Gyakuten Saiban

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Finished

Published

Aug 11, 2006 to Oct 17, 2008

Authors:Kuroda, Kenji, Maekawa, Kazuo

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Pixelduhst

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Just to be clear, this is not an adaption of the games, but rather, brand new cases. Now, reading this a while back as someone who has only heard of the franchise, but never played the games, the manga was a tad confusing to start off with. I say this only because it seemed to skip over the entire background of any of the characters, and left me wondering who many of them were, why they were there, and wondering if I had missed something. However, if you can piece together the big picture, it's a few thoroughly entertaining cases. After reading the manga, I wentout and played through the Gyakuten Saiban series, and the first game of the Gyakuten Kenji series, and it changed my opinion of the manga a bit- so if you have already played the games, this part might be a bit more valuable to you. The cases are short and simple. None of them are incredibly perplexing or s never continued. The characters you've grown to love come back very...mind boggling compared to the game. That would most likely be my largest complaint here, but understandable, seeing as how the series wa well... in character, if not a bit more developed, thanks to them moving out of the very static visual novel format. Nothing of the story itself seems to stray out of place compared to the games. The art style is a bit different, but everyone is still easily identifiable. I might not suggest this to people who have never played, at the very least, a Phoenix Wright game, but otherwise, I think it's an entertaining read- especially once you've run out of games to play.

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Kagen no Tsuki

Meitantei Conan

The Ace Attorney manga. Right, this was a pain to find, however if you can I highly recommend that you do read it. Ace Attorney is a VN series following the defence attorney Phoenix Wright as he defends his clients in court, this manga is no exception. Just like the Ace Attorney VN, the manga series consists of several trials in which Wright defends his "unique" clients. Plot - Multiple different trials/cases that are completely unique to the manga and haven't appeared in the games. Each "turnabout" took place over 2 chapters at most making them relatively short in comparison to the games. However, this isnot necessarily a bad thing, the trials are short, but still maintain the mystery and twists like the AA:PW VNs do, if you enjoyed the AA games then I highly recommend this. Art - The art is good, nothing too flashy and it does its job. Characters - The manga uses the typical PW:AA cast, (Phoenix/Maya/Edgeworth/Gumshoes/etc.) and has it's own manga exclusive characters from the trials. Each one is wacky and exaggerated much like the VN characters and the original cast stay true to their VN counterparts with none of them feeling out of character. Pandering - This manga does a great job to pandering to AA fans, with tons of references to the games and even appearances from smaller characters like Wendy Oldbag or Eldoon. It keeps up the tradition of name puns for most (if not all) of the characters introduced and has a good roster of manga-only/VN characters. Enjoyment - It's a relatively short manga series of 5 volumes/15 chapters and shouldn't take all that long to read, perfectly crafted for any AA fans, and might be a good gateway into the series if you are considering playing the VNs, it might benefit you to read the first trial to get a feel of the zaniness of the series.

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