Coo's World

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:45 am

By this point, I'm pretty accustomed to having no one care about my projects, so feel free to not post your feedbacks here if you don't care either way about the abovementioned series.

Street Musician Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 530

I couldn't access the staff dump for the raws, so I didn't bother reading it. Sorry.

Scoundrel Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 403

To cut this off at the knees.. yeah Kotonoha is doing this series as well and there was initially some friction over this but we have resolved our differences and basically one of the agreements was we will both ignore each other's efforts and brook no posts that compare the two versions whether positively or negatively. Any posts of that nature will be deleted.

Additionally, we will be doing some joint projects in the future.

Roadie Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 58

WAR@!#!@#

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 402

I really liked the chapter, thanks for doing this Exclamation

Theres so many things that I like about this manga. First of all the art is gorgeous, both the characters and the background. You know the art is special when you feel the B&W pages are prettier than the color pages.

Renei is really cool. Her many expressions are really nice, and I really like her character. In fact she may be one of my favourite manga female characters period.
Her scenes are all varied and each of them are done so nicely; such as when she's chatting with her family, or being mean to Ryota, or thinking her thoughts and feelings, or her weird actions in the dream world. Great translation for all the above, BTW. Her words always fit her expression and mood perfectly. Her script is always varied yet always natural.

The dream world of the manga is beautiful. It is something like a fantasy adventure world, but the manga manages to keep it as a 'dream' world, not a fantasy world. The dream world is beautiful to read, with lots of cute ideas and gorgeous images. But what's amazing is Renei's actions in her dreams.

Again, thanks for doing this!

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:55 am

alegria wrote:

Renei is really cool. Her many expressions are really nice, and I really like her character. In fact she may be one of my favourite manga female characters period.

You could always post this piece of information at the "Your Favorite MS Chick" thread.

Fan Boy Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

this has recently been published by fanfare as 'a patch of dreams'.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:35 am

I guess you can call it "licensed and dropped" then. Razz

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:39 pm

"A Patch of Dreams" is considered to be "Part 3" of Coo's World, while the two volumes that we were working on is Parts 1 and 2. I don't know if we released enough of this to make it apparent, but if you read the summary closely, there are some significant differences from the setup for Coo's World (as well as plenty of similarities). At any rate, it's not the same manga.

Fan Boy Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 3

Hmm... all I just want to say that this project is really awesome!!!

Smile

Can't wait to read more. Smile

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:28 am

Chapter 4 (end of first volume) has been translated! It's just waiting for editing.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:20 pm

Nice. What I've read so far is solid though nothing overly impressive aside from the art, but I've heard some great things about the sequel Ponent Mon released last year. Hopefully I'll finally get around to buying it soon, and Coo's World is still a good read, so looking forward to it getting back on track.

Fan Boy Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

I just now downloaded the fourth chapter. I'm so glad to see that it hadn't been abondoned! It's my very favorite of MangaScreener's projects. Very Oz- or Wonderland-esque, which I love.

Very patiently awaiting future releases. Thanks for your hard work!

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:25 am

Many thanks for the scanlations of volume 1; I'm looking forward to reading volume 2. Has there been any recent progress on this?

The dream world in Coo's World is satisfyingly bizarre and surprising, but what really excites me about this manga is the interplay of real world and dream world elements. It starts out with a psychological conflict being explored through dreams, but then the boundary lines between the real world and the dream world start to become fluid. There are other manga and anime which do this-- notably Kon Satoshi's "Paranoia Agent" and "Paprika"-- but I think Coo's World does it unusually well. Also, the art is wonderful.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:26 am

Progress-wise, I haven't seen Summer (the translator) around for months... so don't hold your breath until he pops up again.