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That being said this was a really fun read. Much amend than expected, although it lacks the depth that before volumes had. (as well it would accept been nice to have got this book when it first came out like 10 years ago. It's weird that I feel like this is a brand new book when in reality information technology was written and released in Japan befor
I really dislike comicbook publishing. Nosotros all know Darkhorse is going to repackage this as an 'autobus' like they have the original serial. At present its just a waiting game...That being said this was a really fun read. Much better than expected, although it lacks the depth that before volumes had. (also information technology would have been nice to accept got this book when it first came out like 10 years ago. It's weird that I feel like this is a brand new book when in reality it was written and released in Japan before I had fifty-fifty read the first serial)
It takes place immediately after the last Lone Wolf volume and it makes me wonder why Koike left the series for xxx years before starting this one.
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Just re-read this today (Jan 2016, first time was Oct 2014). I was overly pessimistic the first time I read this. I think its on par with Lone Wolf and Cub (atleast as far as volume to volume goes, time will tell if it stands up to it in its entirety). The afterword by Koike, that I judge I didn't read the first time, explains why he decided to continue the story in 2000, 24 years after completing the original. He'due south also extremely honorable to the legacy of the original artist Goseki Kojima. He was affected greatly by the man'southward decease and says that without Goseki his career equally a author would exist non-existent.
I've read the offset vi volumes of this and then far and I can easily recommend it to fans of the series, or actually anyone that is interested in reading a beautifully rendered menstruum slice about Japan with lots of sword fighting and intriguing spirituality.
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Hearing that Kazuo planned to exercise a sequel in 2002 following the death of the Alone Wolf's co-creator in 20
Writing a review for a sequel to a series that will forever stand out to me as 1 of the all-time greatest achievements in story telling is extremely difficult. I discovered the original Solitary Wolf and Cub at a time in my life where the values depicted therein (loyalty, duty, family, wedlock, and fatherhood) rang out loudly to me from the pages of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's master work.Hearing that Kazuo planned to do a sequel in 2002 following the death of the Solitary Wolf'due south co-creator in 2000 left me concerned. Their work on this series would never be repeated. I was also unsure information technology even needed to have a sequel. While I was curious near Diagoro'due south fate, the final scene was flawless to me and the quest could non have concluded any other mode.
And then how most a review, right? New Lone Wolf and Cub picks upwardly immediately upon the ending of the final chapter of the original series. After starting the book I realized I did desire to meet what happened to young Cub and was captivated quickly by the boy's plight. I recall fans of the original series will be similarly interested the moment they outset the book. Kazou's writing style remains consistent to the first series and his characters remain in a historical fiction mural. Several new characters are introduced and some old ones reappear (love that fucking cart). While he is not Ogami, I like Togo Shigekata so far and am curious to run into how he evolves as his journey with Diagoro continues.
The artwork WAS a huge concern of mine as well. Goseki defined the look of the entire original series (drawing every volume) and replacing him with the right person was tremendously important. Kazou did well in choosing a student of Goseki, Hideki Mori, who appropriately respects the foundation laid by his mentor. Hideki is plain a skilled artist whose blackness and white illustrations look remarkably like Goseki'south. I over again think that admirers of the original will not be disappointed.
Overall I enjoyed this new kickoff for Diagoro and Solitary Wolf and Cub enthusiasts probably will likewise. Wouldn't recommend this to someone that has not read the original series. You'll probably exist a little lost. Also, the books are shorter than the original Dark Horse digests and read in the traditional Japanese correct to left format. This could evidence difficult to follow for someone unfamiliar with manga and make for a clumsy read. I sort of similar the novelty of the right to left and this avoids the necessary mirroring of illustrations (making right handed characters announced left handed in images) when converting traditional Japanese comics to the left to right format. Some fans of the original complained about this. Not something that bothered me at all.
Ultimately this is a very thoughtful, respectful, and enjoyable addition to the original Lonely Wolf and Cub tale. Reading Kozou's epilogue reveals how much the loss of his friend, the first series, and the importance of maintaining the story'southward integrity meant to him. This was not a breathy cash grab on his part and I truly believe his love of the characters and his own need to become past Goseki's death and continue with Diagoro's quest was what motivated him to create this championship.
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This picks up just at the ending of the original series, with Daigoro on the beach along with..well, I won't use spoilers. Daigoro is aided by what I gauge is another wandering ronin, so we soon find things very much as they were before, with Cub in a baby cart existence pushed by a samurai. There's also an elaborate plot going on around the pair, which I promise becomes
Terminal twelvemonth I read the unabridged Lonely Wolf and Cub serial, so I'thousand kicking off this yr by reading the entire New Lone Wolf and Cub series.This picks upwardly only at the ending of the original series, with Daigoro on the embankment forth with..well, I won't use spoilers. Daigoro is aided by what I guess is another wandering ronin, so we soon detect things very much equally they were before, with Cub in a baby cart existence pushed by a samurai. At that place'south too an elaborate plot going on around the pair, which I hope becomes more clear with time.
The series is good, and the fine art is probably as close to the original equally we can go. The problem I take so far is information technology seems too much similar a not as good copy of the original series. Things feel but like the original series but the main character has changed. Hopefully as the serial moves forth information technology will develop its ain "phonation", and so to speak, and stand on its own. I will say, however, even if it only stays a redoing of the original, it volition yet be pretty practiced I think.
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Danger nevertheless lurks as the boy with the masterswordsman eyes finds a new guardian .
Welcome back Koike sensei.
With new artist Mori who captured Goseki sensei previous art brilliantly. I don't believe it.Kozure Okami continues with Daigoro.
Danger however lurks as the male child with the masterswordsman eyes finds a new guardian .
Welcome back Koike sensei.
With new artist Mori who captured Goseki sensei previous art brilliantly. ...more than
The amazing thing is that Kazuo Koike institute an artist who can piece of work in a style so similar to that of the original artist, and at a le I was hesitant to pick this up, in example information technology compared badly to the original archetype, but this directly sequel [picking up no more than hours later the original series] is quite impressive. Information technology is Non a skillful jumping-on point, then rapidly run out and read the original series. No, really, the whole thing, considering this is as much a continuation of the story every bit information technology is a sequel.
The amazing thing is that Kazuo Koike found an artist who can work in a style and so like to that of the original artist, and at a level of quality which compares favorably. That is apparently what had kept him from writing this story sooner.
For those of you lot who accept read the original serial, this continues from the upshot of the showdown sword fight at the finish of the terminal book. A new subplot comes out of the political machinations, and accidentally circumduct effectually Daigoro. Encounter, I told you to go read the original work!
Enter Togo Shigetada, a very dissimilar human, merely also a skilled swordsman, and he and Daigoro get off on a very different kind of quest. Even the baby railroad vehicle from the original series makes a cameo appearance!
I did non give it a fifth star because I felt that the notes were not as consummate as they could accept been, in explaining several concepts and terms. Also, the standing apply of a regional dialect past the new main character takes some getting used to. ...more
The question is, tin can it possibly live up to the masterpiece that is the original LW&C series? I think with just 200 pages in this book, it's as well little to tell just yet, but there are some promising signs. Hideki Kojima's artwork is both true to the experience of the original, while being distinct from information technology - in that location's a more detailed, hyper-real experience. I like this because it marks it out as a different series, while staying true to the late Goseki Kojima's designs (in the afterword, Kazuo Koike talks about being very determined to respect Kojima's part in the cosmos of the characters). We even get a little bit of colour at the very beginning of the volume, which is something I hadn't seen before. I recollect there may have been places where LW&C was published in colour, but I've never seen them.
Story-wise, this carries on from the very moment LW&C concluded, and we get what I felt was a very fitting rounding off of where things were left. One reason I was apprehensive about a sequel was that the ending was non only then perfect, just had a large element of ambiguity that a sequel could hands ruin. Still, having decided to exercise a sequel, I think they got information technology right, and the very poignant opening capacity reassured me that we're still in good hands.
As for the newer story elements, I'm only a little concerned that the political machinations are a bit hard to follow in this 1, and not necessarily as conspicuously portrayed every bit they were earlier. Characters get a flake bogged down in explaining stuff and it can be convoluted. The new main grapheme Togo Shigekata, is wisely a very different graphic symbol to Ogami Itto - much more talkative for one thing - and information technology's interesting to run across Daigoro interact with him and I'm curious as to how this relationship volition develop.
Equally far as the publishing and translation goes, I had a couple of quibbles regarding some of the choices fabricated here. Togo's dialogue retains a lot of his colloquialisms, in society to ameliorate give the impression of him speaking in a very localised dialect. Although the terms are picked upwards pretty hands forth the way, it's somewhat jarring and takes the flow out of his dialogue. It's also yet another matter you lot have to refer to the back of the book for. Dana Lewis' translation is mostly excellent once more, but I'm not sure the issue is actually a fair equivalent of how Japanese readers would perceive his dialogue, and I wondered if at that place might take been a meliorate way to achieve this.
The preservation of certain Japanese terms that was present in the original series is as well done here, so readers will exist familiar with the whole thing of looking up words in the glossary - and as with LW&C information technology can be frustrating at times when the translation is selective about what to include in the glossary. Another feature has been added hither, however, which is the inclusion of footnotes relating to specific pages. These are necessary to empathize certain relevant points of Japanese history, but information technology tin can be a lot to bargain with on top of the glossary.
On a particularly nitpicking note, the audio effects have been left in Japanese, unlike in the original series (which I always similar in manga partly considering they're often part of the artwork, and also because I can read them) but there are little boxes giving an English version of the sound furnishings. Personally I'd prefer not to accept these just of course lots of people can't read Katakana so I empathize why they're there. What was kind of annoying, though, is that they're unremarkably not the aforementioned as the Japanese. The famous 'Gara Gara' of the babycart's wheels, for case, is rendered as 'rmb rmb' hither. Fifty-fifty not-Japanese readers would exist familiar with the original sound effect since the Japanese onomatopoeia were generally preserved phonetically in the original series, then this just seemed like an odd choice.
I could never expect this series to live upwardly to the original, but it's a positive outset. I remember information technology volition demand some settling into, but I'm looking forward to the side by side volume.
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The commencement volume of New Alone Wolf and Cub picks up immediately subsequently the catastrophe of its predecessor, and information technology imm
Lone Wolf and Cub is one of my favorite stories, a 28-volume comic volume detailing the conflict between a lone samurai left with his four-year old son, and the ninja clan that murdered the residue of his family. Remarkably for such a long series, Lone Wolf and Cub had an ending that brought the unabridged story to both a new elevation and an immensely satisfying close.And then there was a sequel...
The commencement volume of New Solitary Wolf and Cub picks upwardly immediately later the catastrophe of its predecessor, and it immediately feels like a bit of a letdown. Merely that's inevitable, as it has the daunting task of introducing a new bandage of characters and the complicated relationships and motivations that bind them all together. Hopefully successive volumes volition let the story fly full force; until then, all I can say is that New Lone Wolf and Cub does non spit upon the story that came before. For now, that'southward more than than enough for me.
Sidenote: reading Lone Wolf and Cub causes me a sort of existential dread that I never quite understood until I read a line in the sequel: "A warrior's sword is his soul! His life!" The concept of extending your being past your ain self is both wonderful and terrifying: you become greater than what you were, simply y'all also risk increased vulnerability and a greater sort of expiry - not of the concrete self, but of the very conception of who you lot are.
Right now there is but ane thing in the world I experience that way about. That thing brings me both transcendent joy and endless fear for its absence. In fact I can't really conceive of the latter; information technology would turn me into an entirely dissimilar person, and I take no thought what sort of person that would exist.
The characters in Solitary Wolf and Cub take this to extremes. Samurai are their honor; assassins are their adequacy to kill their target. I of the most poetically chilling lines in the series: "A shinobi lives with a blade in his heart." A ninja is his mission, willing to sacrifice anything and everything in pursuit of his goal.
It is a majestic concept, and one that would be piece of cake to romanticize and turn into an ideal. But I think Lone Wolf and Cub is ameliorate than that: it as well shows the terrible inhumanity that tin be the result. I think it is the latter that sparks the dread I feel whenever I read the story.
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I'm pleased to say that this 1 works. Taking place immediately subsequently the end of the first series, this one finds a wandering swordsman stumbling upon the aftermath and taking Daigoro under his fly. It's a scrap forced for sure, the odds of a second deadly sword master finding the "Wolf Boy" is a bit ridiculous but it works. Instead of being a consummate copy-cat to Ogami, this new swordsman has a completely unlike outlook on life and it's this tone that make this opening chapter more interesting. It makes you forget that this is an unnecessary continuation at it's center.
I'grand excited. This i is hit all my Samurai buttons. I can't expect to continue on and come across where Daigoro's story goes.
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1. The art is truly remarkable. It's very dynamic, subtle at times, and craftily rendered. E
I came across this manga by mere accident while picking upwards my pull from a retailer. To exist completely honest, I've never been much of a manga reader, except for Junji Ito's classics, since I was raised in the "tradition" of american comic book manufacture. That been said, there are two points, both positive, that I'd like to stress well-nigh this fine piece of piece of work (the rest been already said by other reviewers):one. The fine art is truly remarkable. It's very dynamic, subtle at times, and craftily rendered. Even when there'due south not a narrator to guide y'all through some situations, the art speaks for itself.
2. The narrative stands very well on its own. I've only perused the original series (Lone Wolf and Cub) in the internet, since getting the whole run in book class within my country is both difficult & expensive. But this story is (almost) self independent and has terrific readability, which makes it a plus for the not initiated —like myself.
I just can't wait to put my easily on the next volume of the series.
...more Lone Wolf and Cub is one of my favourite stories always; the ending was fantastic and entirely appropriate (whilst even so being a surprise and a shock), and I wouldn't accept e'er idea that it needed further telling.
Simply this is fantastic. The artist does an amazing job of honouring Goseki Kojima, rendering the characters entirely recognisable, without plagiarising the way entirely.
The story picks up exactly at the stop of Lonely Wolf and Cub Volume 28, and makes entire sense - I won't sa
Vivid.Alone Wolf and Cub is one of my favourite stories ever; the ending was fantastic and entirely appropriate (whilst still being a surprise and a daze), and I wouldn't take ever idea that it needed farther telling.
But this is fantastic. The artist does an astonishing chore of honouring Goseki Kojima, rendering the characters entirely recognisable, without plagiarising the style entirely.
The story picks upward exactly at the end of Lone Wolf and Cub Book 28, and makes unabridged sense - I won't say also much for fear of spoilers, but information technology's a great start to the side by side serial. It's peradventure too short and too reliant on set-up to requite information technology the full five stars, but that's not really a fault of the book itself at this stage, more inherent in the format.
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Early in Koike'southward career, he studied under Golgo xiii creator Takao Saito and served every bit a writer on the series.
Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (Solitary Wolf and Cub), and Koike likewise contributed to the scripts for the 1970s motion picture adaptations of the series, which starred famou
Kazuo Koike (小池 一夫, Koike Kazuo) is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo xiii creator Takao Saito and served as a author on the series.
Koike, forth with creative person Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub), and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s movie adaptations of the serial, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known every bit the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub.
Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated past Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 alive-action movie by French director Christophe Gans.
Kazuo Koike started the Gekika Sonjuku, a higher course meant to teach people how to be mangaka.
In add-on to his more fierce, activity-oriented manga, Koike, an avid golfer, has also written golf manga.
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