Manga Thoughts

I stopped reading the on-line previews from Tokyopop because it was a pain to navigate the site. I enjoyed some of the books, but they kept changing the site around and they limited access even to subscribers so you could only read the current chapter. If I'd been able to reread the previous chapter, a lot of the books would have come out looking a lot better. Add to that the small size of the print, making some of the stories nearly impossible to read on-line, and it just wasn't worth it. So I just gave it up. It was fun for a bit and I did end up getting a number of books from it, but it was too much of a pain to deal with.

I did buy one last book, based on the on-line previews, and here's some rapid thoughts on it.

Psy-Comm Vol 1: This book holds together MUCH better read all at once. In chapters, it's hard to remember what is happening, but as a single story, the characters come to life and the whole thing suddenly clicks into focus. The storytelling could use a little work, to make things a bit more clear for the reader, but that's not so much an issue with it collected into a single volume. The concepts of the book are great... war is an industrial entertainment system and the psychics are the stars. At the end of the first volume, the world is established along with the main characters. The second volume promises more adventure, as well as commentary on the nature of the leadership in this world. Good stuff, worth checking out if you like the war/tech genre.