Comments on: Immortal Rain/Meteor Methuselah Mini Review (manga)

By: misspsycho

misspsycho — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:38:02 +0000

hi.
I can relate to miss alaena night. Immortal Rain, is by far, the most beautiful manga that i’ve ever read, although i am not really sure of its “originality” as what miss nothayama has said. Honestly, i don’t know trigun that well. I’ve just started reading the manga and if not for it’s awkward art, i may have given it a ten.
yes, i may be biased but if i were to choose, of course i’d pick immortal rain. well, how can i say this? the first time i read it, it moved me. i don’t usually cry or show emotions but this one manga, due to its compelling storyline and adorable and relatable characters, inspired me a lot. god, the script is just so amazing that many dialogues (or monologues) can actually be considered as “quotes” themselves. It’s simple yet complex at the same time. Sorry, it’s just that i don’t really have the ability to explain it well but i just so love this manga.
This is one of those things that made me really thankful that manga is ever made at all.
i’ve been waiting for volume 9. well, i’ve always been willing to wait..

P.S. sorry for my crappy english..and thank you very much for the review..

By: nothayama

nothayama — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:16:16 +0000

Thank you both for your comments. I totally understand why you would like Immortal Rain — it’s one of those series that I think I would have liked a lot had I read it earlier. I was a big, big Trigun fan about six years ago, and if I didn’t know that series so well it probably wouldn’t have bothered me that Immortal Rain takes so much from Trigun. But as it was, I couldn’t get into Immortal Rain at all — the obvious borrowing of major plot points and even individual panels was really distracting to me. The five-or-so volumes of Immortal Rain I read just felt like a prettier, sanitized rip-off of a series I loved. I haven’t read the latest volumes, and maybe the story takes a dramatic turn in volumes six-through-eight. If I have a chance I might take another look at it, but I probably won’t have the time for a while.

By: Marco Kuis

Marco Kuis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:17:14 +0000

Man, I love Immortal Rain. I thought it looked nice and so I picked up the first four volumes. Now I’m dying to read the rest of it. Give me more Immortal Rain!

By: Alaena Night

Alaena Night — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:57:42 +0000

Hi! I agree with your review, in that Immortal Rain is similar to Trigun in many ways. I read a lot of your other reviews and totally loved them! ^^ I really enjoy your thoughts on a lot of these series, whether I agree completely with them, or disagree, getting a new viewpoint on things.

If you read farther into Immortal Rain, though, past volumes one and two, up to three and four, and beyond, it really begins to stand out, making itself separate from the same-old same-old similarities it shares with Trigun and other series.

The characters are amazingly vivid and well-portrayed, even the creepy Yuca, who I can’t help but love. (Is it wrong to love a deeply disturbed little kid? Hehe, probably.)

You may have already read all of the series so far, in which case this is little more than pointless rambling, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend it. (Eight volumes have been released so far. Release speed is slow both here, and in Japan.) Of course, I may not have been exposed to enough manga to understand when something is just a carbon copy of others, but in many places, Immortal Rain seems refreshingly original and interesting, despite some similarities to Trigun. It makes itself stand out by relating over-used situations to well-developed characters and making them that much better.

Actually… if I’d started at the beginning, I probably wouldn’t love Immortal Rain as much as I do now. I actually picked up the fourth volume because of its cover illustration while sitting on the floor and bored to tears, when dragged along, unwillingly, with my Magic the Gathering obsessed family to a card shop.

Umm… I’m sorry for rambling. I’d be honored if you had a chance to reply. I’m overly obsessed with this underrated manga, and can’t find anyone to talk to about it. I’d love to hear someone else’s thoughts.