Comments on: Kasumi Book 1

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:41:33 +0000

I don’t believe it’s been announced yet. If it’s planned, it likely won’t be until 2010 at the earliest.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:32:06 +0000

When’s Kasumi, Vol. 3 coming out?
Anyone know?

By: Keideki

Keideki — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:55:54 +0000

You know, this website is quoted in wikipedia, and it makes it seem like the review is very negative, but the review I read here does have some critisim, but its mainly postitive.

By: Kasumi Book 2 » Comics Worth Reading

Kasumi Book 2 » Comics Worth Reading — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:44:40 +0000

[...] I read the first volume of this joint American-Japanese production, I thought it was ok. This installment, though, tries to [...]

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Yen 4-koma, Takahashi talks, Thorn translates

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:17:39 +0000

[...] the Boys at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Johanna Draper Carlson reviews vol. 3 of Honey and Clover and vol. 1 of Kasumi at Comics Worth Reading. Connie posts a stack of reviews at Slightly Biased Manga: vols. 36 and 37 [...]

By: there it is, plain as daylight. » This is a box. A magical box, playing a magical tune.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:13:21 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson reviews Kasumi vol. 1 at comicsworthreading. Now, you may remember back when I was lamenting on shojo manga (yes, this [...]

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:35:15 +0000

Oh, and I *LOVELOVELOVE* the toning. The toner does an AMAZING job using tones to direct the eye to specific spots in a panel and giving a sense of mood and tone to each page. I want to know how they did half of it; they weren’t using most of your standard prepackaged tones!

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:26:31 +0000

I saw the preview for this a few days ago online and saw enough to intrigue me; the art is really beautiful and well fleshed and the premise is right up my alley for the kinds of stories I like to read; real life issues with a little magical realism thrown in. The only problems I had were figuring out the dialog flow–the layouts were a little confusing and I didn’t know which balloon or panel to read next on several pages–and I thought the original rough pencils up on the Del Rey website were actually a lot more emotive than the finished inks. I wonder if there’s a separate inker? But I agree that the artist portrays a lot of emotion through body language, which compensates where some of the facial expression may lack a little bit.

By: George Salire

George Salire — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:30:38 +0000

A shojo manga about a girl who does silly card and stage magic tricks? Sold! I wonder if my comic book shop has one in stock…