her kids, that would be in all the newspapers of the country for months and months. That actually happened once: a single mother left her kids with a note to the oldest brother who was something like ten or eleven, saying: "take care of your siblings". The poor kid did all he could, but in the end it was too much for him and it ended with one of the children dying. The whole of Japan was in shock for months, and the famous movie maker Kore Eda made a beautiful movie about it, called "Daremo shiranai" (nobody knows). It won prizes, I even think an Oscar, and the little boy who played the oldest boy also won an award. He was fabulous, by the way, he's called Yuya Yagira. He must be a grown man now. Here's the page about it on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408664/?ref_=nv_sr_1
It's strange how many abandoning mothers the mangaka make up, especially if you think that most Japanese mangaka are women and mothers themselves!
Maybe giving your kid to your family is not "abandonning" them ?
I don't know if it really happens often, but i have a couple of friend who did exactly them and left their kids to the grand parents for years. they also both believed strongly it was more stable and a better solution, and the way i knew about it seemed kind of "normal" possible option.
I would not make a rule out of it, but at least i know it's done more often than never, and with not terrible drama too ^^;;
MM... with their grandparents, I'd agree that's not really abandoning. There are millions of children throughout the world who are being taken care of by their grandparents, because their parents have to stay away to work. In Third World countries that's actually more a given than an exception.
But the mothers in manga are not like that. They're really depicted as "bad mothers", in order to make a plot frame for men to take care of children, which makes for a more original or endearing situation.
Usagi Drop is turned into a film since, and it won awards as well. Unfortunately, this movie is only enjoyable by people who understand Japanese, for there aren't any versions with English subtitles available. Too bad, it looks rather good. I could order it from my usual Japanese e-shop, but I wouldn't understand what they're saying, I'm not good enough at Japanese for that.
This looks like a manga made about 200 years ago. Somehow I don't think there are going to be any more chapters, since the author must be dead at least a century ago... Rather funny, though, in a pre-Tex Avery-kind of way!