Twilight Manga Confirmed

Hopping on the graphic novel bandwagon comes Twilight.  Entertainment Weekly reports that a manga style adaptation of the hit novel will be reaching us soon, and they have scored some first glimpse previews.  Honestly I can’t fathom where to start in regards to this news.  I need to go on to say that I’ve not had much interest in the series thus far, and I don’t believe I ever will really.  With each bit of news in relation to Twilight, I find my revulsion of the series to go up exponentially.  

As if Twilight wasn’t popular enough with the teen fangirls, making it into a manga format is like creating some horrendous black hole of annoying obsessions from which there is internal squealing as it tries to glomp all things in the universe to death.  Then, however, my curiosity rose a bit.  I tried to convince myself that maybe it won’t be that bad.  This soon faltered quickly though.  I realized in retrospect that this was to be a manga style.  I just want to establish that most of the time when manga techniques are applied to American licenses it tends to fail miserably.  This isn’t to say that when styles by Japanese artists are applied it ruins things.  There are a great number of series that applied the two cultures very well.  The Marvel Mangaverse series was interesting because it retold everything in a light hearted jokey way about the style.  Snikt! By Nihei Tsutomu (my favorite artist) worked for its style and setting, but it didn’t really fit Wolverine so well so it’s a like it or hate it thing.  Then you see the stuff like the X-Men shoujo which we will just pretend didn’t happen.  My problem also arrises from the fact that now is a great time for graphic novels.  There is a huge influx of talented artists and writers releasing some of the most phenomenal independent non-superhero books.  I could see a variation in that style working.  So why take the manga route unless they are just trying to cater to their dedicated fangirl fanbase.  They should see this as an opportunity to maybe try and get other people interested, but perhaps it’s too late for that.  Perhaps it won’t be so bad though.  Let’s just throw up the image before I throw up from thinking about it.

Mayday mayday! Optimism crashing rapidly!

Well I guess they will definitely have their demographic audience.  Not only is it in the prettiest manga format they can get, but it also looks like something that crawled out of the darkest fangirl depths of Deviant Art.  Well I’m sure it’ll still make a butt-load of money and replace another shelf of graphic novels with more manga.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of anime/manga, but I haven’t seen a decent selection of graphic novels in a non-specialty book store since the great boom.  The next issue of Entertainment Weekly will have more images of finished character designs.  They are going more for recreating the imagery described from the books and trying to be more true to that as opposed to recreating the feel/look of the film.

Sound off B!K!: Am I being too critical? Any fans of Twilight out there?  Given the choice would you like novels in graphic novel or manga format?