Rebound By Yuriko Nishiyama

While reading this graphic novel I became overwhelmed. Not only is each page filled with many illustrations and text, readers also have to read from right to left. This graphic novel belongs to the Manga series. Rebound is the seventh novel of the series. Readers have to read these novels in chronological order. I do not recommend this novel to children. This novel would be age appropriate for some students in high school and adults. I would not recommend reading this book to anyone. I disliked a lot of aspects about this book. This book uses swear words, derogatory language and uses negative imagery towards women. This novel is about a big high school basket ball game. In addition, one of the basketball players, Nate, goes on a date with a girl named Tomomi. This novel also seems to include “commercial” pages. In random parts of the book, pages are added in order to promote other graphic novels. One of these “commercial” pages included illustrations of half naked women in bikinis. Readers can see right through these bathing suites and actually see the female body. Not only were these girls in revealing bathing suites, they were all seductively positioned. On a positive note, this novel provided an immense amount of detail in illustrations and provided a play by play for the basketball game. The majority of this novel was about the basketball game. I did like that at the end of the game the two teams showed some good sportsmanship. Also, two boys that were on opposing rival teams discovered that they could be friends. These two boys discovered at the mall they both shared a love for Michael Jordan. Lastly, I liked that Nate was respectful to his date, Tomomi. Although I did not like Rebound, learning how to read a graphic novel was an interesting experience.