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Manga Review - "Sketchbook"
I enjoy manga. Especially Comedy series, and the such. My first and favorite manga would have to be "Azumanga Daioh", by Kiyohiko Azumanga. As a Gateway Series into both Manga and Anime for me, its Silliness found in the normal school life was what attracted me originally. Following that, I have enjoyed even more series, but I have now found another which has stood out. This series is "Sketchbook".

Sketchbook, is a yonkoma by Kobako Totan. The story, or what little there is, follows the main character and the Art Club which she is part of. The story, while at most times slow to nonexistent, is not the centerpiece, as is so in most yonkomas, but the Author has managed to capture the best use of the style. Here is an example of that humor.

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Interestingly enough, the manga itself is similar in many respects to the two other major yonkomas which the english audience know of, Lucky Star and Azumanaga Daioh. Whether this is a result of just the style and strengths of the Yonkoma, or the way in which Japanese humor materializes itself in this format is something I do not know. I suggest giving this a read, If you find yourself to be bored of the average Comedy Manga style.

Until next time, I bid you some parting words.

-If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. -Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1827)





 
 
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