These life-size figures, as flat as cutouts, sporting jewel-encrusted armor and dense black beards, represent the art of the book writ large, with both its conceptual extravagance and its formal fastidiousness intact . ( The first American exhibition devoted to Qajar work, incidentally, will be organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art next year .)
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Comixology's Jason Thompson was less impressed, heavily criticizing the art of the book, referring to it as the " most basic kind of manga shorthand awkward geometric faces with big eyes, big hair, exaggerated expressions " with " blandly attractive " main characters, " dorky caricatures " of old RPG characters used for the villains, and crudely drawn backgrounds.
