A musing on the growing up and a child's relationship with their imagination, this meditative story about two boys and the ghosts that inhabits their school is perfectly pared with Matsumoto deceptively simple and striking style. My only complaint is the decision by the translators to replace the presumably hand drawn Japanese copy with a clunky slap serifed text which works against the comics visual style. Also every time I saw a sign I thought about the anonymous idiot who used the first san serifed type face with the word 'comic' in its title to replaced the hand drawn type. Huh.... I'm not entirely sure what I just read.I don't often understand these types of books.... but maybe there really isn't anything to understand and people who claim they do really are just trying to boost their egos. Who can say... this manga has some rave reviews, but there really wasn't anything special about it. The artwork was really distracting and hard to look at.... I know that was part Matsumoto-san's plan I'm sure... make everyone look gross and ugly because that's how their personalities are... and the only characters that matter have some sort of distinction from each other and don't look like alien pig species. But, that representation just didn't work for me. I found the art to be poorly executed and often hard to look at.The storyline was interesting in the aspect that these are relatively young children dealing with some rather deep issues. I do really like that aspect - I feel adults often treat kids as if they are stupid and aren't capable of much of anything other than annoying adults by being loud and out of control. But kids deal with things that affect them deeply just as much as we do. Yuki was dealing with something that was really real to him, and whether or not it really was or was his imagination, it was part of who he was. The adults and the other kids just wrote him off as a weirdo because they couldn't understand, because he wasn't like the rest of them. That is probably one of the few "points" of this manga that I get. But... I don't know... there really wasn't anything super special that really caught my attention. I liked the small cast of main characters (Yuki, Makoto, Ganz, and IQ)... the ending was interesting... I don't know... I wrote this as a status update, and it is pretty much exactly how I felt the entire time I was reading this: This is a very interesting and strange manga... some part of me likes it and some part of me is like "wtf?"
What do You think about GoGo Monster (2009)?
I have no idea what just happened, but I love it
—blehh
