Is probably a familiar title to any school librarian. It provokes a lot of questions: What is it? Why do kids like it? Why would a ninja wear orange? Are those headbands uncomfortable?
About a young ninja named Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto’s driving ambition is to be the best possible ninja, while also dealing with the fact that he has a fox demon sealed inside of him. Naruto is teamed up with two other ninja students, Sakura and Sasuke, and assigned to a sensei (teacher) Kakashi. The 72-volume manga follows the team as they juggle various trials and tribulations.
Has a breakneck pace, and cliffhangers are par for the course. The stakes are constantly raised as the series progresses, as personal struggles and issues come to a head. Masculine identifying students really enjoy Naruto’s crass humor and straightforward attitude. He wants to be the best, lead his people, and master the tempestuous beast within him. It’s the perfect allegory for being a teenager.
Manga Review:
I don’t know why a ninja would wear orange. I’ve read three volumes of this manga, and none of them explain it.
. The first is this: I really don’t care for it, personally. In complete honesty, most shōnen battle manga has never been something I liked. I’ve tried multiple times over the years to read or watch this story, and I just can’t get into it. Part of it is that the first female character you encounter, Sakura, spends much of the early part of the story being defined by her attraction to Sasuke.
From my understanding, Sakura does become more complex over the course of the series, but it’s always been a bit of a turn-off for me. So much of her character has been entrenched in her romantic prospects. She even rejects her closest friend because they are love rivals for Sasuke.
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I have to say this manga is appropriate for upper middle and high school. It’s a popular title and has themes that students relate to and can talk about. There’s nothing sexually explicit or inappropriate in the first view volumes. There are crude jokes and toilet humor, which is why I would hesitate to make it available in elementary schools. There is incidental nudity played for laughs in later volumes, and the violence does ramp up, so you might want to assess if this is a right fit for your middle school library on your own.When it comes to writing about anime and Japanese popular culture, Helen McCarthy was a pioneer. She's been writing and talking about it for around three decades- long before most British people even knew Japan had an animation industry. Back in the 90s she edited the ground-breaking magazine Anime UK and wrote the very first book in the English language entirely dedicated to anime. Anyone who writes seriously about Japanese animation owes her a debt. 2009's wonderful The Art Of Osamu Tezuka: God Of Manga broke new ground for the author in that it was her first book that was as much concerned with Japan's comics industry as with it's animated output. To truly understand anime, arguably you must come to understand manga, so it made perfect sense that her next book would shine the spotlight entirely on the printed page.
A Brief History of Manga is, as the title suggests, a whistle-stop tour through the history of comics in Japan. It's a light and breezy read for sure, but that's not to suggest that it's not absolutely full of manga-y goodness. Despite its relatively short page-count, it packs every page with nuggets of information and insight, many of which will be new to even those who consider themselves manga experts. Each double-spread tackles a pertinent year in the medium's history. What really makes this book stand out though is the time spent on the very early history of cartooning and comics in Japan. Starting with The prehistory of Manga in the year 700, it traces the art-form's earliest roots. Most sources act like Manga began with Tezuka, with everything preceding that a footnote at most. Not so here, as the man himself doesn't even show up until page 24. Running throughout the book is a timeline featuring dates of publications, historical events and the births and deaths of key figures in the industry.
It's true that there are more detailed books on this subject. Books like the seminal Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
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Have the space to do deep into various genres and periods. Although attractively designed, this book also doesn't offer extracts from the comics themselves, unlike some of the earlier books. None of this matters though, because McCarthy is aiming to achieve some very specific here, and pulls it off expertly. Brief it may be- but don't for a moment confuse that with shallow.
It acts as something of a companion piece to the author's first (and long out-of-print) Anime; A Beginner's Guide To Japanese Animation. If you happen to be somebody into Japanese animation who wants to get into the comics side of things- then this book is a perfect jumping off point. Yet at the same time, it's so full of interesting facts and trivia that it becomes an essential read even for those of us who have been reading manga for some time. Highly Recommended.
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For my first experience. The first challenge was opening the book to the first page – it starts in the back and you read to the front, and you read from right to left. I caught on pretty quickly after a page or two.
The story line is about a teen who bullied a handicapped student in middle school and is now trying to make amends for his behavior. The language (which has been translated from Japanese) was precise. That is a good thing because, otherwise, it wouldn’t fit into the dialogue bubbles. The vocabulary was not sophisticated but rather imitated the speech and thoughts of the teenage characters. There was a lot of meaning conveyed in a few words. I found it to be engaging and timely, so I read all 7 books in the series.
What I found particularly fascinating were the drawings, especially since Oima was both the author of the script AND the creator of the illustrations. These illustrations moved the plot forward and helped me follow the story line. Every frame of the graphic novel shows the characters with different expressions that illustrate the actions and the emotions taking place at that moment in the story line. Now that takes talent! No wonder the teens of our community want to imitate the characteristic style that is Manga.
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Even though I may not read many more graphic novels (and there are a lot of them in the children and teen departments at our library), I am able to say that now I am familiar with that genre and can appreciate the effort that goes into it. It is a pleasant way to give your brain a “vacation” from some of the heavier reading that we do, or should I say, that I do. But, more importantly, there is a lesson for ALL of us: Bullying is wrong and it takes a courageous person to recognize that he is a bully and to make every attempt to redeem himself no matter how hard it is.
Have the space to do deep into various genres and periods. Although attractively designed, this book also doesn't offer extracts from the comics themselves, unlike some of the earlier books. None of this matters though, because McCarthy is aiming to achieve some very specific here, and pulls it off expertly. Brief it may be- but don't for a moment confuse that with shallow.
It acts as something of a companion piece to the author's first (and long out-of-print) Anime; A Beginner's Guide To Japanese Animation. If you happen to be somebody into Japanese animation who wants to get into the comics side of things- then this book is a perfect jumping off point. Yet at the same time, it's so full of interesting facts and trivia that it becomes an essential read even for those of us who have been reading manga for some time. Highly Recommended.
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For my first experience. The first challenge was opening the book to the first page – it starts in the back and you read to the front, and you read from right to left. I caught on pretty quickly after a page or two.
The story line is about a teen who bullied a handicapped student in middle school and is now trying to make amends for his behavior. The language (which has been translated from Japanese) was precise. That is a good thing because, otherwise, it wouldn’t fit into the dialogue bubbles. The vocabulary was not sophisticated but rather imitated the speech and thoughts of the teenage characters. There was a lot of meaning conveyed in a few words. I found it to be engaging and timely, so I read all 7 books in the series.
What I found particularly fascinating were the drawings, especially since Oima was both the author of the script AND the creator of the illustrations. These illustrations moved the plot forward and helped me follow the story line. Every frame of the graphic novel shows the characters with different expressions that illustrate the actions and the emotions taking place at that moment in the story line. Now that takes talent! No wonder the teens of our community want to imitate the characteristic style that is Manga.
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Even though I may not read many more graphic novels (and there are a lot of them in the children and teen departments at our library), I am able to say that now I am familiar with that genre and can appreciate the effort that goes into it. It is a pleasant way to give your brain a “vacation” from some of the heavier reading that we do, or should I say, that I do. But, more importantly, there is a lesson for ALL of us: Bullying is wrong and it takes a courageous person to recognize that he is a bully and to make every attempt to redeem himself no matter how hard it is.
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