Oh, yes, tons of dark secrets, and even the bad guys are compelling (especially once you get past the sort of introductory story arc).
I know the art is important to you, and SDK has a slight funky style - it's almost shoujo-ish in its detail, and you get many tiny frames around the main pictures on some pages - for example, you might have a stack of "reaction panels" for all the characters in a scene as something dramatic happens. It can be a little busy. Here are places to tale a look at SDK art:
meganbmoore has a gallery of SDK color stuff ... like Minekura, Kamijyo is rather better in color, from a sheer artistic viewpoint. This is a mix of covers, artbook stuff, and original manga extras.
meganb also did a summary of a significant scene involving my favorite SDK guy, Sanada Yukimura, in vol. 9 ... this will be spoiler-ish, but it will give you an example of fairly mature Kamijyo artwork in an action sequence.
I did a post about a particular style of multi-view picture Kamijyo likes to do. This was back when I hadn't read very many manga. I've since seen some other artists do the same thing - but not as often. (There's an example in Saiyuki in the scene where the ikkou first encounter Lirin, and she's just knocked the huge crab shikigami out of the way to rescue a kittycat.) Some of these pix are also spoilers, though.
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Date: 2008-05-05 05:53 pm (UTC)Oh, yes, tons of dark secrets, and even the bad guys are compelling (especially once you get past the sort of introductory story arc).
I know the art is important to you, and SDK has a slight funky style - it's almost shoujo-ish in its detail, and you get many tiny frames around the main pictures on some pages - for example, you might have a stack of "reaction panels" for all the characters in a scene as something dramatic happens. It can be a little busy. Here are places to tale a look at SDK art: