My Book Reviews: ‘Kodocha: Sana’s Stage’, Vol. 01 by Miho Obana.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.06, 2023, under Books, Cartooning
Kodocha: Sana’s Stage, Vol. 01 by Miho Obana
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Note: As I continue to create comics, I’m trying to slip in comic trade paperback material.
This is such simplistic, poorly rendered, plotted and laid out book, that I wonder how it got produced. Was this originally 3 times the size and reduced to the typical manga trade paperback size? The type is at times so tiny, eye strain should be anticipated.
The plot weaknesses should have been noted to the writer to clean up before publication. The streamlining of a large amount of repetition of dialogue and situations could’ve aided the written problems here.
The artistic problems are, again, the faulty of an editor that should’ve flagged poor story layouts that should’ve been noticed in the thumbnail stage.
The artist did negotiate the repetition well be not drawing the same drawings of repeated scenes.
Characters are stereotypical and the story is much the same.
Drawings of characters are unoriginal. Typical absence of setting is a significant setback.
Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 3 out of ten points.
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