To Terra… 1
Posted: March 1, 2007 Filed under: To Terra... 1 Comment »Yay! Classic manga! My brain short-circuited after reading Bride of Deimos and I’ve gotten on a classic manga kick. I’m waiting for some other series to finish before I start reading Swan, but expect some other old stuff soon, mostly girly.
This is a manly manga drawn by one of the queens of girl comics. I had no idea this ran in a male magazine, though the male main character probably would have tipped me off when I started reading. I’m not into big sweeping epics or space operas or anything remotely resembling this series, so I bought it purely because it was old.
I was extremely confused at first, because an explanation is not given until one of the main characters is well into a strange situation. I thought all humans turned into Mu for awhile, even while he was being hunted, and I just did not understand what was going on. I loved Soldier Blue though, and I really liked the parts that took place in Mu society, and I loved the character that Soldier brought in to live with the Mu. There was a sharp contrast between the ostracized Mu and the humans. Somehow the Mu society seemed… more human than the extremely regulated human society.
The regulations in the human society were great in their degrees of strictness. I didn’t like the human characters as much, but the things going on around them were pretty good, and it will be interesting to see what happens when everyone gets to Terra. Actually, I lied, I did like that main human character that was the best-loved student by the computer, and I liked Sam too.
Mostly, I liked the old art. Let’s have more of that in other series please.
[...] 1 of Juvenile Orion and vol. 3 of Tail of the Moon. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie checks out vol. 1 of To Terra and volumes 1, 2, and 3 of W Juliet. The Library Journal reviews vol. 1 of E’S (scroll down; [...]