Comments on: Review: Tokyo Is My Garden http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/ Never Safe For Work Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:47:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Bible thumping http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-44854 MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Bible thumping Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:06:26 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/#comment-44854 [...] Reviews: It’s a Garden party: Christopher Butcher and Dave White give their opinions of Tokyo Is My Garden. At the MangaCast, Mangamaniac Julie reviews Maybe I’m Your Steppin’ Stone, BrianP checks out vol. 7 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Ed Chavez has audio reviews of vol. 1 of Kyoukaku DOG’s and vol. 2 of The Last Uniform and vol. 2 of Unbalance Unbalance and vol. 1 of The Guin Saga Manga. James Fleenor gives his first impression of vol. 1 of Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time at Anime Sentinel. Ken Haley reviews the adult title vol. 1 of Manga Sutra at PopCultureShock. Erica Friedman critiques vol. 1 of Girl Friends. Connie checks out vol. 1 of Mai the Psychic Girl, vol. 4 of Go Go Heaven, vol. 10 of Phoenix, vol. 1 of Suppli, vol. 14 of Lupin III, vol. 3 of MPD-Psycho, and vol. 6 of +Anima at Slightly Biased Manga. Julie reviews vol. 8 of Kage Tora and vol. 2 of Kanna at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Tangognat looks at two of CMX’s mature titles, Variante and Orfina. Kethylia reads vol. 2 of Little Queen. David Welsh has some comments on A.I. Revolution and Beauty Pop at Precocious Curmudgeon. At Active Anime Davey C. Jones reads vol. 17 of Zatch Bell and vol. 6 of Hayate the Combat Butler, Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 7 of Chibi Vampire, vol. 7 of Kami Kaze, and vol. 2 of Shinsoku Kiss, and Sandra Scholes sums up vol. 6 of Aegis. Johanna Draper Carlson enjoys vol. 1 of Gon at Comics Worth Reading. At Soliloquy in Blue, Michelle reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Love*Com and vol. 3 of Boys Over Flowers. Youth corner: At Manga Xanadu, daughter Jenny gives a kids-eye-view on vol. 1 of Dragon Drive, and at Newsarama, mom Tracy and daughters Shelby (12) and Sarah (9) give their take on all four volumes of Miki Falls. [...] [...] Reviews: It’s a Garden party: Christopher Butcher and Dave White give their opinions of Tokyo Is My Garden. At the MangaCast, Mangamaniac Julie reviews Maybe I’m Your Steppin’ Stone, BrianP checks out vol. 7 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Ed Chavez has audio reviews of vol. 1 of Kyoukaku DOG’s and vol. 2 of The Last Uniform and vol. 2 of Unbalance Unbalance and vol. 1 of The Guin Saga Manga. James Fleenor gives his first impression of vol. 1 of Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time at Anime Sentinel. Ken Haley reviews the adult title vol. 1 of Manga Sutra at PopCultureShock. Erica Friedman critiques vol. 1 of Girl Friends. Connie checks out vol. 1 of Mai the Psychic Girl, vol. 4 of Go Go Heaven, vol. 10 of Phoenix, vol. 1 of Suppli, vol. 14 of Lupin III, vol. 3 of MPD-Psycho, and vol. 6 of +Anima at Slightly Biased Manga. Julie reviews vol. 8 of Kage Tora and vol. 2 of Kanna at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Tangognat looks at two of CMX’s mature titles, Variante and Orfina. Kethylia reads vol. 2 of Little Queen. David Welsh has some comments on A.I. Revolution and Beauty Pop at Precocious Curmudgeon. At Active Anime Davey C. Jones reads vol. 17 of Zatch Bell and vol. 6 of Hayate the Combat Butler, Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 7 of Chibi Vampire, vol. 7 of Kami Kaze, and vol. 2 of Shinsoku Kiss, and Sandra Scholes sums up vol. 6 of Aegis. Johanna Draper Carlson enjoys vol. 1 of Gon at Comics Worth Reading. At Soliloquy in Blue, Michelle reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Love*Com and vol. 3 of Boys Over Flowers. Youth corner: At Manga Xanadu, daughter Jenny gives a kids-eye-view on vol. 1 of Dragon Drive, and at Newsarama, mom Tracy and daughters Shelby (12) and Sarah (9) give their take on all four volumes of Miki Falls. [...]

]]> By: Dave White http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-44369 Dave White Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:53:37 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/#comment-44369 Chris, thanks for finally sharing your thoughts. I think I agree with your sentiments in general, though I still think the work has some serious flaws that prevent me from enjoying it to the extent that you have. As for Get A Life, I think one of the things that may have killed that is the people who are likely to have been excited about it had already been exposed to the later volumes through D&Q #3 and #4. Chris, thanks for finally sharing your thoughts. I think I agree with your sentiments in general, though I still think the work has some serious flaws that prevent me from enjoying it to the extent that you have.

As for Get A Life, I think one of the things that may have killed that is the people who are likely to have been excited about it had already been exposed to the later volumes through D&Q #3 and #4.

]]> By: Chris http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-43991 Chris Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:19:16 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/#comment-43991 Sorry, I didn't mean to "pwn" you, I just really liked it :) As for how they became attracted to one another, you've never heard of love at first sight? :) - Chris Sorry, I didn’t mean to “pwn” you, I just really liked it :)

As for how they became attracted to one another, you’ve never heard of love at first sight? :)

- Chris

]]> By: Brigid http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-43989 Brigid Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:13:48 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/#comment-43989 Pwned! Chris, I thought I had waited a safe amount of time and that you weren't going to write a review that was orders of magnitude better than mine. You win. You're right about my expectations of the story. The thing that felt flattest to me was the beginning of the romance, when Kimie goes from anonymous character in the room to David's lover. I want to see a process of discovery, maybe even a bit of tension, between the time two people meet and the time they become lovers. Here, I have no idea what attracted them to each other. It got more interesting after that, although as I said in my review, not interesting enough for me. I guess I expect more conflict. Maybe I have been reading too much shoujo manga. Anyway, thanks for inspiring me to finish the review. Now I can start working on the other 1,137 books in my stack. Pwned! Chris, I thought I had waited a safe amount of time and that you weren’t going to write a review that was orders of magnitude better than mine. You win.

You’re right about my expectations of the story. The thing that felt flattest to me was the beginning of the romance, when Kimie goes from anonymous character in the room to David’s lover. I want to see a process of discovery, maybe even a bit of tension, between the time two people meet and the time they become lovers. Here, I have no idea what attracted them to each other. It got more interesting after that, although as I said in my review, not interesting enough for me. I guess I expect more conflict. Maybe I have been reading too much shoujo manga.

Anyway, thanks for inspiring me to finish the review. Now I can start working on the other 1,137 books in my stack.

]]> By: Eric http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-43964 Eric Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:58:13 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/02/08/tokyo-is-my-garden/#comment-43964 I, too, loved TOKYO IS MY GARDEN and recommend it highly. Some of my friends continue to resist these Fanfare books. They don't know what they're missing. I, too, loved TOKYO IS MY GARDEN and recommend it highly. Some of my friends continue to resist these Fanfare books. They don’t know what they’re missing.

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