Artificial Continuum
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
How's This For A Gimmick!!
6:59 PM | 
Posted by
Luke
To kick things off in the world of manga, I decided to start by recommending one of my favorite series (And no its not something super mainstream). I chose to start by reviewing Gimmick! by Youzaburou Kanari and Kuroko Yabaguchi. This series revolves around Sfx artist Kohei Nagase and Studio Gimmick. essentially Kohei, a woman-loving, childish, prodigy of a Sfx artist who wields what he calls the "Sacred Silver Spatula" helps many indivuals with their various problems by means of clever thinking, slight of hand, and alot of metal music. But he is not alone in this venture. From the start of the series, you are introduced to a load of unique characters and situations. For example, a celebrity friend of his is being stalked by an insane woman, so he goes to Kohei for a mask that will allow him to safely go about his business. Thats a very cut and dry synopsis of that particular story, but its just to set a scene. A key element to this story, however, is that it uses many references to present day special effects and movies such as how CGI revolutionized film when used in Jurassic Park. Also it is very specific when detailing how Kohei creates the many illusions in the manga. Overall I'd say this manga gets an B+ in artistic style, an A+ in overall story, and an A+ in overall orignality and readability. There are eight realeased in the U.S. so far.
"Special Effects aren't about recreating reality, it's about using Gimmicks to do reality one better" (Book 1).
~Luke
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