You may already know this sleeve! It began to serialize 12 years ago at the hand of Jun Mochizuki , and arrived in Spain thanks to Editorial Norma in 2012 in a very careful edition that brought stickers and a series of boxes to collect the series Complete Now let s take a general look, without entering spoilers , for any possible interested party who decided to wait for all the volumes before starting to read.
If this sleeve is characterized, it is not to give a respite the reader. The story begins with the age majority ceremony of Oz Vassalius. A prison called the abyss , incriminating it for ... exist.
In the abyss you can not find rest and suffer the attack of the calls chains : monsters that live it and that can also manifest itself in the outer world by human beacons, to those who provide power, and even the capacity of Alter the past . Shortly after he knows Alice , a very powerful chain known as B-Rabbit : The only one who can adopt a human form.
After forming a pact, both manage to leave the abyss, and the plot begins to find out what the crime that Oz committed to be punished in that way. To this is attached to the objective of collecting Alice s memories. However, when he returned to his world, 10 years have passed on those who have changed many things, although we find characters who have not even aged.
Our partner will be supervised by three members of the Pandora Organization, who is dedicated to investigating the origin of the chains such as B-Rabbit. Initially, they hide the survival of Oz and force him to collaborate with them: the covenant he has formed with Alice has become an illegal contractor, and this would be persecuted by the rest of Duchies and Pandora himself.
History does not stop giving us the feeling of a great conspiracy . Whenever it seems that we are going to get an answer, another name arises, another duchy, another essential character in the plot. However, it does not cause a continuous feeling of What is happening? In which the reader is tightened with turns and more senseless turns. Yes, we are doubted about the true intentions of the characters, because all are hiding something , but history advances in a very constant and safe way. Never lose the north and we are always giving us small answers to the main plot. Nothing feels like stuffing, all conversations are important, and everything happens for a reason.
At the same time, it s all so dramatic that it can be something comical sometimes . The reactions, from how the characters act on how their expressions are drawn, are very exaggerated . This can be negative to some readers, but in a story in which absolutely all the characters have some kind of disorder and rub madness, how were they not going to be disproportionate their ways of taking things?
The characters, in the exaggerated context of history, with constant suspicions between the different ducats, betrayals and hidden intentions, are enough credible , especially considering that constantly they are using each other others . Although at first you can collide any other, for its ages or physical aspect, they charge these issues as we move forward in the plot , and is that time flows differently in the different dimensions that appear in history, by example. We also find that there are many characters who do not remember all certain events, either for amnesia or for lies and false versions of facts.
All this is accompanied by an aesthetic and theme closely related to Alice in Wonderland , so it is not surprising all these fantastic resources and its own fairy tale. Between the designs of characters in which Rococó details abound, flyers, jacket costumes, flowers, stuffed animals and watches, and the appearance of classics like the crazy hat or Humpty Dumpty , with very dark touches, is very well achieved and integrated all that remaining touch that the series has.
The style of drawing is very careful, and it shows that Jun Mochizuki is an artist who works in traditional, with a very fine t , above all, elegant towards the end of the series , where he also goes away Darkening and aggravating the tone. The rhythm of the vignettes is very clear, and he does not hesitate to play with complex compositions to make us read certain scenes faster to give that feeling of action at any time.
The importance and emphasis that gives the faces is such that it is very easy to get rid of them and make you feel a little vortex of emotions, even if we see scenes taken out of context and without knowing what is happening. All in all, expressions can be repetitive and suffer from same-face-syndrome ( Syndrome of the same face , very criticized in manga and anime when the characters only change for their hairstyle or palette of color, but they share practically the same features Facial, bodily, poses and expressions).
However, and seeing other artwork of the author, it is seen that it can make much more range than it shows in pandora Hearts , where that exaggerated environment and given to expressions of despair and madness reigns in virtually the whole story.
A recommendation, yes, it would be contrast to translation with other sources, since a lot of essential points of very important characters has been changed. The I , which always costs so much to translate from Japanese, is not very well achieved and can be confused in the case of Raven , for example. They have translated their way of saying Yo at the beginning of history (where it has less self-esteem and trust) as The tete ... is not the most successful. Many moving or serious scenes lose the suspension of disbelief from outputs like this, not to mention how it distorts the fact that Raven always speaks very correctly in Japanese.
Anyway, they are cases that for someone who has read more manga and anime, they become easy to ignore, because they are so typical in translations. All in all, it is a pity that they cause an impression so different from which I would have liked to create the author.
If something is missing, would be the appearance of more female characters with an important role, despite turning around Alice s story . They are all extremely perfect, young, from royalty mostly, who, together with all aesthetics related to stories, castles, and abstract places, makes it very visual, but with little variety out there.
In short, and despite these problems, Pandora Hearts is an ambitious, dark and convoluted work, quite unique, although it drinks from many known sources. The varied characters have their own and credible motivations within an exacerbated context. It may not be the taste of all, but the quality of the design and the mime in the plot will undoubtedly be a great reward, full of tragedy (yes), for readers.
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