Text and Dialogue:
Narration- The Narration in Pinocchio and Naruto are similar. They both are a computer font and are not hand written. Pinocchio’s letters look more angled and sometimes both books narration is bold faced or has bigger letter.
Balloons- The balloons in Pinocchio are more the normal dialogue shaped balloons with the hook at the end leading to the person who said it. While Naruto does have this, it also has different shaped balloons. Not all of them are the normal circles. Some are more square and some do not have the hook to the person that said it.
Captions- I did not remember any captions in Pinocchio. I think for the most part it is dialogue. I did find some captions in Naruto. One time Cursed Fox…Naruto! showed up in a panel without a balloon. I would consider that a caption. There were also other times where words were prefacing the scene.
Emanata- Naruto seemed to have more emanata’s. They used it by putting the lightbulb above some of the characters heads with symbols inside of them. A lot of the time it was exclamation marks. Pinocchio tends to have more dialogue and I didn’t notice any emanata’s.
Labels/Signs- Both of the texts have labels and signs. In Pinocchio there is a sign for the carpentry shop. It is a nice neat bold sign that looks professional. Naruto has what looks to be different chapters inside of it. There are labels for the different chapters. Pinocchio doesn’t have different chapters inside of the text.
Lettering- Pinocchio has more pencil like writing. It is basically a slim font, although it does have some block letters too. Sound effects seemed to have a different font. They were larger and bolder, to catch the reader’s attention. At times they even followed a different shape and didn’t read straight across. Naruto also had a more pencil like font for inside the balloons. The sound effects were a larger font. At times it took up the whole page. The letters would also form different shapes as to be shooting off or showing the word they were telling. So for example the word shoot would look like it was bursting upward. There were a lot of comparisons in the lettering in both of the books.
Sound Effects- I kind have incorporated this into the lettering category. You were very aware of the sound effects in both of the books. When I look at a page, I see the sound effects right away because of how big and unique the letters look. The emphasis is really drawn to what the word means and it seems to make an even larger impact in Naruto.
Visual Features:
Characters-The characters of graphic novels always look the same to me. When I picture a graphic novel in my mind, I see that square face with sunken eyes and skinny box like body. This holds true for Pinocchio. He has a face that is square and eyes that make him look like he’s been punched in the face. Naruto’s characters don’t have quite as square of a face. The characters chins do come to a point. The faces seem more oval to me. The characters in Naruto remind me of the show “Pokémon”. The eyes of some of the characters look a little possessed or like they are going crazy. The lower half of their body looks normal.
Objects- The objects in Naruto seemed life-like. There was a clock in one of the scenes and it had 3, 6, 9 and 12 all in the correct places. In one scene from Pinocchio it had him in a bed with a nightstand beside with a candle on top of it. Everything looked real like a normal person could be living in that bedroom.
Icons-I could not find any icons in Pinocchio or Naruto. I thought Pinocchio might have some since it’s based off of the original version of Pinocchio, but I could not find any. Both books seemed to have a lot of objects, but no icons that I could find.
Scenery- Pinocchio’s scenery seemed to be more simple and straight lined. Both books are gray scaled, but Pinocchio seemed to have less going on it. The scenes are not as detailed and showy. The pages seem to focus more on Pinocchio and his struggles. Naruto seemed to have a lot going on in the scenes. When I glance at a page of it beside Pinocchio, Naruto has more shapes and grass and rocks visible. Not only does it show the characters, but it shows where they are in detail.
Depicted Action:
General Layout and Design- Pinocchio was read like a regular novel from left to right, front to back. Naruto was read from right to left, back to front. Naruto seemed more like a comic book to me. It could have been just the time of material this particular book was printed on, but it was a rougher material, whereas Pinocchio was on smooth shiny paper.
Borders-I couldn’t find borders in either book. They were mostly just panels and gutters.
Gutters-There are lots of gutters in Pinocchio. Most of the gutters are just white space between the panels. Naruto has a lot of gutters too. They too are made up of white space. I could not find any with any designs.
Panels- Both texts have panels. They both have large and small panels. Some are made of straight lines and others are diagonal.
Open Panel- I found a few open panels in Naruto. Most were large pictures of a character’s face or body. There were also some in Pinocchio at the beginning of the text. The larger the icon or character the better chance that the panel was open it seemed.
Splash- There were a couple splashes in Naruto and Pinocchio. Naruto had a guy getting attacked by girls that took up the top of both pages. In Pinocchio it was at the beginning. One scene had Pinocchio walking down the street and a monster appeared behind him. The scene took up two pages.
Angles and Frames:
Bleed- There was bleeds in Pinocchio. Pinocchio himself would extend across the page, and there was the scene where the monster was behind him.
Rather than going through every shot: close-up, head shot, head-shoulder shot, full-figure shot, longshot, extreme longshot, and reverse I decided to just write a paragraph on them all. Both texts incorporate all of the shots. These novels are graphic novels, so you are going to have a variety of scenes. Naruto probably had more of these shots because it was twice as long as Pinocchio. Regardless, they both had scenes of the characters up close, far away, walking with their backs toward us and just a normal image.
Rhetorical techniques:
Exaggeration- They both seem exaggerated. Obviously Pinocchio is not going to come alive and go kill people and Naruto seemed more realistic in some ways. It was more a person fighting off bad people or ninja’s, but it was exaggerated too especially with the exclamation marks that were in the balloons.
Empathy/identification- I think Naruto was easier to identify with. The story seemed more realistic and that it could happen to a human. Pinocchio was harder to identify because he was like a doll that came to life and was trying to kill off the bad guys to find his father.
Mood/tone- Pinocchio seemed a lot darker and deeper than Naruto. The pages seem a darker shade of black and the characters faces seem angrier. Naruto is happier because he’s just a kid and fighting. The pages aren’t as black and he seems like he is joking around a lot.
Simplicity/complexity- Pinocchio was easier for me to understand. The storyline was simple and the book was about a fourth of Naruto. So, Naruto was harder for me to understand. There was a lot going on and the book was like split into chapters, which helped, but it also was read from right to left, which was confusing. There was a ton more characters in Naruto, so it took longer to separate the storyline.
Irony/satire- It was ironic to me that a doll became a vampire in a sense and was killing off people, but wanted to find his father. When he does find him, he ends up killing him.
Realism/icons/symbolism- As I said earlier, Naruto seems more realistic. It’s not like he’s a doll coming back to life. They both have symbolism in them. As anyone who knows the Pinocchio story knows that his nose is symbolic of his lies and Naruto has power based on his headband.
Order/disorder- Pinocchio was an easy read. I sat down and read it within an hour. It flowed like a normal novel would. Naruto was confusing. You had to read it right to left and there was so much going on and so many people that it took a lot longer than Pinocchio.
Juxtaposition- They both are novels about fighting. It’s in a different sense though because Pinocchio comes back to life and fights to find his father, where Naruto goes around fighting random people. Naruto doesn’t seem as intense as Pinocchio.
Relationships- Pinocchio is trying to rekindle his relationship with his father. He has relationships with people on trying to fight the bad guys. Naruto has relationships with a lot of people in his training and his instructors.
Point of view- Pinocchio is mostly told from his perspective. Occasionally, you would see someone else’s perspective if they thought he was lying. Naruto is told in his perspective and from the people his is fighting with and fighting against.
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