GEN Manga is Indie Manga from the Tokyo Underground.
GEN Manga was made to give fans an exclusive look at real doujinshi, otherwise known as indie manga, that they had heard about, but until now, unable to get their hands on.
In its essence, doujinshi is manga traded among other manga artists. Manga for manga lovers!
Sorako lives an ordinary life. And this is an ordinary story. She has friends and family, loves her dog, thinks about life, and occasionally looks for work (kinda). These are the adventures into a typical girl's life.
Review:
I got this ebook from Netgalley in return of an honest review.
Like I have mentioned before, I am not used at all to the Manga/Comic Book style of writing and reading experience, so this was a new adventure for me.
Yet again, this isn't a big action kind of book. It is a manga about a normal girl living her life, through heartbreaks, lost dogs and part-time jobs. And I must say that made her sound very real. She was a real person.
The art gave this a very special touch: it was so perfect, almost surreal, but that, somehow, made me feel like I was actually looking at real-life situations of a selected group of people. Everything was so beautifully drawn I actually wished I could be in there.
Now, although I really enjoyed this book, it had a couple of flaws I can't overlook. First (and I believe this might be my problem, not the story's), I couldn't relate to the main character at all: yes, she felt like a real person, but not exactly a very likeable real person. I felt she was kind of naïve and I couldn't like her personality and the majority of her actions at all.
Also, most of the story was very confusing. I reckon it lacked a logical sequence of events and a little more explanation on what was going on. I guess this could be a characteristic of mangas and comic books, but I still felt it had potential to be a little bit more than it ended up being.
With all that, I still very much recommend this to manga fans and I will definitely be continuing my manga/comic book adventure.
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