Comments on: Danielle Leigh's Reading Diary -- 2/26/09

By: Diamond changes hit Seven Seas · Manga News

Diamond changes hit Seven Seas · Manga News — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:15:56 +0000

[...] Biased Manga) Connie on vol. 8 of Elemental Gelade (Slightly Biased Manga) Danielle Leigh on vol. 2 of Higurashi: When They Cry (Comics Should Be Good!) Eva Volin on vol. 1 of Honey Hunt (ICv2) Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 [...]

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Diamond changes hit Seven Seas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:40:33 +0000

By: Kenotic

Kenotic — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:14:29 +0000

Good review! I enjoy that the series turns a lot of tropes on their head -- and all of the sudden it turns from "This is kind of creepy" (i.e. Cute girls all throwing themselves at the main guy) to "This is REALLY creepy" (i.e. Cute Girls, random vehicles, and possibly a whole town trying to kill the main guy). I've seen the anime series, and the best part is simply that the characters turn out to be smart -- neither dumb harem cliches nor horror movie cliches. Some of the lead girls all have great deductive reasoning skills, and Keiichi is actually quite ingenious and have a leader's mind.

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:31:01 +0000

hi Dave! Well, I'm certainly not the audience for shonen-harem shows (like Love Hina, Negima and so forth) as they tend to bore me to death. I think simply being aware that they exist and having some knowledge about them is enough as far as I can tell.

I know that Higurashi has several different "iterations" and the Abducted by Demons Arc (I believe complete in two volumes) is just the first one...so I'm not really sure what will happen in other versions of the story.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:03:34 +0000

Every time I read something about this series I wonder why I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. The concept really seems like something I would be into, I love this kind of subversive stuff that plays with genre expectations.

I guess my question would be if there is a reliance upon preexisting knowledge of harem manga cliches to fully appreciate the story here? I've never really been all that interested in the genre and consequently I can't think of a single one that I've actually read.

By: Grico

Grico — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:48:07 +0000

Yeah the series sound pretty interesting in a disturbing way. I'll have to pick it up at some point.

By: James Moar

James Moar — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:59:44 +0000

I saw the anime (which isn't fanservice-heavy), and there are plenty of big twists and reveals to come.

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:11:19 +0000

Yeah, that was what was so boring about volume 1. Now I think that the fanservice was purposefully so cliched, in order to lull the reader into a false sense of security. Well. It certainly worked on me!

By: Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:08:55 +0000

You have succeeded in making me want to give this series another chance. I read part of vol. 1 in a Border's a few months ago, but got turned off by all the boobs going "Byoing!" and put it back on the shelf.