AOZORA Finder Rock [Kindle Edition]

UME (Author), OZAWA Takahiro (Author), SEO Asako (Author)

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Product Description

The first japanese MANGA on kindle.
Tetsuro is working to digital-retouch japanese idol's photo. His main job is erasing idol's 'incorrect' appearance. One day he finds a his ex-classmate in his photo...
26Pages

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1525 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0035LDN7I
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,517 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A FIRST Japanese cartoon?, January 24, 2010

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ytsuboi (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: AOZORA Finder Rock (Kindle Edition)

Probably, this cartoon is the first one from Japan. Written in Japanese.
I regret this book is NOT made with high resolution. Bit, I know Kindle book format has many limitation on high resolution picture. So, I rated 4.

The story is good. I feel a warm glow in my heart.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quietly effective (and yay, English!), March 26, 2010

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J. R. Brown (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AOZORA Finder Rock (Kindle Edition)

This appears to be chapter one of a longer manga (or possibly a rather open-ended short story, although I hope it's the former). Tetsuro Kenmochi is a young man employed doing photography and digital retouch of sexy women for a men's magazine company. Back in high school, when he was a budding photographer, he had an unrequited crush on Karina, another student at his school and an aspiring idol singer, who went on to be a model and now features in one of the photographs he's working on. His crush has obviously not gone away.

The story (so far) is slow-moving and character-driven. The art is spare and cleanly laid out, and the pages are well-composed although text-heavy in spots, but the actual draftsmanship is rather weak. The translation is clean and fluent, and the retouch and lettering are fine. I look forward to more installments.

(I previously reviewed this when it was in Japanese only, and now that it has been updated to be in English, I have revised the review.)