Soryo Fuyumi - Eternal Sabbath, vol. 03-04 (Eng. trans.)
Thu, Apr. 5th, 2007 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterTotally random note -- I can't seem to save and compile my custom layers; is anyone else having this problem? It's not my internet, because I've tested on a few computers, both on Firefox 2 and IE 6.
The plot thickens! The entire scenario with Mine and her friend creeped me out. I can't quite figure out what message I get out of Soryo's portrayal of their friendship; she seems to be critiquing the fact that Mine's friend must be jealous of her and that they must be jealous of each other. But I'm just very tired of the many fictional portrayals of jealous female friends. Particularly when one ends up dead as a way for a ruthless boy serial killer to toy with the other.
On the other hand -- man, that was creepy. Isaac staring at her, the knife, the scene afterward with the blood.
It's interesting how all the characters in this manga are dysfunctional; Mine seems sort of normal compared to Shuro/Akiba and Isaac, but really, she's not very equipped to navigate the social landscape either. And Isaac imprinting on Shuro and not learning love -- ouch.
I'm not quite sure where the series is going, but I love the questions that it's asking about learning to be human, learning to be social, learning to not be an asocial killer. It feels a lot like Urasawa's Monster to me, only Mosnter is a little more thriller and this is a little more of an exploration. The art works well for the series; stark whites and blacks, giant agoraphobic wide spaces, heavy shadows.
The plot thickens! The entire scenario with Mine and her friend creeped me out. I can't quite figure out what message I get out of Soryo's portrayal of their friendship; she seems to be critiquing the fact that Mine's friend must be jealous of her and that they must be jealous of each other. But I'm just very tired of the many fictional portrayals of jealous female friends. Particularly when one ends up dead as a way for a ruthless boy serial killer to toy with the other.
On the other hand -- man, that was creepy. Isaac staring at her, the knife, the scene afterward with the blood.
It's interesting how all the characters in this manga are dysfunctional; Mine seems sort of normal compared to Shuro/Akiba and Isaac, but really, she's not very equipped to navigate the social landscape either. And Isaac imprinting on Shuro and not learning love -- ouch.
I'm not quite sure where the series is going, but I love the questions that it's asking about learning to be human, learning to be social, learning to not be an asocial killer. It feels a lot like Urasawa's Monster to me, only Mosnter is a little more thriller and this is a little more of an exploration. The art works well for the series; stark whites and blacks, giant agoraphobic wide spaces, heavy shadows.