Customer Reviews

Manga University's Manga Tarot (Cards Plus Guidebook)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The art for this Manga Tarot is adorable. The illustrations also match their symbolic meanings. In the Major Arcana, some characters appear in multiple cards (ex. The Magician is actually The Fool grown up) which adds depth to the "story" of the deck, and also helps with reading. The guide that comes with the book is also good, providing keywords and info for the Majors, and a paragraph of info on all the Minors. Also included are a number of spreads and ideas for making your own.

For the Minors, the Ace and Faces are illustrated, but the rest of the pips are not. If you're a reader who enjoys the freedom that unillustrated pips give, you will certainly love this deck. However, if you simply want this deck to collect, the illustrated cards are nice enough to make up for the unillustrated cards.

If you enjoy cute art, collect, or read, you should definitely pick up this deck.

I just love the artwork on this deck. It is in the Japanese Anime-Manga style (like a cartoon or comic book style) and is 100% overflowing with cuteness. This deck does use pips for the 2 to 10 numbers of the minor arcana. That seems to be standard practice for Manga artwork tarot decks, so I it doesn't disappoint me.

Physically, the cards are larger than I expected. They measure ~5" x 3.25" which is a bit larger than normal size. The book that comes with the deck is well done. Over 60 pages with bios of the artist, Saori Takarai, and Psychic Jada who worked with the artist. The book includes interpretations for the cards and a number of spreads to use. It even provides suggestions for making your own spreads.

It says that Ms. Takarai has drawn "Manga Moods" and "Manga Sisters". I love her drawings for "The Fool" and "The Magician". They combine the tarot and manga very well. These cards use much of the standard tarot card symbolism on the majors, aces and face cards. That is a nice bonus if you want to read with them.

I have not read with this deck. I mainly bought it for the Manga artwork. I don't see the minor cards missing meaningful artwork as a big problem if you wanted to use the deck for readings. It is a fun deck that will not be offensive to anyone. The cartoon characters are fun to look at and also have tarot meaning behind them. While not everyone is going to like this deck, and it might be too cute for many people, I am glad to have this Manga tarot deck in my collection.

My box cover looked different. See my photo.

Ok. So I bought this deck because I thought i would like it more than my old one. Part of Tarot is connecting witht the deck you use. I also thought it would be a more Unisex deck. Not really. The back is shades of pink and the pictures are real shojo. I'd recommend these cards for girls anday of the week but not so much for us guys. The quality of the cards and the guidebook and cards are outstading though. So, I will try to get past the fault and make these cards my own.

I bought this out of curiosity since I knew a little about tarots and wanted to try it out. The guidebook is pretty helpful and it's not so bad starting out, but you'll probably have to refer back to it when you're reading fortunes like me if you're a newbie.

I had some friends come over and they were curious and wanted me to read their fortunes... scarily enough it predicted an event for all of us on Wednesday and sure enough, we found out a party was on Wednesday. Haha maybe there is a bit of truth to these.

I do like these cards but they are kind of big and it makes it a little difficult to shuffle. Also, the lack meanings for upside-down draws and what not is a bit of a downer. Still it's great fun to have friends over and read their fortunes.

I can't believe I pre ordered this so long ago. According to what I read on a website somewhere, this deck should have been fully illustrated. It is - if you count 7 coins as being an illustration. The major arcana, the aces and the courts are illustrated, whereas the rest are pips. Not easy to use and yet again what I call a half way version.

It has three stars because it's cute, if a little more childish than I imagined. If you don't care about pips or fully illustrated minor arcanca, this is ok.... but I prefer the magical manga tarot, much prettier in style.