![]() ![]() However, the manga suffers from its source material. ![]() Tanabe’s realistic style effectively illustrates the story in volume 1 (despite fairly plain character design) and goes on to a unique artistic vision for the more fantastical volume 2. This solid adaptation is a great take on the impossible: visualizing Lovecraft's description of what is incomprehensible to man. I haven't read the book, so I can't say if it's better, but I have a feeling it can't be much better than this. Aside from that, Gou Tanabe's two-page spreads were so amazing at times, especially toward the end. The characters were a bit bland, like they were only there for the sake of the story, and I didn't feel their spirit, and the art made it difficult to tell them apart. In the beginning, I found it a bit slow, and it But as you correctly guessed, everything goes terribly wrong when they find some ancient "specimens". The story is about a team of scientists going on an expedition in Antarctica. If I had to describe this manga in one word, it would be fantastically weird. Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and I am now hooked. "It was a horror that a single screamed word of their voices had survived, echoing through unthinkable time, distorted, and mocked, and mocking Takeli-li! Takeli-li!"Īt the Mountains of Madness is my first dose of H.P. ![]()
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