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[telophase]

Note to manga artists:

Your characters have feet. It would be nice to occasionally see them. None of us live in a world where we only see people from the mid-thigh up. Also please choose camera angles other than straight-on-shoulder-level periodically. It makes it look so much nicer.

(Yes, I'm going through Rumble Pak and Sakura Pak.)

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was. I wasn't impressed by anything in Rumble Pak, and Sakura Pak has so far one really nice story, a couple of pretty good ones with a few serious flaws, and then a bunch of forgettable stuff. I'm judging primarily by art, of course, and it'd be interesting to see what someone with more a focus on the writing would think.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Let me put it this way: did you read any stories that you thought were good? Or that you think I'd think were good? Did any of the dialogue read like it was spoken by witty people who were fluent in English?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

One.

Although to be honest, if I hate the art (and I know I'm picky), I can't get into the writing and I skim it so I don't pick up the story, so someone who's not as picky as I am about the art might find more than that to like.

I'm writing a longer review now, so it'll be up after a while. (What work?? It's spring break! Not that I have the days off or anything. :/)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Sometimes people who write sucky dialogue can construct a good plot, which you won't be able to make out if you skim. But if any of the dialogue reads like Babelfish, the whole thing will read like Babelfish, so skimming will identify that problem.

Anyone who's read a slush pile of any kind knows that if the first page is badly written, none of the rest of the pages will be good, so you may as well stop there. A well-written first page may cloak larger problems-- poor plotting, inconsistent characterization, and so forth-- but if the first page sucks, you're quite safe tossing the whole thing.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

What I want to know i why the hell didn't EigoMANGA's editors do any actual editing? I know they're soliciting for stories that have at least three issues already penciled and inked, but you'd think that some sort of professional pride would lead them to, say, want to fix the most obvious typoes and grammar-oes.