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The worst half of Gonzo's animated remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic samurai drama wasn't the things it added (large robots and spaceship-slicing samurai) or the items it removed (Kurosawa's dark humor), but rather those it faithfully preserved. Watching an animated cyborg spouting Toshiro Mifune's famous "sneaky peasants" speech in particular was an occasional-water mark. It took everything that Kurosawa and Mifune had to form that speech work; did anyone very suppose that a cartoon robot might pull it off? Currently comes Mizutaka Suhou's manga-ization of the Gonzo series. Happily, the manga hasn't a trustworthy bone in its body. Unhappily, that's all there is to be happy about.

Just about the sole actually nice thing which will be said about the Samurai 7 manga is that it's a way of humor. It isn't a terribly sensible sense of humor, and is not continually intentional, but it's more than the dreary-serious anime had. Most of it stems from Katsushiro, whose personality has been so revamped that he's hardly recognizable. Even the revelation of his "huge secret" is among an amusing sight gag (the globe's most embarrassing mug shot). Thanks to his bungling, Katsushiro nearly comes across as likable. Those who had less humorous temperament rewrites are far less lucky: there was no reason to make Kikuchiyo a mysterious ancient cyborg warrior, Kirara's passivity carries her to brain-deadening heights of blandness, and the remainder of the cast may similarly be sword-wielding mannequins for all the temperament they muster.
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Mizutaka might be no nice talent when it involves story-writing, but he's helped along by Kurosawa's skillful plotting (or what remains of it) and the simple but compelling premise. Some of his changes-particularly all of that heart-detecting pendant stupidity-are pretty lame, but, hindered by the lingering effects of Kurosawa's brilliance, he has to save lots of the really awful material for the art. Not that his art is ugly-though it is inconsistent and awkward, particularly where human joints and movement are concerned. His younger characters have a certain potato-faced charm, the older samurai manage a moderate level of sex appeal, and the background art (when it is drawn, which is not usually) is passable. However, Mizutaka is also saddled with visual instincts so laughably bad that they simply eclipse any technical talent he possesses. The action is stiff and flows poorly enough to create rereading a virtue, however it is the makes an attempt at coolness that really gum up the works. To start with, no action series ought to star a man who looks like Jesus (as Kanbei will-uncannily so). Cutting spaceships in 0.5 can be masses cool, however not when Jesus is doing the slicing. "Once we have a tendency to destroy all the cannons in front, get off the ship and stay up for my signal," says Jesus. "We have a tendency to'll sink this ship!" That won't cool; that is hilarious. And whether or not you'll be able to take Action Jesus at face value, there's still Mizutaka's habit of pushing the visuals needlessly over-the-prime to contend with. The ultimate chapter features a "approach of the samurai" speech by Jesu-er, Kanbei that concludes with him posing dramatically in front of a rising sun (complete with symmetrical WWII-era rays). Many thanks Mizutaka, hit me over the top with that one again.

There's a reason Del Rey's manga price a smidge more than your average comic. The book is solid, with sensible paper and nary a blurry line, and there are five pages of helpful cultural notes in the back. True, the front cowl is boring and the back-of-the-book synopsis overripe, however nobody's perfect, and albeit, given the quality of the manga within, the lack of enthusiasm is understandable.