Oh, Kamijyo can be pretty expressive ... I'm thinking, for example, of Bontenmaru's face when he's saying goodbye to Muramasa for what he knows is the last time, and then later on when he's talking about Muramasa to the crowd of Mibu townsmen who confront them when they first get to the city (after the fight with Kitsunebi), and also Hotaru's face after the big fight with Kyo, first when he concedes the fight and then when he tells Kyo to "end it." (There are lots of other examples too, but I actually turn to those pages just to look at the faces, sometimes.)
They're not the wildly expressive faces that Kubo uses in Bleach, though. I'll fully admit that Kubo is more graphically bold. And yes, the fight scenes can get a little dense in SDK. I guess reading ahead in the scanlations has helped with "which Mibu is which!" Also, if you've been reading the English tankoubon volumes only, you're only just starting to get into what's really going on with the Mibu. It's very complex and tangled.
The boobs biz is pretty funny, especially when you consider that kimono were designed with a more-or-less tubular figure in mind! Of course, Okuni and Mahiro in SDK would fit right in with the Bleach assistant captains ... . I've been fussing about the fact that there are no nice middle-aged looking women in Bleach, either, and there could have easily been some, at least in the university scenes, and among the 4th division healers. I guess Unohana is supposed to look older, but she doesn't really ... .
Oh, yeah, Urahara is one of my favorites too! The rebellious types are always fun (I'll talk about him some more when I do the remaining volumes). Ukitake is the nice-looking guy with the long, light-colored hair, right? See, Byakuya would be more my type if he was acting more tortured. I have a soft spot for Shinrei in SDK, and that should tell you something right there - he is so painfully sincere. (Of course we all know who my real favorite is, though.)
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Date: 2007-07-10 01:49 am (UTC)Oh, Kamijyo can be pretty expressive ... I'm thinking, for example, of Bontenmaru's face when he's saying goodbye to Muramasa for what he knows is the last time, and then later on when he's talking about Muramasa to the crowd of Mibu townsmen who confront them when they first get to the city (after the fight with Kitsunebi), and also Hotaru's face after the big fight with Kyo, first when he concedes the fight and then when he tells Kyo to "end it." (There are lots of other examples too, but I actually turn to those pages just to look at the faces, sometimes.)
They're not the wildly expressive faces that Kubo uses in Bleach, though. I'll fully admit that Kubo is more graphically bold. And yes, the fight scenes can get a little dense in SDK. I guess reading ahead in the scanlations has helped with "which Mibu is which!" Also, if you've been reading the English tankoubon volumes only, you're only just starting to get into what's really going on with the Mibu. It's very complex and tangled.
The boobs biz is pretty funny, especially when you consider that kimono were designed with a more-or-less tubular figure in mind! Of course, Okuni and Mahiro in SDK would fit right in with the Bleach assistant captains ... . I've been fussing about the fact that there are no nice middle-aged looking women in Bleach, either, and there could have easily been some, at least in the university scenes, and among the 4th division healers. I guess Unohana is supposed to look older, but she doesn't really ... .
Oh, yeah, Urahara is one of my favorites too! The rebellious types are always fun (I'll talk about him some more when I do the remaining volumes). Ukitake is the nice-looking guy with the long, light-colored hair, right? See, Byakuya would be more my type if he was acting more tortured. I have a soft spot for Shinrei in SDK, and that should tell you something right there - he is so painfully sincere. (Of course we all know who my real favorite is, though.)