Groove Adventure Rave manga review
July 31st 2009 12:47
Groove Adventure Rave is a manga created by Hiro Mashima. This anime is also adapted into anime by Studio DEEN.
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: Journeys, Magic Artifacts, Sword Fighting
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Synopsis: Haru is a teenage boy. After catching an odd, dog-looking... thing... while fishing, he finds out about the power of the Rave Stone, and receives a sword called the ten commandments. He leaves his older sister, and begins his journey to find the other rave stones. Along the way, he meets Elie, a rather hyper girl with no memory of anything beyond a year.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment:
Let me just be honest with you about Rave (since Groove Adventure Rave seems very long to me, let's stick with Rave). If you're planning to watch the anime, screw it. It's not because the anime quality is crappy. It's just that the anime just ends in the middle of the manga storyline. Obviously when you watched the last episode, you might expect there's a second season which is sadly to say that there's no second season for Rave. This is my main reason I've submitted myself to read the manga instead because I may have tell you (or may not) that I'm curious by nature. So yeah, go and get yourself the manga instead of watching the anime.
Okay, I'll stop with my anime rant and let's move on with the storyline. As far as it's concerned, the storyline is nicely explain even though there are a lot of mysteries involved with the stone called Rave. This is truly typical for any manga that has magic stone as the main plot. Well, combined with Elie's reaction when something triggered her memory, the story is getting interesting. Unfortunately, great storyline comes with compensations. Love it or hate it, there are quite a few deaths involved here. The deaths can be in any form whether that person was defeated by Haru or that person was just sacrificing for Haru or Elie's sake. Of course I won't tell you who died in this manga so if you don't like the idea of switching from happy moment to sad moment, then honestly ditch this manga. No offense to those who love this manga but if you don't like the idea, I'm seriously asking you to ditch the manga. Surprisingly enough, I could actually guess it right for who is really Elie. Kudos to me since I never thought that I could guess correctly for shonen manga. I think this is the only shonen manga where I could predict the storyline correctly.
As you read through, you will notice that the bad people who used to fight Haru will end up allying with him instead of fighting against him. Yeah, it sounds really funny even the most strongest and cruelest person, Lucia wasn't really that evil. Of course, evil people supposed to remain evil but it feels like the evil people chose to repent at the end in Rave's case.
As for the artwork, I don't get it why people got easily confused Rave or Fairytale with Eichiro Oda's (One Piece mangaka) artwork. Yes, I'm also familiar with Eichiro Oda's artwork style but at first glance it's obviously different. I know it's funny but I can't helped it that people got easily confused with his art style. Speaking of art style, the drawing style improved as the story continued. This is a good thing since the early style looks odd to me. Kudos to Hiro Mashima for dramatically improved his artwork. Take a look at the difference here:
Before
After
Overall, this manga has a good art with great storyline but there are always sad moments. If you really want manga fulls with happy moment and without deaths involved this manga is not for you. Give this manga a try since this is an early manga by Hiro Mashima.
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: Journeys, Magic Artifacts, Sword Fighting
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Synopsis: Haru is a teenage boy. After catching an odd, dog-looking... thing... while fishing, he finds out about the power of the Rave Stone, and receives a sword called the ten commandments. He leaves his older sister, and begins his journey to find the other rave stones. Along the way, he meets Elie, a rather hyper girl with no memory of anything beyond a year.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment:
Let me just be honest with you about Rave (since Groove Adventure Rave seems very long to me, let's stick with Rave). If you're planning to watch the anime, screw it. It's not because the anime quality is crappy. It's just that the anime just ends in the middle of the manga storyline. Obviously when you watched the last episode, you might expect there's a second season which is sadly to say that there's no second season for Rave. This is my main reason I've submitted myself to read the manga instead because I may have tell you (or may not) that I'm curious by nature. So yeah, go and get yourself the manga instead of watching the anime.
Okay, I'll stop with my anime rant and let's move on with the storyline. As far as it's concerned, the storyline is nicely explain even though there are a lot of mysteries involved with the stone called Rave. This is truly typical for any manga that has magic stone as the main plot. Well, combined with Elie's reaction when something triggered her memory, the story is getting interesting. Unfortunately, great storyline comes with compensations. Love it or hate it, there are quite a few deaths involved here. The deaths can be in any form whether that person was defeated by Haru or that person was just sacrificing for Haru or Elie's sake. Of course I won't tell you who died in this manga so if you don't like the idea of switching from happy moment to sad moment, then honestly ditch this manga. No offense to those who love this manga but if you don't like the idea, I'm seriously asking you to ditch the manga. Surprisingly enough, I could actually guess it right for who is really Elie. Kudos to me since I never thought that I could guess correctly for shonen manga. I think this is the only shonen manga where I could predict the storyline correctly.
As you read through, you will notice that the bad people who used to fight Haru will end up allying with him instead of fighting against him. Yeah, it sounds really funny even the most strongest and cruelest person, Lucia wasn't really that evil. Of course, evil people supposed to remain evil but it feels like the evil people chose to repent at the end in Rave's case.
As for the artwork, I don't get it why people got easily confused Rave or Fairytale with Eichiro Oda's (One Piece mangaka) artwork. Yes, I'm also familiar with Eichiro Oda's artwork style but at first glance it's obviously different. I know it's funny but I can't helped it that people got easily confused with his art style. Speaking of art style, the drawing style improved as the story continued. This is a good thing since the early style looks odd to me. Kudos to Hiro Mashima for dramatically improved his artwork. Take a look at the difference here:
Before
After
Overall, this manga has a good art with great storyline but there are always sad moments. If you really want manga fulls with happy moment and without deaths involved this manga is not for you. Give this manga a try since this is an early manga by Hiro Mashima.
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