davemerrill

In some fashion familiar to me, including how I can’t think back to a resonant moment of discovery but have to resort to saying “one way or another,” I became aware of a manga now available called Red River. The thick “three-in-one” omnibus volumes might have been obvious enough in the bookstore with their red spines. At a certain point I happened on a brief explanation of it as a “thrown into the past” shojo manga that had begun in the mid-1990s. While some past concerns that I’d been running low on manga to read with new titles not catching my attention have faded, perhaps the sense of an older manga that wasn’t “long familiar” amused me and had me thinking this was a chance to broaden my outlook, if only by a tiny bit. I went and bought the first collection.
( Plunging back )

So far as starting with a title and not much else goes, I was ready to suppose “Third from the Sun” meant The Twilight Zone was getting back to science fiction. Perhaps I didn’t think too much about certain criticisms that science fiction can (or “should”) involve more subtle subjects than “space travel,” but I might have just been trying not to speculate too much, conscious of the apparent risk in “finding fault with a story just for not being what you thought would be a good idea.” (I suppose, though, that I had a thought or two of a title from a few decades later that added one word to shape a less serious mood...)
( Surprises in store )