it's been a long time since i came around;

[confidantes]

WHEW. sorry for my absence~ i've been super busy, with moving my sister and with work and unpacking all of the crap i've somehow accumulated over the past two years back at home (yeah...i'm unpacking my high school stuff i hadn't bothered with at the end of last year too LOL). so i apologize for not replying to any of your comments, but hopefully

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[cuvier]

uhm omg eyeshield 21 is so underappreciated. writing + pacing + art were all pretty good from start to finish, especially the art, murata has some serious skillz and everyone actually looks different from one another, which is a rarity in shounen manga these days

lol i love tenipuri too but wow what even is that new prince of tennis whatever that konomi is putting out these days. so much second-hand embarrassment.

[confidantes]

YESSSS. one of my favorite things about the manga is that visually, each panel is so dynamic and draws the reader in. which is why i don't think i'll ever be able to watch the anime, because there's just no way it can have the same sort of impact on screen, i think. and yes, you've touched upon something i hadn't thought of before -- the characters are all really unique-looking, not only in just costume and hair and etc., but in silhouette and body structure too, which i love, and is unfortunately a rarity these days, as you pointed out. Y SO UNDERAPPRECIATED, MY CREYS. ;_;

haha, i know right? i couldn't read more than a few chapters of new prince of tennis. it was just way too overdone and even by the end of the original tenipuri series, everyone basically had superpowers already. :|

[cuvier]

i totally know what you mean!! like i'd spend a good ten minutes staring at a colour spread or a particular panel or something, the art is so detailed

lmao ikr, everyone's power level is over 9000 :') also like this page -- let's forget about tezuka behaving like he's forty, these guys have to actually be forty.

[confidantes]

YES, i do the same. i love the angles murata-sensei draws too! they're always so dramatic and create the illusion of action really well. ahhh, i can't stop flailing over the awesome art~ xD

LOL, well put. xD OH GOD, WHAT EVEN. i also find it impossible that in the original POT series, that these middle schoolers can be so talented at tennis. >_> i mean, tezuka had better tennis skills than like, pete sampras, and i was like "...this is not possible..." lol.