Comments on: Tsubasa: Those with Wings Vol. 1 and Fruits Basket Vol. 1 http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2009/05/31/tsubasa-those-with-wings-vol-1-and-fruits-basket-vol-1/ A School Library Journal Blog Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:11:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Amourdutigre http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2009/05/31/tsubasa-those-with-wings-vol-1-and-fruits-basket-vol-1/#comment-1022 Amourdutigre Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:38:37 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2009/05/31/tsubasa-those-with-wings-vol-1-and-fruits-basket-vol-1/#comment-1022 As big of a fan of Fruits Basket as I am, I actualy like Tsubasa better. And despite the vast majority of people that think that Takaya's artwork improved as Tsubasa came to an end, I actually liked the first part of the series better, art wise. I much prefer the Kotobuki of the first part of the manga over the "new and improved" Kotobuki of the cover of volume one. There is something very special about the little waif like theif in the manga, and something decidedly grey alien-esq about the cover Kotobuki on volume one. As charming and silly as Fruits Basket was, I was quite taken by the Tsubasa story and universe. Though some of the story line is a bit unbelievable, especially the Matrix like plot in the last volume, I can actually visualize a world and society that has been damaged as the Tsubasa world was. I will never be able to imagine in real life a group of guys that POOF! transform into animals when hugged by a girl(fun though it would be). I do hope Takaya sensei will someday draw another story like Tsubasa, with that special artwork style that intrigued me no end and would not let me put the series down until I finished it all. ADT As big of a fan of Fruits Basket as I am, I actualy like Tsubasa better. And despite the vast majority of people that think that Takaya’s artwork improved as Tsubasa came to an end, I actually liked the first part of the series better, art wise. I much prefer the Kotobuki of the first part of the manga over the “new and improved” Kotobuki of the cover of volume one. There is something very special about the little waif like theif in the manga, and something decidedly grey alien-esq about the cover Kotobuki on volume one.

As charming and silly as Fruits Basket was, I was quite taken by the Tsubasa story and universe. Though some of the story line is a bit unbelievable, especially the Matrix like plot in the last volume, I can actually visualize a world and society that has been damaged as the Tsubasa world was. I will never be able to imagine in real life a group of guys that POOF! transform into animals when hugged by a girl(fun though it would be). I do hope Takaya sensei will someday draw another story like Tsubasa, with that special artwork style that intrigued me no end and would not let me put the series down until I finished it all.

ADT

]]> By: kelakagandy http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2009/05/31/tsubasa-those-with-wings-vol-1-and-fruits-basket-vol-1/#comment-1023 kelakagandy Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:00:23 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2009/05/31/tsubasa-those-with-wings-vol-1-and-fruits-basket-vol-1/#comment-1023 "We get a glimpse of future volumes at the end in a thank-you message from the author, and it seems like the art has improved." Afraid not. That was written years after the end of the series by Takaya for the new "bunko" (sort of translated as "omnibus") verison in Japan (which is why Tokyopop is publishing it in the omnibus format and why the cover art is so much better also) “We get a glimpse of future volumes at the end in a thank-you message from the author, and it seems like the art has improved.”

Afraid not. That was written years after the end of the series by Takaya for the new “bunko” (sort of translated as “omnibus”) verison in Japan (which is why Tokyopop is publishing it in the omnibus format and why the cover art is so much better also)

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