MUST SEE: Slow burn, but well worth it. When it starts to cook it boils over hard for the rest of the film!
PLOT: When a bright high school student with memory loss enters a national talent show to help her struggling family, she finds her ordinary life flipped upside down by the sudden arrival of mysterious strangers seemingly connected to her past.
YEAR: 2018
GENRE: Action, Sci-Fi & Mystery
ROTTEN SCORE: 89 Critics & 87 Audience
SIDE NOTE: As good as this film is the sequel is terrible & a DO NOT SEE!
SPECIAL EDITION SUNDAY: I didn’t just read one TPB - I read the entire series (Volumes 1–4).
YAY - This series is a must-have! Seriously, go order it NOW! It’s the perfect twisted fairy tale for adults - dark, strange, and incredibly compelling. The almost Disney-animation-esque quality of the artwork creates a fantastic contrast with the story’s violent, grotesque, and often disturbing subject matter. I totally loved it!
RIP: Hubert Boulard, the writer of The Ogre Gods, died in February 2020 at 49 years old. It’s especially bittersweet knowing that he and artist Bertrand Gatignol had already completed the four-book saga before his passing, meaning his story was able to reach its intended conclusion rather than being left unfinished, but he never got to see the fourth book published.
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DORK PLAN: I’m going to read one TPB a day from my 5,000+ strong TPB collection. I’ll post the one I read here the next day with a YAY or NAY, and maybe a line or two about what I thought. NOTE: Got a TPB you want me to read? Drop it in the comments! If I have it, I’ll give it a review.
YAY! It’s funny - I’ve loved everything I have ever read by Naoki Urasawa, which should have made this book a no-brainer - BUT - I was hesitant to pick it up. I don’t know if it was because it had a co-writer (Takashi Nagasaki), the bat thingy, or simply because it didn’t look like my kind of thing.
But, of course - I’m an idiot - and really enjoyed this book! I’m definitely looking forward to reading more of the series and suggest you check it out!
DORK PLAN: I’m going to read one TPB a day from my 5,000+ strong TPB collection. I’ll post the one I read here the next day with a YAY or NAY, and maybe a line or two about what I thought. NOTE: Got a TPB you want me to read? Drop it in the comments! If I have it, I’ll give it a review.
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