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Detroit Metal City, Vol. 1 (2009)

by Kiminori Wakasugi(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1421527421 (ISBN13: 9781421527420)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

VIZ Media LLC

series

Detroit Metal City

review 1: Soichi Negishi is a young man who’s moved to the big city to start a career writing acoustic ballads and bubblegum pop music, the kind of music he truly loves - only to wind up as Krauser II, the frontman to Detroit Metal City, the most outrageously offensive and hugely popular heavy metal band in Japan! But nobody knows Soichi is actually Krauser II - Soichi must keep his identity secret from his parents who would be shocked to learn that the foul-mouthed, Satan-worshipping, defiler of virgins is their son, and find a way of getting out to pursue his dream of writing Swedish pop music. The setup sounds kind of interesting and funny, and it is, at least at first. Detroit Metal City are basically Kiss in the way they look and they’re mega-popular, and hey isn’t it wei... morerd how the frontman is actually a meek young man who’s still a virgin and isn’t even that interested in heavy metal? Haha... and then it wears out. DMC’s foul-mouthed manager is pretty funny because of her vulgarity but that too gets old really quick and her appearances feel like the whacky neighbour in a sitcom showing up to do their bit in that week’s episode before disappearing until next week’s show.That’s basically all this book has - one joke, and it plays out over and over again throughout the book. This book doesn’t progress further than the Soichi’s “split personalities that are radically different” setup. I don’t know if it changes at the end because I gave up reading this two-thirds of the way through, but this book’s “jokes” get old really fast and then they repeat and repeat and repeat and oh god, it’s so boring! I’m stunned that there are 6 books in this manga series!
review 2: I've heard a lot of people talk about this series and how outrageously funny it is, so I decided to give it a try. It was amusing but in more of a sit-com way, where I understood what was funny about the goings-on but only laughed out loud once or twice. I have to assume that the truly bizarre antics come to the fore in latter volumes of the series, which makes sense as things would have to either escalate or get really repetitive really fast. I'm not sure at this point if I will seek out more DMC - these days "good but not great" doesn't have a tremendous shot at beating out all the other things competing for my time and attention. less

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