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Kubo Tite - Bleach, vol. 21-24
Sat, Oct. 28th, 2006 11:42 amI know I say this pretty much every time I talk about Kubo, but I love his art! So much! The little grumpy chibis! The dynamic lines! The fight scenes! I don't even care about fight scenes and he makes me think they're exciting!
( Spoilers for vols. 21-24 )
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( Spoilers for vols. 21-24 )
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rilina yesterday and they are the bestest things ever.Kubo Tite - Bleach, vol. 08-13 (Eng. trans.)
Mon, Jul. 3rd, 2006 07:34 pmY'know, I adore Bleach. I know that there are gender issues and pacing issues and all sorts of story-telling issues with the Soul Society arc, but I love it anyway! It's just, Kubo's art is so, so good that I don't mind that half the fight scenes consist of: Ichigo is going to face off the mostest scariest worstest bad guy ever! Check out the size of his zanpaku-to!
Ichigo proceeds to defeat bad guy. Cue next bad guy.
And yet, I love the art, and I love Ichigo's face, and I love the humor (Ikkaku's fight was particularly funny).
My favorite line so far is, "You're going to try to do [incredibly hard task] with what, seven? eight? nine people?"
"Er. Five people. And a cat," says Ichigo.
And while Kubo's absolutely insane character designs remind me a little of Watsuki Nobuhiro's latter villains, I love them. I mean... one of them has an eyepatch and Statue of Liberty type hair. With bells! At the ends of his hair spikes!
And then there is a one-armed ninja lady with gigantic boobs! And she blows things up!
I am so easily amused.
My other favorite moment involves the extreme dork Ishida, who has nearly perished because of his (very small) cape. While at rest, he whips out... a spare cape!
Oh yeah, some plot stuff also goes on.
But the plot stuff completely pales next to Soul Reapers with billowing kimono, who enter, heralded by cherry blossoms. The cherry blossoms, are, of course, thoughtfully scattered in the wind by his helpful assistant captain, who later dumps the entire thing on his head in a fit of pique.
I just love looking at this manga so much.
Ichigo proceeds to defeat bad guy. Cue next bad guy.
And yet, I love the art, and I love Ichigo's face, and I love the humor (Ikkaku's fight was particularly funny).
My favorite line so far is, "You're going to try to do [incredibly hard task] with what, seven? eight? nine people?"
"Er. Five people. And a cat," says Ichigo.
And while Kubo's absolutely insane character designs remind me a little of Watsuki Nobuhiro's latter villains, I love them. I mean... one of them has an eyepatch and Statue of Liberty type hair. With bells! At the ends of his hair spikes!
And then there is a one-armed ninja lady with gigantic boobs! And she blows things up!
I am so easily amused.
My other favorite moment involves the extreme dork Ishida, who has nearly perished because of his (very small) cape. While at rest, he whips out... a spare cape!
Oh yeah, some plot stuff also goes on.
But the plot stuff completely pales next to Soul Reapers with billowing kimono, who enter, heralded by cherry blossoms. The cherry blossoms, are, of course, thoughtfully scattered in the wind by his helpful assistant captain, who later dumps the entire thing on his head in a fit of pique.
I just love looking at this manga so much.
Kubo Tite - Bleach, vol. 01-07 (Eng. trans.)
Sat, Jun. 24th, 2006 10:08 pmI started reading Bleach because rilina kept blogging about it. Then I watched eps. 1-9 of the anime. Then I stalled out for a while. Then I saw it at the library. Ahhhh, library, how I love you! How you are such a portal to new and addictive series!
Anyhow, Kurosaki Ichigo is just your normal teenage manga guy -- he has bright orange hair and as such, is teased at school, is extremely grumpy, and, oh yeah, he can see ghosts and has a Tragic Past with regards to his dead mother. Somehow, he gets the powers of Soul Reaper Kuchiki Rukia, and she basically stays to train him to use them to defeat Hollows, dead spirits who have become malicious. Rukia illustrates various fine points of the Soul Reaper universe with bunnies. Rukia is gruff, no-nonsense, honorable, grumpy, and extremely cool, and does a hilarious impersonation of a standard shoujo heroine when she wants something from Ichigo or his classmates. Rukia is possibly the least shoujo person ever.
I adore Rukia.
I like Ichigo well enough, but I actually like most of the supporting characters better, particularly his sister Karin, who routinely tries to beat up their dad. And I didn't think that I would like D-cup class airhead Orihime, except she's airheaded in a very peculiar way, and I like her oddness. And I adore Tatsumi, who is very attached to Orihime and very protective of her. I also adore Chad, who is large and muscular and scary-looking, except he has such a soft heart that he will rescue doomed parakeets.
The story arcs themselves aren't actually that interesting, but I adore Kubo's artwork. It's somewhat angular and rough, but still stylized, and he does the best grumpy chibis ever.
Oh, also, there's a teddy bear/lion plushie that thinks he's in love with Rukia. Rukia, naturally, reacts to this by ignoring him and taping him to toilets.
Have I mentioned I adore Rukia?
I've actually had a hard time getting into Naruto because of the art, despite the fact that Kishimoto's story and characters are more interesting to me. But Kubo draws fight scenes that I can actually follow, and even if I do get bored during all the fight scenes, there are usually enough funny moments that I am thoroughly entertained.
Also, I adore Rukia.
I actually love watching all the characters, particularly Urahara of the somewhat illegal storefront, and there's something about the zany energy among all of them and the extremely expressive faces that totally gets to me.
I do realize I am entering a somewhat problematic arc of the manga now, but.... I can't help it! The chibis, they kill!
rilina kept blogging about it. Then I watched eps. 1-9 of the anime. Then I stalled out for a while. Then I saw it at the library. Ahhhh, library, how I love you! How you are such a portal to new and addictive series!Anyhow, Kurosaki Ichigo is just your normal teenage manga guy -- he has bright orange hair and as such, is teased at school, is extremely grumpy, and, oh yeah, he can see ghosts and has a Tragic Past with regards to his dead mother. Somehow, he gets the powers of Soul Reaper Kuchiki Rukia, and she basically stays to train him to use them to defeat Hollows, dead spirits who have become malicious. Rukia illustrates various fine points of the Soul Reaper universe with bunnies. Rukia is gruff, no-nonsense, honorable, grumpy, and extremely cool, and does a hilarious impersonation of a standard shoujo heroine when she wants something from Ichigo or his classmates. Rukia is possibly the least shoujo person ever.
I adore Rukia.
I like Ichigo well enough, but I actually like most of the supporting characters better, particularly his sister Karin, who routinely tries to beat up their dad. And I didn't think that I would like D-cup class airhead Orihime, except she's airheaded in a very peculiar way, and I like her oddness. And I adore Tatsumi, who is very attached to Orihime and very protective of her. I also adore Chad, who is large and muscular and scary-looking, except he has such a soft heart that he will rescue doomed parakeets.
The story arcs themselves aren't actually that interesting, but I adore Kubo's artwork. It's somewhat angular and rough, but still stylized, and he does the best grumpy chibis ever.
Oh, also, there's a teddy bear/lion plushie that thinks he's in love with Rukia. Rukia, naturally, reacts to this by ignoring him and taping him to toilets.
Have I mentioned I adore Rukia?
I've actually had a hard time getting into Naruto because of the art, despite the fact that Kishimoto's story and characters are more interesting to me. But Kubo draws fight scenes that I can actually follow, and even if I do get bored during all the fight scenes, there are usually enough funny moments that I am thoroughly entertained.
Also, I adore Rukia.
I actually love watching all the characters, particularly Urahara of the somewhat illegal storefront, and there's something about the zany energy among all of them and the extremely expressive faces that totally gets to me.
I do realize I am entering a somewhat problematic arc of the manga now, but.... I can't help it! The chibis, they kill!