At Manga Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore draws some interesting comparisons between Sexy Voice and Robo and the work one of the defining creators of gekiga:

“Gegika chronicled the new social realities of the post-World War II industrial revolution in Japan. In particular, gegika focused on the underbelly of Japanese society that emerged as a result of Japan’s swift transformation from a rural and agrarian economic base to an urban and industrial one. By contrast, Sexy Voice and Robo’s neo-gegika explores the unseemly side of Japanese society that emerges in the wake of the computer revolution in the 1990s and 2000s. Japan is now shifting from an industrial economic base to a computerized one.”

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Brigid (MangaBlog) Alverson weighs in on Sexy Voice and Robo and finds that the ingredients don’t quite come together:

“And yet, I feel like it could be so much better. This manga has a half-baked feeling, as if Kuroda realized what a good idea he had and started running with it before he was completely ready.”

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Aside from the pleasure of seeing a bunch of people talk about a really interesting book, the Sexy Voice and Robo Manga Moveable Feast has had the happy side effect of introducing me to blogs that had previously escaped my notice. Garrett Albright of Yen Plus Info! added his thoughts on Iou Kuroda’s book and took a moment to introduce his blog:

“This is Yen Plus Info, a fan site primarily providing news and info about the Yen Plus comics anthology published by Yen Press, though lately I’ve been sharing my experiences with other comics both foreign and domestic. Why not check out the front page and browse a while?”

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The Reverse Thieves, Hisui and Narutaki, provide a tag-team review of Sexy Voice and Robo:

“It has a amazingly unique visual style and storytelling approach that sets it apart from your stereotypical manga while still retaining the greatest strengths and powers of Japanese visual story telling as well. This is a good series for anyone looking to shake up their regular manga reading habits, anyone interested in indy comics no matter where they come from, and even for people who dislike anything manga related but still are interested in graphic story telling.”

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Michelle (Soliloquy in Blue) Smith adds her thoughts to the Sexy Voice and Robo Manga Moveable Feast:

“I really admire how Kuroda-sensei tells the story, because he doesn’t feed one the conclusions about Nico’s revelation on a spoon; all the clues are there, but one must make one’s own connections.”

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Tangognat takes a second look at Sexy Voice and Robo for the Manga Moveable Feast:

“One of the things that I like about Nico is that her character is more complex than the typical precocious child you’d expect to see investigating human behavior. While she might be worldly enough to manipulate Robo in order to get help her whenever she wants, she still maintains an element of innocence and a childlike point of view.”

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Sadie Mattox at Extremely Graphic takes the Manga Moveable Feast as an opportunity to read Sexy Voice and Robo for the first time, and, well…

“I know that plots are simply arenas, places for the characters to play and oftentimes they can be silly or completely unrealistic to accommodate a much larger story. However, mysteries are reliant on plot. So having myself pulled through a series of convenient coincidences not once but every single time got a bit tiring.”

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