PROTECTING THE DESERT HEIR

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Apr 08, 2018 (PST) | Translate to English
  いろいろあったけど
  There were a lot of things
  This review contains spoilers. 勿論 ハッピーエンド?です。最終ページのヒーロー&ヒロイン夫妻と4人の子供達(多分 長女 長男 次男 次女 と均等？です) の絵が とても素敵です☘ 但し思うことかひとつあります……他の作品にも描かれていたけど 欧米や中東では やはりLGBTには厳しい ということ。この作品も根底には これがありました。HQだから楽しめばよいのだけど ふと気になりました?

  This review contains spoilers. happy ending, of course? That's it. The hero and heroine couple on the last page and their 4 children (maybe equal to the eldest daughter, eldest son, second son, and second daughter? The picture) is very nice ☘ However, there is one thing I think... although it was drawn in other works, it is still tough on LGBT in Europe, America, and the Middle East. This was at the root of this work. It's HQ so I should enjoy it, but suddenly I'm curious?

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Feb 28, 2017 (PST) | Translate to English
  見目麗しい砂漠の国の国王 弟の彼女を娶る
  The handsome king of Desert Country marries his younger brother's girlfriend
  星合先生の描かれる男性に会いに来ました。いつもより目がパッチリ、縦にも横にも少々大きめ。本当は、先生の描かれる女性も好きなのです。バービー人形もかくやと思わせる、愛らしさと品のある美しさ。どの作品も美男美女。映像メディアだと女優俳優が汚れ役演ってもやっぱり綺麗、というのと同じで、HQも、常にキレーどころ揃うのはアリだと思う。漫画というものは、ストーリーも絵もセリフもモノローグも、コマ一つ一つの切り取りどころもカメラアイのアングルも、全ての要素のバランスが要求されるトータルな創造力の産物と思ってます。しかも日本のコミックは基本フルカラーではなく白黒二色刷の制約を受けて表現される、読者に投げ掛ける想像の遊びの部分も多い、究極の二次元エンタメ。私はとりわけ、美的センス重視。星合先生の描く人物は表情豊かな方ではありません。けれども、ゴージャスなのも、ドタバタなのも(このストーリーには笑いをとるシーンはない)描いておられ、かなりザ・HQしていて、一度表紙をめくると、すっかり旅が出来ます。HQの中東はナンちゃって中東ですが、騙されるにしても、こうも、らしい宮殿がドンと出現、砂がどうの、というくだりがあるだけで、空間は中東っぽくなるからアラ不思議。話は体のいい拉致・逃げ場のない閉じ込めじゃないかという、「ほんとは怖い」ペルシャ湾岸某国の国家犯罪フィクション。ヒロイン当人が愛を知らず、国王である彼の優しさで人を愛するってこういうことだったの？なんてところに落ち着くため、ギリギリ結果オーライな話。 里親の非道を糺す、はるばる中東まで、そんなところでボロ出すか？という、疑いも無いわけではないですが、ヒロインのこれ迄の不幸を、彼の愛だけで良しとせず、キッチリ復讐してくれたのは、ストーリーの非主流ながら何だか良かったです。考えてみれば、「砂の檻」よりも、社会的に温かさを期待されてた養育家庭の方が里子たちにとっては一種のとんでもない「檻」。それを、彼が代わってこれ以上犠牲になる子が発生しないように、未来の子供たちを地獄から解放させたことの方が、功績として立派です。彼の顔ズームアップ数コマで小さな眼福。彼がやっと本心をヒロインに語る終盤数頁を、自分に語りかけている気分で読ませてもらいました。ヒロインの身体の線の崩れがありませんか？。追記「砂の炎」対比

  I came to see the man drawn by Hoshiai-sensei. My eyes are fuller than usual, and slightly larger both vertically and horizontally. Actually, I also like the woman the teacher portrays. The loveliness and elegant beauty of Barbie dolls make you think they are also muddy. Every work is beautiful men and women. When it comes to video media, it's the same as saying that actresses and actors are still beautiful even when they play dirty roles, and I think it's always good to have beautiful places in HQ. I think comics are a product of total creativity that requires a balance of all elements, such as the story, pictures, dialogue, monologue, cutting point of each frame, and camera eye angles. Moreover, Japanese comics are basically not full color, but are expressed under the restrictions of black and white two-color printing, and there are many parts of imaginative play thrown at readers, making it the ultimate two-dimensional entertainment. Above all, I place importance on aesthetic sense. The characters Hoshiai-sensei draws are not expressive. However, it's both gorgeous and slapstick (there are no laughing scenes in this story), and it's pretty HQ, and once you flip through the cover, you can completely travel. HQ's Middle East is called the Middle East, but even if you're fooled, a palace that seems to pop up suddenly, and there's just a story about how the sand is, and the space looks like the Middle East, so it's strange. The story is a “really scary” national crime fiction of a certain Persian Gulf country, about abductions in good health and confinement with no place to escape. Is this how the heroine herself doesn't know love and loves people with his kindness as king? It was a story where the results were right at the last minute in order to settle down. Do they go all the way to the Middle East, where they insult foster parenting? There's no doubt about it, but it's kind of nice that the heroine's misfortunes up until now were completely avenged by his love alone, even though it wasn't mainstream in the story. If you think about it, a foster family where social warmth was expected rather than a “sand cage,” is a kind of ridiculous “cage” for foster children. The fact that he freed future children from hell so that no more children would be sacrificed in his place is a commendable achievement. His face zoomed up a few frames and his eyes were small. I read the last few pages where he finally talks about his true feelings to the heroine, as if he were talking to myself. Isn't the heroine's body line broken? Postscript “Sand Fire” contrast

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Feb 25, 2017 (PST) | Translate to English
  ラストがスッキリ
  The last one is refreshing
  ハーレによくでてくる傲慢ヒーローと思いきや、実はとっても優しいヒーローでした。最後は、正義の味方みたいに悪者をやっつけてくれて、かっこよすぎかも♡幸せいっぱいのラストもよかったです。

  I thought he was an arrogant hero who often appears in Harley, but he was actually a very kind hero. At the end, they beat the bad guys like they were on the side of justice, and maybe that was too cool ♡ The last one full of happiness was also nice.

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