I agree with you that the mecha/races stories are getting repetitive.

And I miss the older drawing style with highly detailed backgrounds.. 
Nowadays he seems to draw the main characters much bigger/closer (and 
belldandy fatter) to mask the fact that he's not putting that much attention 
to the background. (it's now usually blank white space.)



----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Andersson" <vizierz2002@yahoo.com>
To: <megami@usagi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:44 AM
Subject: [megami:31321] Re: belldandy cosplay returning?


> Possibly. The manga used to be much more entertaining
> when centered around the more fantastic elements &
> characters mingled with the mundane & some gratuitious
> Urd/Peorth cheesecake thrown in, as opposed to Chihiro
> & racing repeatedly taking the center stage.
>
> I always felt that such amazing characters have a
> higher potential which Fujishima usually isn't nearly
> touching, excepting perhaps the first Peorth arc & AMG
> movie. It's too bad that we're sticking in just to see
> it stagnate rather than move upwards.
>
> --- Gavin Lee <gavstarlee@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Think he's getting bored and running out of ideas?
>> :(
>>
>>
>> >From: AstroNerdBoy <usr1054@astronerdboy.com>
>> >Reply-To: megami@usagi.org
>> >To: <megami@usagi.org>
>> >Subject: [megami:31318] Re: belldandy cosplay
>> returning?
>> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 0:06:24 -0600
>> >
>> > > > well...he's into motorcycles and all kinds of
>> stuff
>> > > > one would expect of a man with a midlife
>> crisis.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Actually, Fujishima-sensei is 42 this year. When
>> he created AMG, he was
>> > > only 24 years old. And back then he was already
>> into bikes, cars and
>> > > anything mechanical.
>> > >
>> >
>> >Yeah.  He's had many stories centering on bikes,
>> cars, and even one with a
>> >plane.  Of course those back then were more
>> entertaining than the most
>> >recent one he put out.
>
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