Writer/producer for Dreamfeel. Worked on If Found. Likes books, games, anime, communism
Exceedingly funny that this volume is mostly an excuse for Kaoru Mori to flex (as though she ever needed to do that again in her life) by drawing infinite horses, the bane of every artist. Anyway this manga continues to be the best, full of richness and detail and tenderness. I truly love how much it tries to embody the lives of the characters from the inside out. I think the most tiresome and boring critique people have of it is that the central relationship has an uncomfortable age gap - which it does (amir is almost 21 at this point, karluk is almost 13) - but to focus on that is to profoundly miss the point of what the story is trying to do, which is to think about all the kinds of lives people have had, and to wonder without prejudice or assumption "what did it feel like to live those lives?" And imo there really is no higher bar historical fiction can hit.
(also she yet again manages to draw some very gorgeous female nudity while ~mysteriously~ not bothering with any male nudity, very odd, wonder why she would possibly do that)
Exceedingly funny that this volume is mostly an excuse for Kaoru Mori to flex (as though she ever needed to do that again in her life) by drawing infinite horses, the bane of every artist. Anyway this manga continues to be the best, full of richness and detail and tenderness. I truly love how much it tries to embody the lives of the characters from the inside out. I think the most tiresome and boring critique people have of it is that the central relationship has an uncomfortable age gap - which it does (amir is almost 21 at this point, karluk is almost 13) - but to focus on that is to profoundly miss the point of what the story is trying to do, which is to think about all the kinds of lives people have had, and to wonder without prejudice or assumption "what did it feel like to live those lives?" And imo there really is no higher bar historical fiction can hit.
(also she yet again manages to draw some very gorgeous female nudity while ~mysteriously~ not bothering with any male nudity, very odd, wonder why she would possibly do that)
I have never seen anyone credibly claim that kaoru mori is straight