It’s a pure comedy/action blend, with Saitama’s egg-like, low-on-details head nicely contrasting with the rest of the artwork. One-Punch Man (Saitama) is a superhero who’s so powerful that he can defeat any foe with a single punch, and this bores him to tears.
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I love this approach because it reinforces the story’s tone (many sound effects are creepy), but leaves me to imagine the specifics. Each volume has its own page-by-page glossary of sound effects, but it’s not really needed - you can almost always figure out what the sound would be. KCDS also does something I’ve never encountered before in manga: The dialog is translated into English, but the sound effects are left in Japanese. I find myself thinking about things from KCDS long after I’ve put the book down. It’s genuinely creepy, and it manages to make what are essentially zombies unnerving.
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The whole series is suffused with dark humor, and the characters are weird, believable, and fascinating. Housui Yamazaki’s artwork is stunning, and it’s beautifully matched by Eiji Otsuka’s writing. It’s a horror comic, at least in part, so murder and revenge play a big role in many of those corpse deliveries. KCDS is about a group of students and alumni at a Buddhist university who all have talents which relate in some way to the dead, and they use those skills to identify souls trapped in corpses and bring them to peace - usually by taking the body somewhere and righting a wrong in the process. Watchmen is the comic that made me realize my general annoyance at sound effects was justified, at least most of the time, and it’s an aspect of comics I’ve paid close attention to ever since. Alan Moore’s Watchmen ( paid link) was, I think, the first comic I read that did something I’d been waiting years to see: There are no sound effects in Watchmen. I also want to focus a bit on sound effects, which are so often used poorly in comics. ( The only spoilers in this post are revealed in the first few pages of each respective first issue.) Sound effects and Watchmen These three books have brought me roaring back to it, and I wanted to share some of that joy here. I’ve been reading manga since I was a teenager, but generally less of it than American comics. They’re glorious! Graphic design for all three of these books is on fucking point.
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I wound up picking up the first Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service ( paid link) omnibus and the first volume of One-Punch Man ( paid link), and quickly followed those up with the first Assassination Classroom ( paid link) collection. A recent family outing to Uwajimaya snowballed into a trip to Kinokuniya Bookstore, and that place is trouble - particularly because their manga selection is insane.