Ohh, man, if you've only seen the anime of Kyo, you've got a lot coming! The anime, from what I understand, covers roughly vols. 1-10 with a little of the stuff from the Mibu Arc - the arc of the rest of the story - thrown in and hashed up. The real story is deep in angst and character history (OK, not quite as much as Saiyuki, but a helluva lot more than any of the other shounen manga I've read so far). You can probably skip the first two volumes - they're pretty bad, and you know the gist from the anime. The series ran to 38 volumes in Japan; the English volumes are at vol. 27, and stuff is really hitting the fan for our heroes ... and for some of the villains, too. (SDK has very complex villains, in the manga.)
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Date: 2008-03-28 04:05 am (UTC)Ohh, man, if you've only seen the anime of Kyo, you've got a lot coming! The anime, from what I understand, covers roughly vols. 1-10 with a little of the stuff from the Mibu Arc - the arc of the rest of the story - thrown in and hashed up. The real story is deep in angst and character history (OK, not quite as much as Saiyuki, but a helluva lot more than any of the other shounen manga I've read so far). You can probably skip the first two volumes - they're pretty bad, and you know the gist from the anime. The series ran to 38 volumes in Japan; the English volumes are at vol. 27, and stuff is really hitting the fan for our heroes ... and for some of the villains, too. (SDK has very complex villains, in the manga.)
And the art is much nicer in the manga ... here's an article-thing I wrote about an aspect of it back when I was starting my LJ (SDK was my first manga). And meganbmoore has a nice gallery of color covers and extras (from calendars and such).