Helpful Score: 1
I have a mildly odd perspective on this, since I read the manga just as I finished the chapters in the book.
So when I say 'the book is better' it's not just the overall general scoffing.
The material is just a little... dense, to be depicted in visuals. So much of the journey is internal dialog, and Kieli realizing things on her own, since neither she nor Harvey talk much. You also don't get much perspective in the visuals for the culture of the 'alien' planet or the 'war' that decimated it. (And saying that makes the book look like grand prose, but it's not that deep, just you don't get a feel of the oppression and hopelessness that gives it a very bleak tone.)
So the manga isn't very different from any other 'unpopular school girl sees ghosts, follows tall, dark, asocial loner with a past and has misadventures.' genre.
It's neither gothic nor horror in tone.
And it's WAY too crowded and ... too much black is used on the page. (But that's aesthetics.)
So yeah, read the book, much more satisfying.
So when I say 'the book is better' it's not just the overall general scoffing.
The material is just a little... dense, to be depicted in visuals. So much of the journey is internal dialog, and Kieli realizing things on her own, since neither she nor Harvey talk much. You also don't get much perspective in the visuals for the culture of the 'alien' planet or the 'war' that decimated it. (And saying that makes the book look like grand prose, but it's not that deep, just you don't get a feel of the oppression and hopelessness that gives it a very bleak tone.)
So the manga isn't very different from any other 'unpopular school girl sees ghosts, follows tall, dark, asocial loner with a past and has misadventures.' genre.
It's neither gothic nor horror in tone.
And it's WAY too crowded and ... too much black is used on the page. (But that's aesthetics.)
So yeah, read the book, much more satisfying.
