Ballad of a Shinigami 1
Posted: July 6, 2009 Filed under: Ballad of a Shinigami Leave a comment »I reviewed this for the Manga Recon, so you can check out the review over there.
I discuss shinigami a bit in my review… but what I say is true. For as many manga have shinigami in them (less than I thought, after I did a tally, but they are all very popular series), the shinigami do very little deals with the dead in the popular stories. In fact, Full Moon is the most shinigami-tastic experience you can get as far as dealing with the actual consequences of death, and that’s a series about a little girl with throat cancer becoming a popular pop idol.
Ballad of a Shinigami is actually less about the shinigami and more about the people dealing with death. It’s much different from how I imagined it, but on the other hand, I think I like it better this way.
