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Manga Classics Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
The manga version of 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen is much like the 'Pride and Prejudice' manga. Both are drawn in a shojo style that takes from the classic style of the manga genre and thereby introduces readers not only to classic English literature, but classic Japanese manga styles. It's cutesy and makes all the heroines and their knights beautiful, with setting that compliment their characters. Reading the manga version of this story allowed me to glean things I hadn't noticed in the story before; this is comic theory known as 'amplification through simplification' and basically means that by taking out the hard to read writing style of classic English and replacing it with manga, the story's meaning is amplified. I believe this is why many readers will love this manga as much as they've loved Jane Austen's original works.