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H2
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Design - 8.0 |
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Story - 7.5 |
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Character - 6.5 |
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Value - 7.0 |
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Enjoyment - 7.5 |
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Average - 7.3 |
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| Average |
9.0 |
| Design |
9 |
| Story |
9 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
| I normally enjoy making long, gently worded arguments. But this time I think I will be rude and blunt.
Don't believe the reviewer below.
He/she seems really irked that H2 reuses the Touch formula. That is true to a fair extent. The thing is, Mitsuru loves to recycle materials, like a number of other anime/manga masters. And he is very, very good at it. He knows his stuff. No one else does his stuff better than he does. It has his signature all over it, and it has a charm you will not find in any other manga artist. He was still a growing artist in Touch, but with H2 he has reached his height. He has perfected his formula. And he is sticking to it.
You don't have to listen to me or the person below.
Just check out volume 1.
Ten to one, you will not be able to stop before you go through all 34 books. The below reviewer is clearly that one out of ten who feel differently. That's fine. But he has no business recommending things to the remaining nine.
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nauXolo |
(2006-04-30 14:16:30) 2006-04-30 14:12:48 |
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| Average |
5.6 |
| Design |
7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
5 |
| I've read about 15 volumes of H2 - and decided this wasn't worth reading until the end. There isn't enough interest in H2 to keep me going.
H2 is basically Touch revisited, without as much emotional romance and less involvement by the reader. I basically remember this manga as a more baseball oriented version of Touch. As a result, with more baseball it means less character development. Instead of having two central characters involved in a romantic relationship, we have four. Furthermore, H2 introduces some sort of weird love square, which seems to lack the same realism and dramaticism as Touch. It never really becomes anything memorable or exciting. H2 never takes off... just a long hum drum of the same predictable stories.
One thing I especially disliked about H2 was how he liked to make past references to Touch. In this way, it felt more like a self-tribute to Adachi's own work rather than a story all by itself. There were way too many parallels and similiarities in not only the character design, but the plotline. He included various parodies of Touch within H2 and I just didn't really appreciate that. H2 is not that much of a manga by itself to take seriously.
The characters barely take on a life of their own. H2 characters are unable to release themselves from the shadow of Tatsuya, Katsuya, and Minami from Adachi's previous work Touch. Even if one never read Touch (which is definitely recommended) not only will the reader miss out on the numerous but subtle references, a lot of the character development seems to take previous works for granted (for example the catcher looks and acts exactly the same as the catcher from Touch).
All in all, H2 doesn't really separate itself as piece of work that can be enjoyed by itself. The baseball games aren't that interesting, the support cast sucks extremely badly and are mere accessories to the manga, and all that H2 is left with is a different approach towards romance - 4 people who share the same first letter of their last names and a unrealistic and contrived pingpong-ing of emotions and feelings).
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