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(More customer reviews)Something that can annoy me a lot is a manga that takes a long time to actually get into the story because its hung up on a really long intro. Well, in Tarot Cafe, the alternative seems to be...no intro whatsoever. You jump right into the first story, without hearing a shred of backstory on the main character, Pamela. And surprisingly, it worked-because Pamela is only a medium stringing all the stories together, which are all slightly ethreal, and have a gently painful lesson in each.
If you read the blurb, the stories certainly sound unique. And they are, though I think they have a greater depth potential than what the author ended up using. Like I said before, Pamela shows up briefly in each tale, but ultimately everything that the characters do are based on their own personal tragedy. I liked all of them, because each is a different take on love, and though every romance isn't resolved the way the central character wished it would, you see that there is always room to be happy, as sad as getting there was. It's too heartbreaking to be a romance, but Tarot Cafe has love around every corner, and it chides you to not get carried away in a fantasy of "Happy ever after"
The artwork is by a remarkable artist, who also illustrated Les Bijoux. It is often praised for its beautiful pictures but critisized for a sub-par story. Park Sun Sang did not write the story for that manghwa, but I think she did for this one. I'm impressed, because the quality of plot and dialogue has multplied ten fold. I love Les Bijoux, but I have to admit that its textural contents were a league away from the level of the artist brilliance. Of course in Tarot cafe, the pictures don't look quite as nice as Les Bijoux- there's far less toning, and the people just aren't as "beautiful" anymore. But they're still impressive.
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