From: pckyip@athena.mit.edu (Patrick C Yip)
Subject: Re: Usenet Manga Titles List v2.0
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:02:55 GMT

In article <axolotl.703329953@syzygy> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou) writes:
> >I'm a fan for Ryoichi Ikegami's art, but not his general choice of authors.
> >OKnS is almost like a Smiling Freeman type story, which I don't like all that 
> >much.  If that's the general feeling, then that might be the reason why it 
> >ended so abruptly (Dave: Wha!?  Is that all!?).
>
>It ENDED?  Geez!  I wondered why it hadn't been in SS for a while. :-)

Yes, it ended, with a strangely inconclusive ending. I think it must be 
because of the SHONEN JUMP SYNDROME: Forced to end. The author might have
a grand plan of the life of Onritsuin Kumomaru. It would take the story
well into the war with China, Pacific War and so on. (The story happened
around 1930-1936 I think) But it's forced to end before that. After the
"final" struggle with Kamijima (sp?) and his "steel-teeth", the story 
ends with Kumomaru entrust all the fortune of his clan to a Swiss Bank,
with the will of contributing the money for peace cause in case of his
death, and then Kumomaru and her French girlfriend travel around the world...

>I didn't like Freeman much, but I loved OKnS, or at least what
>I saw of it.  If it's over, that's real disappointing, especially
>considering the terrible quality of its replacement(?) (like Koutei Senshi,
>probably the most appallingly drawn manga I've ever seen.)

Don't know about Koutei Senshi, but to be honest, I don't find myself
attracted to OKnS either. The story in OKnS is kinda dull, lacking in
tension. It looked promising at start, but the story went downward at 
the end of the European tour. Adding oriental fairies and airship fleet
just adds to the bizzareness of the story. 

I agree with Dave. I like Ryouichi Ikegami's art, but not his choice of
writers. He already doesn't have the talent of writing stories, but does
he have a problem in choosing good stories too?

>New version of the list out shortly -- a few kind souls have done a lot
>of fixing up.  It looks like we should try to incorporate it with the list
>posted in fj.rec.comics, too.

BTW since the compilation of the Mangazine List, there are quite a few
changes to titles in those magazines. Maybe we need some amendment now.

>Iain Sinclair   axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au                             ne cede.

Iain, is the Ax.gif at ultima.socs.uts.edu.au your portrait?
I don't know whether the Q-taro like creature in eain.gif appears in any
manga. It's possible that it's one of the product's creation in its manga
style packaging. You see, manga isn't just storytelling, it's a kind of
popular art!

<<Self-appointed High Priest of the Cult of Urd, Belldandy and Skuld>> :-)

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