Attack on Titan, Volumes 3-10, by Hajime Isayama, 1568 pages
Through my reading of the series I am have
come to admire Hajime Isayama’s skill. Not only does he write the
series but he, if I am not mistaken, is also the illustrator. Now with how many
people’s limbs get bitten off or chomped in half I would be quite easy to
exaggerate the amount of blood and make each death seem gorier. But Hajime
Isayama seems content to portray it as accurately as he can. Sure there is
plenty of death and some pretty gruesome scenes, but nothing so overdone as to
subtract from its realism.
Hopefully Attack on Titan stays as popular as it
is and Hajime Isayama continues to write plenty of volumes
for those of us here at SLPL that love to read them.
Does anyone
know why so many of the manga books have a certain number of pages that seems
to be 200 +/- 8? For an example we can look at the 8 volumes here; 208, 192,
192, 208, 192, 192, 192, 192. This does not just apply to Attack on Titan, but to every manga series I have read.
It could have something to do with the fact that many of them are first published chapter-by-chapter in Japanese magazines, before being collected as graphic novels. Something to do with page count restrictions/requirements? And then it just became a standard from there? I'm not really sure. Just a guess.
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