This Is A Song For You.
May. 1st, 2013 07:04 pmThe Full Moon wo Sagashite manga is so delightful. It's sad as well - it's certainly darker in tone than the anime, which rather took me by surprise; it seemed sillier at the beginning - but it's delightful. I love that all of Mitsuki's enemies inevitably end up becoming her best friends. Mitsuki is an irresistible force and she is going to befriend everyone.
(Speaking of Full Moon's dark side: I'm deeply perplexed by some of the decisions made in translation. The manga depicts several suicides, and yet when Takuto wants to swear he's restricted to the absurdly family-friendly 'Darn it!'
I am incapable of taking an exclamation of 'Darn it!' seriously. I'm sorry. I just can't do it.)
I also love that the manga contains a 'shut up' kiss that is genuinely just to shut someone up. It's not because of long-suppressed attraction that has bubbled over uncontrollably during an argument, no; it's just to shut someone up. And possibly for the kisser's amusement.
On a related note, manga Izumi is the best. I really, really love the bond he forms with Mitsuki; it's a shame that didn't make it into the anime. His backstory absolutely shattered my heart, too, which I wasn't expecting at all.
My animeverse OTP and I got off to a bit of a shaky start in the manga, but by halfway through I'd fallen for it again. Mitsuki/Takuto, my heart still belongs to you. I think I'm always going to love animeverse Mitsuki/Takuto a tiny bit more, though.
It's really difficult to decide whether I prefer the manga or the anime. They're very different. The art and pacing are better in the manga. I prefer manga Mitsuki, Izumi and possibly Jonathan* to their anime counterparts, but I prefer Takuto (and the Takuto/Mitsuki relationship), Meroko and Oshige in the anime. I adore the relationship between Mitsuki and Izumi in the manga, which is sadly something we don't really get in the anime, but the anime puts more emphasis on the Mitsuki-Takuto-Meroko connection, which I also adore. I like that Oshige and Wakaouji come to know about and communicate with the shinigami in the anime; I like what the manga does with Eichi. The anime made me sob wildly in a way the manga didn't; I certainly ended up more emotionally invested.
The manga is better overall, I'd say, but my love for fiction isn't determined by trifling things like quality. I own maybe four films on DVD and three of them are High School Musical.
I suppose I just love them both in different ways.
Even though Mitsuki/Takuto is where all my loyalties lie, my heart did sort of break for Eichi at the end of the manga. And I'm not a Takuto/Meroko person at all, but the 'Kokoro Liner Notes' extra at the very end of the final volume - the story of the first time Meroko told Takuto she loved him - was really cute and sad.
And now I've consumed the entire canon of Full Moon wo Sagashite! I feel slightly bereft. Still, I suppose this is good news for anyone still reading this; maybe I'll start talking about fandoms you're into! ahahaha, like that's going to happen, what's the next stupidly obscure thing I can post about non-stop for a month?
* JONATHAN. Jonathan is hilarious. I love that all the other shinigami look like attractive winged humans, and then Jonathan is just a cartoon ghost in a top hat. He looks ridiculously incongruous. It sort of makes me want to manip him into other places where he clearly doesn't belong. Alas, it's tricky to find good images of Jonathan, so you're spared my attempt to depict him as the third and best Winchester brother.
(Speaking of Full Moon's dark side: I'm deeply perplexed by some of the decisions made in translation. The manga depicts several suicides, and yet when Takuto wants to swear he's restricted to the absurdly family-friendly 'Darn it!'
I am incapable of taking an exclamation of 'Darn it!' seriously. I'm sorry. I just can't do it.)
I also love that the manga contains a 'shut up' kiss that is genuinely just to shut someone up. It's not because of long-suppressed attraction that has bubbled over uncontrollably during an argument, no; it's just to shut someone up. And possibly for the kisser's amusement.
On a related note, manga Izumi is the best. I really, really love the bond he forms with Mitsuki; it's a shame that didn't make it into the anime. His backstory absolutely shattered my heart, too, which I wasn't expecting at all.
My animeverse OTP and I got off to a bit of a shaky start in the manga, but by halfway through I'd fallen for it again. Mitsuki/Takuto, my heart still belongs to you. I think I'm always going to love animeverse Mitsuki/Takuto a tiny bit more, though.
It's really difficult to decide whether I prefer the manga or the anime. They're very different. The art and pacing are better in the manga. I prefer manga Mitsuki, Izumi and possibly Jonathan* to their anime counterparts, but I prefer Takuto (and the Takuto/Mitsuki relationship), Meroko and Oshige in the anime. I adore the relationship between Mitsuki and Izumi in the manga, which is sadly something we don't really get in the anime, but the anime puts more emphasis on the Mitsuki-Takuto-Meroko connection, which I also adore. I like that Oshige and Wakaouji come to know about and communicate with the shinigami in the anime; I like what the manga does with Eichi. The anime made me sob wildly in a way the manga didn't; I certainly ended up more emotionally invested.
The manga is better overall, I'd say, but my love for fiction isn't determined by trifling things like quality. I own maybe four films on DVD and three of them are High School Musical.
I suppose I just love them both in different ways.
Even though Mitsuki/Takuto is where all my loyalties lie, my heart did sort of break for Eichi at the end of the manga. And I'm not a Takuto/Meroko person at all, but the 'Kokoro Liner Notes' extra at the very end of the final volume - the story of the first time Meroko told Takuto she loved him - was really cute and sad.
And now I've consumed the entire canon of Full Moon wo Sagashite! I feel slightly bereft. Still, I suppose this is good news for anyone still reading this; maybe I'll start talking about fandoms you're into! ahahaha, like that's going to happen, what's the next stupidly obscure thing I can post about non-stop for a month?
* JONATHAN. Jonathan is hilarious. I love that all the other shinigami look like attractive winged humans, and then Jonathan is just a cartoon ghost in a top hat. He looks ridiculously incongruous. It sort of makes me want to manip him into other places where he clearly doesn't belong. Alas, it's tricky to find good images of Jonathan, so you're spared my attempt to depict him as the third and best Winchester brother.
