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readerrachelle 's review for:
The Tarot Cafe Manga Collection: Volume 1
by Sang-Sun Park
2 Stars
I received this book for free from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
I'll be honest its been a little while since my hardcore manga reading phase so maybe I'm totally out of the loop with what's popular and what's considered acclaimed. I just wasn't super into this; to start with one of the major reasons I picked this up was the tarot and the tarot reader being the main focal point of the stories. This felt more like a short story collection about a wide variety of people and their life stories with the only common thread being they had all visited this cafe and had their cards read. As a consequence of this, this came off feeling very unfocused and meandering while I was reading it.
I really enjoyed the full page tarot card spreads with included a short description about its significance and generally accepted meaning but for the rest of the volume I have to say the art was a little bit of a letdown. It wasn't as clean as I prefer or in a style that I would normally go for; the front cover is not indicative of the inside at all. I also, did really struggle with getting a download of this where the smaller texts were legible. It got to the point where I had to contact to the publisher to get the issue fixed, I will say they handle it admirably, it just made what would've been a small issue into a much larger disappointment.
So while this wasn't the manga to respark my love of the format I can definitely see this appealing to others and bringing a little bit of joy to their lives; I just won't be continuing it.
I received this book for free from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
I'll be honest its been a little while since my hardcore manga reading phase so maybe I'm totally out of the loop with what's popular and what's considered acclaimed. I just wasn't super into this; to start with one of the major reasons I picked this up was the tarot and the tarot reader being the main focal point of the stories. This felt more like a short story collection about a wide variety of people and their life stories with the only common thread being they had all visited this cafe and had their cards read. As a consequence of this, this came off feeling very unfocused and meandering while I was reading it.
I really enjoyed the full page tarot card spreads with included a short description about its significance and generally accepted meaning but for the rest of the volume I have to say the art was a little bit of a letdown. It wasn't as clean as I prefer or in a style that I would normally go for; the front cover is not indicative of the inside at all. I also, did really struggle with getting a download of this where the smaller texts were legible. It got to the point where I had to contact to the publisher to get the issue fixed, I will say they handle it admirably, it just made what would've been a small issue into a much larger disappointment.
So while this wasn't the manga to respark my love of the format I can definitely see this appealing to others and bringing a little bit of joy to their lives; I just won't be continuing it.