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Grey, Vol. 1: Perfect Collection
GREY V.1 PERFECT COLLECTION TPB GN Tagami Tagami
296 pages, Paperback
First published October 28, 1988
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March 10, 2026
Oh so 80's!
There are part of this book that are just freaking amazing nostalgia, I was a huge fan of Tagami's work and so seeing it again after so long is a lot of fun. The illustrations are as crisp and technically inspired as I remembered, but I had forgotten how similar all his characters look.
Tagami certainly has some creative talent but I feel that a lot of it is squandered on juvenile tits and ass gags, and all of the interesting world building is completely overshadowed by the complete lack of decent character writing. You can probably read this entire series, skipping the character dialogues, and still come out at the end of the book with a more than decent understanding of the "Plot"
So why should one even bother reading this? Because the fight sequences are really cool, and that is sometimes enough to get over the fact that the the floating city looks like a massive dildo, but probably not enough to forgive him for killing off not one, but TWO of the characters, arguably for no good reason, 2 pages before the end of the damn collection. Dude. Really?
There are part of this book that are just freaking amazing nostalgia, I was a huge fan of Tagami's work and so seeing it again after so long is a lot of fun. The illustrations are as crisp and technically inspired as I remembered, but I had forgotten how similar all his characters look.
Tagami certainly has some creative talent but I feel that a lot of it is squandered on juvenile tits and ass gags, and all of the interesting world building is completely overshadowed by the complete lack of decent character writing. You can probably read this entire series, skipping the character dialogues, and still come out at the end of the book with a more than decent understanding of the "Plot"
So why should one even bother reading this? Because the fight sequences are really cool, and that is sometimes enough to get over the fact that the the floating city looks like a massive dildo, but probably not enough to forgive him for killing off not one, but TWO of the characters, arguably for no good reason, 2 pages before the end of the damn collection. Dude. Really?
November 25, 2016
This is one of my all-time favorite mangas. I have read some reviewers consider it shallow, but it has such deep political implications that were groundbreaking at the time of publication within the genre that I still consider it a must-read, even if the apocalyptic future theme has been overused in recent times.
August 10, 2018
Me enteré de este manga mientras leía articulos sobre la muerte de Ellison. Resulta que a Harlan le gustaba bastante y hasta le escribío un prologo para su edición gringa.
Y pues me dio curiosidad, lo busqué y está bien. Está muy ochentero, el personaje principal es un un poco básico pero bastante carismatico y la trama es interesante pero bastante sencilla: un futuro apocaliptico a la madmax donde ser una especie de caza recompensas es la única forma de subir la escalera social y un montón de robotsitos y computadoras malvadas.
Cumple y ya.
Y pues me dio curiosidad, lo busqué y está bien. Está muy ochentero, el personaje principal es un un poco básico pero bastante carismatico y la trama es interesante pero bastante sencilla: un futuro apocaliptico a la madmax donde ser una especie de caza recompensas es la única forma de subir la escalera social y un montón de robotsitos y computadoras malvadas.
Cumple y ya.
October 25, 2023
Me decidí a comprar la edición española de estos cómics ya que desde pequeño me quedé alucinado con su película anime.
No soy fan de los mangas, ni de los animes. Pero he de decir que la película de Grey: Objetivo Digital hizo que unos 25 años después me interesase por el cómic y así saber como terminaba la historia, ya que la película quedaba con un final abierto.
He disfrutado.
No soy fan de los mangas, ni de los animes. Pero he de decir que la película de Grey: Objetivo Digital hizo que unos 25 años después me interesase por el cómic y así saber como terminaba la historia, ya que la película quedaba con un final abierto.
He disfrutado.
March 3, 2012
Consider this review as relevant to all the volumes listed -
Illustrating (literally!) that the cliche of manga 'big eyes' character design is just that - a cliche - GREY starts out as a non-specific post-Collapse 'endless warfare' scenario and morphs into a nihilistic Pilgrim's Progress where the imagery, situations and tech get stranger and stranger. All the while the titular character pretty much stays a complete bastard throughout. I really dug the artwork, although I know folks who HATE how the characters look.
Illustrating (literally!) that the cliche of manga 'big eyes' character design is just that - a cliche - GREY starts out as a non-specific post-Collapse 'endless warfare' scenario and morphs into a nihilistic Pilgrim's Progress where the imagery, situations and tech get stranger and stranger. All the while the titular character pretty much stays a complete bastard throughout. I really dug the artwork, although I know folks who HATE how the characters look.
March 5, 2009
A little bit shallow war story from the future. Very quick but quite enjoyable reading. The art is very average.
April 21, 2013
Loved the artwork in this manga (he has his own unique style).the storyline kept me interested,loved the SF scenarios.(years afterwards kept a lookout for more works by tagami-san).
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