Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Moral lesson?
I didn't enjoy this manga as much as I did reading the comics but I must say that this was a fairly easier read in comparison. Everything seemed to flow and I did not feel overwhelmed with too much text or too much image in the panels. It was sort of a simple piece in my opinion and also my first manga. I believe the main idea here was learning a lesson of not underestimating people or not taking certain things for granted. In this case Mimio was underestimated from the beginning and ends up giving his life to rescue his friends and save the world. It reminds me of a fable or didactic story which are usually intended to teach a moral lesson to the readers. I am not sure if this is a trend with manga but that is the idea I'm given.
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It was interesting that you mentioned the speech bubbles in your post. I thought that the font really stuck out to me as a feature that made it hard for me to read. In comparison with the orange tinged sepia paper and Japanese characters, it seemed like this print was unfaithful to the original form of Tezuka. This is obviously a product of translation, but would it have been so difficult as to hand write the translation mimicking Tezuka's hand-writing? Isn't flattery the greatest form of expression?
ReplyDeleteJust food for thought :)