Taiyo Matsumoto
Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 4.02 | 762 Users | 96 Reviews
Details Based On Books GoGo Monster
| Title | : | GoGo Monster |
| Author | : | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | December 8th 2009 by VIZ Media LLC (first published November 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Manga. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Seinen |
Interpretation To Books GoGo Monster
A poetic tale of a young boy’s overactive imagination. R to L (Japanese Style). GoGo Monster is a nuanced tale of a young boy and his overly active imagination. Nine-year-old Yuki Tachibana lives in two worlds. In one world, he is a loner ridiculed by his classmated and reprimanded by his teachers for telling stories of supernatural beings that only he can see. In the other worlds, the super natural beings vie for power with malevolent spirits who bring chaos into the school, the students lives and nature itself.Describe Books During GoGo Monster
| Original Title: | GOGOăƒ¢ăƒ³ă‚¹ă‚¿ăƒ¼ |
| ISBN: | 1421532093 (ISBN13: 9781421532097) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Based On Books GoGo Monster
Ratings: 4.02 From 762 Users | 96 ReviewsCritique Based On Books GoGo Monster
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation, but also of extreme receptiveness and openness and thus of being in nerve to nerve contact with life, and experiences of friendship as being ever-expanding worlds unto themselves IBooks in which children are special, different creatures from those strange adult people tend to be either excellent or terrible. Because theres so much you can do with that premise but theres a danger of it getting to be cloying or precious.Gogo Monster handles this balance superbly. The book stars a kid named Yuki whos right on the balance of teenagerhood. For him, getting older means not seeing the worlds wonderful monsters anymore and hes desperately scared that no matter what he does, he
Absolutely brilliant, moving, poetic, surreal story that not only pushes the boundaries of comics and manga, but also shows what is ONLY possible in this medium. The art which seems awkward at first is a language in itself, in a way. And the more I read the more I became amazed by the art!Strange as it sounds, I felt this story shares similar themes to those found in the film "Donnie Darko." And this I think, is a good thing.
As usual, Matsumoto's magical, sometimes tender child characters have jagged edges, with some using immature brutality to hurry their growth into adults and others fearfully fighting adulthood with their mature innocence. The illustrations are simultaneously beautiful and horrific in their perfect caricatures of every type of person and fiercely imagined creature. A story that merges reality with dreamworld, mental illness and isolation with social independence, GoGo Monster is a must read for
This was a remarkable piece of work. Of growing up and escaping through imaginary worlds and beings. Of being a child and finding independence, being a loner or part of the pack. Of being a teacher, a carer and having to deal with young developing minds. The scratchy illustration style and architectural precision made this one that I fully escaped into as the characters went through all the seasons. Wonderful.
This is really a pretty amazing book, one that displays a sophisticated awareness of genre and which uses that to reach past that into some universal realm of growing older and exploring friendship.Ostensibly the story of two, or maybe three grade school friends, at the center we find reclusive and artistic Yuki Tachibana who draws obsessively on his desk and who can see "others," an extra-dimensional species (?) who threaten this reality from their base on the fourth floor of Yuki's grade
Matsumoto has created an eerie, bizarre story in GoGo Monster. The first thing I noticed about this one was the unusual design of the book itself. Its a sturdy hardcover with red page edges. The comic starts right on the front endpaper, with the title cover being relegated to the cardboard slipcase, rather then the book. Its a gorgeous printing, but bizarrely the slip case is made from cheap cardboard. My copy from amazon even has to be re-glued as its coming apart at the bottom. The rest of the
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