There are a variety of moments that pop out to me in this volume, but I think a good example would be in the third story between the Dragon professor and his student. Nagabe has the ability to pull out these significant moments and through the use of panel design, white space, value, and detail create a sense of weight behind them. What I mean by weight is in essence assigning significance to certain moments. What I love about Nagabe’s style of creating manga is their ability to create pages full of weight. It also helps that all the characters are some form of animal or mythical beast, drawn in a way that showcases Nagabe’s unique style and brings out the animal’s most interesting characteristics. They did away with the heavy, dark values, and use more white space and lighter tones to create a more cheery and interesting atmosphere. Wize Wize Beasts has much of the same style that reminds me of fairy tale illustrations, but doesn’t have the same heavy feel as her last series. It’s what I loved about the series, and so I was really excited to see that they had come out with something new. Nagabe’s style was reminiscent of old-style fairy tale illustrations with a lot of dark values and a focus on form rather than detail when it came to the characters. The Girl from the Other Side stood out to me as entirely different in style from many of the common manga you see on the shelves. The volume was picked up for English language distribution by Seven Seas Entertainment. There are not only the unlikely pairs of animals but also every kind of pair character-type wise as well. Each of the eight stories within this volume follows a different pair of lovers at this school, sometimes combining the most unlikely animals and creatures together. Wize Wize Beasts (as I’ll be referring to it from now on) is a compilation of stories set in the Wizdom’s School of Wizarding, a school for beasts of all types to come study and learn all sorts of magic and different kinds of knowledge. Wize Wize Beasts is definitely different from what I usually read, but I wound up liking it a lot more than I thought in the end. Her style of art is truly unique among mangaka and I was looking forward to something different I could sink my teeth into. When it was first announced, I wasn’t quite sure what to think, but I’ve been a major fan of Nagabe and The Girl from the Other Side since volume one, following it almost religiously. It’s a single volume work that combines a multitude of stories that all take place in one universe populated by anthropomorphic animals studying magic.
The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms is a manga written and created by Nagabe who you may know as the creator behind The Girl from the Other Side. Do you like furries? Harry Potter? Boys Love? Then boy do I have the manga for you.
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