Many comic artist of Japanese inspired ballet, one of them is Megumi Mizusawa with her comic titled “Toe Shoes” and Kyoko Ariyoshi with her comic titled “Swan Act II”.
Let’s we start discuss the comic “Toe Shoes” by Megumi Mizusawa. Toe Shoes are commonly used name of the ballerina’s shoes to dance ballet. Toe Shoes tells how the strunggle of a young girl named Kurumi Morino.
Formerly she was a girl who doesn’t like ballet, but after watching ballet performance with her close friend whose taking ballet lesson, she was impressed with the dance and want to be a prima ballerina.
Starting from Toe Shoes 1-5, all the books tells all about Kurumi’s world and of course, her favorite things :: ballet. She is a strong girl, and cheerful. Till at last she reached what she wants. Megumi Mizusawa also slipped her variety experiences when she following the adult ballet class..
Kyoko Ariyoshi have the same idea with Megumi Mizusawa. Kyoko Ariyoshi also recounts the strunggle of a girl named Maia kleist to achieve her goal become a famous ballerina.
But, the difference, if Kurumi was the daughter of parents who no have background in ballet, Maia Kleist has a pair of parents which is a famous ballet dancer.
Maia Kleist is a humble and beautiful girl, have a ballet tallent inherited from her parents
I really like the picture of Kyoko Ariyoshi , the picture is very nice and can’t get bored when we want to read it again..
Both comic are suitable to read by the dancers, especially ballet dancers who feel hopeless or less enthusiasm to fight in ballet.
