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vol.1 はないが vol.2 はレビュー
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5.0 out of 5 stars Literature From Across the Ocean, June 24, 2009
By Tim Lasiuta "Comic Fan 42" (Red Deer, Alberta) - See all my reviews
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Why didn't this come out sooner???
`Traditional' manga, for westerners, is packed with emotives, and cultural references we do not understand.
As standard as the page explaining terms of endearment, and a sample of what the manga looks like in
Japanese are, such features do not always make them easy for us.
Enter Faust. As the name implies, this is something more. It is explosive, vibrant, larger than life, and yet so
`literal'. For instance, Magical Girl Risuka by Nisiosion is incredible. If you can imagine MCSI (Magical Crime
Scene Investigation), then you have the gist of this story. Time travel, personal vacuums, and blood sacrifice
are all important themes in this mystery. "Jagtiger" examines the laws of robotics from a synthetic
human/military standpoint. To kill or not to kill, that is the question. Time travel fiction is addressed cleverly
in "Where the Wind Blows" by (Otsuichi/Obata). What would you do if you knew you were going to kill the
one you love? Even the traditional manga in the back (front) of the book is outstanding. "Iron Man Military Unit"
is probably the best illustrated fiction in the book, but the remaining stories also stand out too.
This is the manga equivalent of Galaxy, Future, and Astounding all wrapped into one. This "Flight" of fantasy
will take you beyond manga shores and fictional skies, your imagination will soar as boundaries blurr and manga
fiction becomes fiction. Good literature is good literature, no matter the language or nationality.
Faust proves that.
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Tim Lasiuta