Hiwatari Saki - Please Save My Earth, vol. 01-04
Thu, Dec. 6th, 2007 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI will attempt to do an incoherent plot summary, but first I would like to say that the manga opens with DINOSAURS! Gazing wistfully at the moon and leaving in their alien spaceships!
Ok, it's all in the heroine's mind, but still: DINOSAURS!
(come to think of it, why hasn't there been more manga with dinosaurs? clearly an untapped well of crack and awesomeness! also, i would like to add dinosaurs to the long-standing battle between zombies and robots, though my current political stance is that giant zombie robot dinosaurs are the best solution.)
Oh right, PSME... (in another aside, the acronym bugs me because I keep seeing "PMS")
Alice/Arisu discovers that some of her classmates have been having reoccuring dreams about a station on the moon; eventually, they all realize they are reincarnations of the scientists there. While most of them attempt to figure out what exactly happened and why they're reincarnating, one of them is manipulating the rest, to who knows what end.
I'm really not sure what to think of this series so far. I'm incredibly uninterested in Alice and Rin and the fact that Rin is eight years old and a romantic interest! Agh! Yes, yes, reincarnation, but still. EIGHT! And while some of the manga meta comments by the characters amuse me ("Look at that two-page spread! Hiwatari just needs more pages."), mostly I wish it were just in the author's notes. I also cannot keep any of the characters straight in my head. Bad enough that most of them look the same, with only minor variations in hairstyle, but then I have to remember their past lives as well!
On the other side, I keep reading because I desperately want to know what happened on the moon. It feels grand and epic and tragic, and even though I already want to whap Mokuren and Alice, I do not care! I want to know! Also, more dinosaurs would be nice.
Ok, it's all in the heroine's mind, but still: DINOSAURS!
(come to think of it, why hasn't there been more manga with dinosaurs? clearly an untapped well of crack and awesomeness! also, i would like to add dinosaurs to the long-standing battle between zombies and robots, though my current political stance is that giant zombie robot dinosaurs are the best solution.)
Oh right, PSME... (in another aside, the acronym bugs me because I keep seeing "PMS")
Alice/Arisu discovers that some of her classmates have been having reoccuring dreams about a station on the moon; eventually, they all realize they are reincarnations of the scientists there. While most of them attempt to figure out what exactly happened and why they're reincarnating, one of them is manipulating the rest, to who knows what end.
I'm really not sure what to think of this series so far. I'm incredibly uninterested in Alice and Rin and the fact that Rin is eight years old and a romantic interest! Agh! Yes, yes, reincarnation, but still. EIGHT! And while some of the manga meta comments by the characters amuse me ("Look at that two-page spread! Hiwatari just needs more pages."), mostly I wish it were just in the author's notes. I also cannot keep any of the characters straight in my head. Bad enough that most of them look the same, with only minor variations in hairstyle, but then I have to remember their past lives as well!
On the other side, I keep reading because I desperately want to know what happened on the moon. It feels grand and epic and tragic, and even though I already want to whap Mokuren and Alice, I do not care! I want to know! Also, more dinosaurs would be nice.
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Thu, Dec. 6th, 2007 08:23 pm (UTC)This is EXACTLY how I felt. Parts of this series will be VASTLY ANNOYING and yet it is PURE EMO PORN.
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Thu, Dec. 6th, 2007 08:30 pm (UTC)But... OMG must find out what happens! Also, feel horrible for Enju/can't remember the reincarnation's name and am all for the gender-bending reincarnated unrequited love thing.
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 05:49 pm (UTC)I'm really not sure what to think of this series so far
Watch the anime first? It's got nice music and is only 6 episodes and is pretty faithful to the manga. I saw the anime first, and it makes me choke up in places. Then I read the manga, which has details left out in the anime and keps going on past the anime, and sobbed in places.