on a day out with mother / gundam novel
I never understand retail therapy. When I have things weighing my mind, I feel like whatever I buy will just disappoint me in the long run. Or is it because I pay for my own goods and am not at all swimming in money?
On another note, found a link to a Gundam 00 novel 1 review, and this part is interesting:The book includes an afterword, written by head writer Yosuke Kuroda. In this, he expresses his satisfaction with the book and explains that all the new information has been confirmed between himself, director Seiji Mizushima and science consultant Tomohiro Chiba.
Which confirms a little more weight to where the novels stand in the canon hierarchy. From the review, the novel seem to do exactly what I want them to do:But author Noboru Kimura takes things in a more clever and interesting direction. Though the book covers areas of story we already know, it doesn't simply repeat the animation scene for scene. Rather, we often instead focus on the actions and reactions of characters who didn't get to weigh in on the show. Whilst the pair of interventions that announce Celestial Being's existence to the world is followed closely, later interventions are instead given only a passing reference as we instead focus on the responses and inner thoughts of characters such as Graham, Sergei and Marina. It's fair to say that whilst trying to present a range of opinions the show itself would understandably show ultimate preference to Celestial Being, so the novel wisely chooses to supplement that and give the wealth of wider characters more input. In particular, Kimura takes ample advantage of the ability prose offers to directly get into characters' heads and present inner thoughts that couldn't really be explained on screen without clumsy exposition.
Still planning to wait until all 8 volumes are out before ordering. +_+
On another note, found a link to a Gundam 00 novel 1 review, and this part is interesting:The book includes an afterword, written by head writer Yosuke Kuroda. In this, he expresses his satisfaction with the book and explains that all the new information has been confirmed between himself, director Seiji Mizushima and science consultant Tomohiro Chiba.
Which confirms a little more weight to where the novels stand in the canon hierarchy. From the review, the novel seem to do exactly what I want them to do:But author Noboru Kimura takes things in a more clever and interesting direction. Though the book covers areas of story we already know, it doesn't simply repeat the animation scene for scene. Rather, we often instead focus on the actions and reactions of characters who didn't get to weigh in on the show. Whilst the pair of interventions that announce Celestial Being's existence to the world is followed closely, later interventions are instead given only a passing reference as we instead focus on the responses and inner thoughts of characters such as Graham, Sergei and Marina. It's fair to say that whilst trying to present a range of opinions the show itself would understandably show ultimate preference to Celestial Being, so the novel wisely chooses to supplement that and give the wealth of wider characters more input. In particular, Kimura takes ample advantage of the ability prose offers to directly get into characters' heads and present inner thoughts that couldn't really be explained on screen without clumsy exposition.
Still planning to wait until all 8 volumes are out before ordering. +_+