Ongrijpbaar op een bepaalde manier, zodra je het wilt beetpakken is het verdwenen, maar als je erin meegaat verdwijn je in het boek net zoals je in een schilderij kunt verdwijnen. Natalie (in Japanese). March 10, 2016. Archived from the original on July 4, 2020 . Retrieved July 25, 2020. Another one of the Louvre-sponsored graphic novels about the Louvre, one of the most ambitious of all of them, a tw0-volume manga by Taiyo Matsumoto (Sunny) filled with mystery and fantasy and pathos and strangeness and an appreciation for the attractions of art for anyone. As with some others from the series, this one depends on what happens at the Louvre after hours, during the night, behind the scenes; with that Toy Story assumption--when a toy falls in the playroom and there is no adult around to hear it, that means magic happens. As for the plot, it could be confusing at times, but overall was still enjoyable. Not to mention, but the story itself was a beautiful comentary on coping with loss. Now, was it perfect? No, and it could be somewhat boring at times. Some of the human characters were one-dimensional, but (for instance) there was an old man who claimed his sister disappeared into the paintings when they were children. I honestly enjoyed his character arc and how it tied to the overall plot and the main cat, Snowbebe.

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Een manga die Taiyo Matsumoto in opdracht voor het Louvre maakte, het op sommige momenten surrealistische verhaal speelt zich vooral af tijdens de nachten in het Louvre, waar op de zolder een paar katten leven en een meisje ooit in een schilderij verdween. Het is een echte Matsumoto qua thematiek, het belang van kunst, de surreële elementen die erin verwerkt zijn, maar ook de outcasts die worstelen met hun eenzaamheid, pijn en het zoeken naar een eigen plek in deze wereld. Het zijn elementen die onlosmakelijk met zijn hele wezen verbonden zijn en altijd in meer of mindere mate in zijn werk terug zijn te vinden. De gebroken dromen en de hoop zijn in wezen die van Matsumoto zelf die als kind opgroeide in een gezinsvervangend tehuis en dat zijn leven lang met zich meedraagt. Ik ben er in elk geval altijd door geraakt en hou erg van zijn werk. Het is niet altijd even toegankelijk, en als je van een flitsend verhaal met vaart houdt moet je dit zeker niet oppakken, het is traag, en, ik heb een boek nog niet eerder zo genoemd, een erg introvert werk. Minpuntje is de titel die het boek kreeg. The Cats of the Louvre is natuurlijk heel duidelijk voor een Louvre-uitgave, maar vind ik veel te zoet en een mismatch qua inhoud, te vlak. Van mij had het vernoemd mogen worden naar het schilderij in de hoofdrol 'the funeral procession of love', dat beschrijft perfect het verdriet van verloren liefdes, een rode draad in het boek, waar kunst een troost is zodra je er alleen mee kunt zijn in de nachtelijke eenzaamheid. The book is part of a series of graphic novels centered in and around the museum that have come out in recent years. I’ve only read a few of them, but I would have to say that Cats of the Louvre is the best and most memorable of those. Rather than rely upon the museum’s reputation to justify an artily oblique series of images, this book contains an actual story.

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Along with Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier, the series won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in the Asia category for Viz Media's English release. [8] Most of these artists are French, but increasingly the Louvre is working with Japanese manga artists. Hirohiko Araki's Rohan at the Louvre (a spin-off of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) and Jiro Taniguchi's Guardians of the Louvre have previously been translated into English. Now Viz Media is collecting both volumes of Taiyo Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre for American publication. The omnibus hits stores on Sept. 17.

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Cats of the Louvre - The Fall 2019 Manga Guide". Anime News Network. October 28, 2019. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020 . Retrieved July 25, 2020. Oct 28 NBA Star Rui Hachimura Gets Animated and Possibly Saves the World in New Crayon Shin-chan Episode And how does it read?” you may ask. (Go on. Ask it.) Quite well, quite well. Matsumoto has an interesting style, more expressionistic than your typical manga artist. In particular, look at his cat people, physical characteristics ridiculously exaggerated. And yet it works. He somehow embodies their essence, and … just … it works.I give this book a four with the very important (to me, at any rate) caveat that if you are the sort of person who can't stand it when an animal is hurt in fiction, this will be a little hard to read. That certainly was the case for me in a few places, and given that the story is about a feral cat colony living in the attics of the Louvre in Paris and that it's by Taiyo Matsumoto, who rarely skimps on the harsher realities of a situation, it is within its rights to be there. But I could absolutely see it ruining the book for some readers. Taiyo Matsumoto is one of the more unpredictable and unusual manga creators out there. Past titles like Tikkonkinkreet and Ping Pong suggest his ideas are outliers in manga canon. They don't have the usual codified cute faces or awkward teen dramas of many series. Cats of the Louvre might be his most unexpected story yet. To start with, this is an absolutely gorgeous book! The hardcover has a nice, solid heft to it. And the use of contrasting textures between the stripe across the top and the rest of the cover is a tactile delight. If you're reading a digital copy of this book, I feel sorry for you. Its beauty as a physical object is, in my opinion, a significant part of the experience of reading it. The art is pretty avant-garde, which allows for wide variety of emotions, ambience and the overall feel of the story. It goes really well with the story and it's setting, as well as characters' personalities and experiences. It creates this impression of the museum itself being alive and quite literally being intertwined with everything and everyone inside of it, making you think how everything in life is related as well. It is thanks to this art that we get to experience not only the emotions of one character, but of every single one inside the panel, as well as the overall emotion that the situation evokes in us, making some of the moments that more relatable.