Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-27659575-20171102233127/@comment-27659575-20171219231710

There's a neat page in the latest chapter which is nice to look at. The one where Tsurugi confronts his father. We first get a panel where a speech bubble comes from an unseen place. The reading naturally leads to the circle panel indicating the brief moment Jobin turns his eyes to look at who's talking (another example of why Araki is a really visual kind of guy and really likes mystery because in reality, Jobin should have recognized Tsurugi immediately); and then a silent medium shot of the two, Tsurugi half emerging from the background, with a single exclamation mark to underline the surprise, lol even the dog looks surprised.

I'd like to know if anyone has seen the same kind of really small panel in other works. This is one of the signatures of Araki's work on the internal pacing of a chapter, using size to indicate briefness, and then using a lot of space to make the kind of panel he likes, a sort of instantaneous shot where Tsurugi is entering the room and thus the scene, still half hidden, and Jobin's fleeting surprise. Any other vanilla comic would have not focused on that moment and go from Tsurugi's voice to a panel where Jobin turns his head and talks to Tsurugi.