Emma MMF: Jason S. Yadao
Jason S. Yadao of the Star-Bulletin’s Otaku Ohana checks in this morning to share his review of Shirley
“There’s so much potential here for Mori to explore these mysteries further, to really develop and flesh out her characters and their relationships.And it’s pretty much wasted.
Just when I was getting into the story of Shirley and Bennett, it ended. Or, to be more accurate, their story abruptly stops about 125 pages into the book, the focus veering away to a few of Mori’s other short stories (about maids, naturally). Want to know more about Shirley and Bennet? Sorry, but you’ll just have to wait and see if anyone translates the two-part Shirley story that Mori’s drawing for Fellows! magazine starting April 15. Whether it will tie up the loose ends introduced here is debatable. It makes me wonder about the story’s original Japanese serialization and whether Mori intentionally left the story open-ended or she was forced to stop because she was either too busy with Emma or her host anthology suspended its publication.”
At the end of the article Yadao also shares some of his thoughts about vols 8-10 — or to be more precise, part of the conversation he had with Wilma Jandoc (who also contributed her own review of vols 1-7) about the “Emmaverse” volumes.
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