From: yaniv_tempelman@hispeed.ch   
      
   Ping Kuowrote:   
      
   > > So what is your first choice for a "great atmosphere" type manga then?   
   >   
   > off  the tope of my head, (whatever few brain cell there are :)   
   >   
   > current titles still in serialziation.   
   >   
   > twin spica  (the difference from YKK is it has a story, and a good one,   
   > characterization is also MUCH better.  artwork is a draw, but it is   
   > more consistent from the beginning.  the atmosphere here the big   
   > difference is while it is melchanoly, it also has "hope".)   
      
   Hm, I own the first two volumes. I like them, it's a nice story about   
   growing up and fulfilling one's dream. I like the distinct artwork too.   
   I just never considered some comparison between this title and YKK. It's   
   not in the same league, it doesn't aim the same, I think.   
      
   > I haven't get a chance to read Kamichu, but I heard it is pretty good   
   > and like Yotsubato.  and Yotsubato is probably the closest thing to YKK   
   > right now.   
      
   Yotsubato? .... Because of the green hair?  :)   
      
   > Me and Devil's Blue is also quite atmosphere w/ its artwork, alebit in   
   > a different way not really out to make you relax but to make you tense.   
   >   
   > Zetman, while an action title, is also down right depressing atmosphere   
   > by using the story, not artwork.  (which is better on that aspect than   
   > Gunnm and Tenjo Tenge.)   
      
   I haven't read these. Somehow I try to avoid Katsura for some years now,   
   lost interest in his work after I''s.   
      
   If we're talking now about "great atmosphere" in a broad sense, then   
   there's Berserk. Really dark, really bloody and - in my opinion - damn   
   good, especially the middle volumes.   
      
   > it is easy to create atmosphere, it is just not easy to create "relax"   
   > atmosphere in a continuation of 140 chapters,  all manga can do   
   > atmosphere in some intervals, then they have to tell a story after   
   > enough "mood" had been built.   
   >   
   > it could be "too much of a good thing".  in fact, I sometime wonder if   
   > those 140 chapters would not work out just as well as 140 painting of   
   > Alpha,   
      
   I don't think so because 140 paintings of a character would tell a story   
   you create mostly yourself in your own head whereas YKK proposes some   
   plotlines, even if they're more or less negligeable.   
      
   > or it is just the same when you watch a movie they don't play   
   > the mood building music all the way through a 2 hr movie, sooner or   
   > later, you have to deliever the goods.   
      
   Have you ever seen "Kooyanisqatsi"? It works without a plot ;)   
      
      
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