Review of Highschool of the Dead

Joshawott said:
Funny y'all should be saying that. When I was doing my extended project (writing a book), I decided to keep the length small (About 250ish pages) because let's face it, the bigger a book is, the more it costs. The more it costs, the less likely someone will pick it up as a blind buy.
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I don't think that's been the case for some time. At 512 pages, the Penguin Classics edition of Paradise Lost has an RRP of £8.99. So what's the price of The Time Machine, weighing in at 128 pages? £8.99. Book pricing is just insane.

I like bigger volumes as long as the spines are well made and / or the paper flips nicely. Weighty paperbacks with rigid spines and thick paper are impossible to read without destroying. I'd prefer everything to be hard-backed with stitched binding, but that's just my expensive taste. Portability isn't really something I look for.
 
I don't tend to think that far ahead...I now have the first two cardcaptor Sakura omnibuses, but am hesitant to read them because of how large/purty they are...don't want to bend them too much. By contrast the seven seas omnibus editions I have no problem with reading...probably because they don't feel (or actually be) as expensive
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
It's not quite the same though. A novel is just words; this omnibus release is 700 pages of full-colour art work. Larger format (within reason of course) = more to appreciate. It's also obviously a collectors' item and not really aimed at the more casual buyer.
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Hmm, I can kind of see that as a better argument as I didn't know they'd brought over the full color edition. I still feel like it's actually releases like this that are more likely to attract the casual buyer as a coffee-table piece (although perhaps not this specific title), and have more of a problem finding shelf space amongst the hundreds of other manga and LN volumes I have.

If you really dig the HsotD art though, I can see why you might want this specific release. I just would not want "bigger" releases as standard.
 
Sorry to dig up this old thread but I was just going to throw in my two pence on this title. I was quite disappointed by it, maybe I had allowed my expectations to be built up to high but I felt the story didn't really even get going until the final three episodes. Also the fan service was rather too intrusive, normally I don't register this but in this case it really seemed to get in the way of things, especially some of the action sequences. The whole show felt like a missed opportunity to deliver something better.
 
robot monkey said:
Sorry to dig up this old thread but I was just going to throw in my two pence on this title. I was quite disappointed by it, maybe I had allowed my expectations to be built up to high but I felt the story didn't really even get going until the final three episodes. Also the fan service was rather too intrusive, normally I don't register this but in this case it really seemed to get in the way of things, especially some of the action sequences. The whole show felt like a missed opportunity to deliver something better.
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H.O.T.D is very marmite like it seems, either you love it or hate it, I don't really care about the story, I mean come on! It's got zombies! Who needs a plot? The fanservice, as much as I usually hate fanservice, was pulled off quite... "tastefully" (kinda ironic I know), it didn't leave me cringing the entire series, at the end of the day it's not a very serious show at heart, it's more of a tribute to the Zombie genre and has fun along the way.
 
I suspect HSotD was always about fanservice first and plot second. I see it as a manga/anime version of an exploitation film, and personally think it's all the better for it.

robot monkey said:
I felt the story didn't really even get going until the final three episodes.
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Conversely I thought the plot went nowhere in the final three episodes. Everything ground to a halt for the characters to start angsting.
 
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