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Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted by Matt Yamashita

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I was thinning out the manga collection to give to The Carolina Manga Library and found this which must have been a gift from a friend knowing I love Ghostbusters as I know I didn't buy it. I'm glad I didn't because this was just...mediocre. Honestly, the Saturday Morning cartoon had better plots and art. Even though this is put out by TokyoPop I classed it as a graphic novel not manga because it's very obviously American artists/art style driven.

Speaking of the art, yeah it's pretty bad. Sorry, it just is. It's often hard to tell Venckman from Ray. Winston is barely used in the storylines and the humor is a bit on the juvenile side (are men in women's clothing really funny any more?)

The storylines aren't memorable either, there was something about a theater production with a producer who insisted on aircraft, a woman's clothing line was strangling the wearer, the rather awful mentor of Egon whose story could almost be touching and then the idea of something coming for all three ghostbusters (but not winston, leaving him to the rescue).

At least I can put it in the donation pile without regret.



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