This is a beautiful adaptation. A great story of adventure and bravery teamed with whimsical anime charm.
The pictures are stunning and bring the story to life in a way I didn't expect. This would be great for kids and teens who love adventure and great characters. It will surely keep them entertained

Thank you to NetGalley for a free digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I don’t often read manga but I thought it would be interesting to see how a story I have read before translates to Manga. I thought the drawings were well done. It was a little disjointed having a book of short stories though. It gets disruptive to have more heavy narration and then switch to heavy graphics and then suddenly be in a new story. Though the drawings were beautiful and gave life to the characters, I would prefer the entire book to be focused on just one story.

Clever with its use of artistry to lure in readers, this book was impressive. They did a good job in giving the characters and the whole scenery life.

This book is hard to rate...

I really enjoyed getting to see the origins of where the Jungle Book movie came from (and while it was vastly different, it answered some questions I had about the story- and I think a more book faithful narrative would honestly make a better movie...). And Rikki Tikki Tavi was a favorite of mine in middle school so it was fun revisiting that.

However, this is a book of short stories (as with the original book) and I don't know that it always translated well to the manga format. The stories often began with a good bit of narration and then slowly became more and more dependent on pictures to move the action along faster. Unfortunately, it was the then jarring to start another story once more heavy on narration. It made it hard to get into the stories and I often found myself skimming at the beginnings, rushing the story to pick up.

Overall though, this was a really fun read and I enjoyed it. Would recommend.

Really enjoyed reading this as a manga. It was an interesting way to read it.. I think it would be better in print version over ebook though. Over all good story and good drawings that's about it.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with an copy to read and review.

The artwork is beautiful. I am new to Manga but the overall story was very well written. I would definitely recommend to people who are just starting out reading Manga and of course The Jungle Book lovers.

Really enjoyed reading this in MANGA format. Very entertaining. A great story with excellent drawings.

A great adaptation of one of my childhood favorites. The artwork is beautiful and it is one of my favourites from Udon Entertainment so far, highly recommended and definitely check out their other works. .

Not such a fan of this manga classic as I have been of the others I've read. I think they tried to fit too much in. There are seven parts adapted into the 327 pages and some are given more focus than others. I like my manga and I wasn't that impressed by the art style in this, I think it's a personal thing but I found it far too simplistic but again this could be from trying to cram too much into one graphic novel.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

This was such a cute manga. The drawing style was really nice and the manga format worked great for the different short stories. The last story made little sense to me, though.

As a fan of the movie images we get of these stories, the book was not what I was expecting in terms of the story and writing style. I believe it was remaining true to the tone of the book which due to its age was written in a very different style. The stories did not all interest me and they were organized in a non-linear format where Mogli's age jumps around.

I think it is an important classic book that definitely deserved to be turned into manga format to attract new readers, but it did not appeal to me as much I had hoped it would.

*~.Book Analysis.~*
Just remembering that those were my impressions and opinion as a reader :)

Rating: 4 stars
Reading period: Nov. 26th, 2018
Format: ebook
Source: NetGalley – I have received this book in exchange for an honest review.
Release date: Apr. 03rd, 2017

PROS
This adaptation was simply amazing. Each chapter reflected a short story and, if I didn’t knew this came from a classic book, I’d say the story was born to be a manga! =D From all the adaptations I’ve read so far, this one is the most natural – pun not intended.

CONS
To be honest, I prefer manga art with more details and rounder lines. The Jungle Book has a shonen styled drawing and I think drawing in shoujo style are prettier. That’s the only thing that bothered me a bit, as I’m very picky with manga art.

COVER ANALYSIS
The colors and the animals’ positions are just so refreshing! This cover invites the reader for an adventure and, best of all, it delivers! Very pleasant and neat.

RECOMMENDED FOR
Manga, Comics and Classic lovers!

A visual retelling of the 7 stories found in the The Jungle Book. The first 3 are about Mowgli and are very good as is the Ricki-Ticki-Tavi story of the mongoose who is taken in by a family and he protects them from too cobras. There was a story about a white seal that felt very out of place in something called The Jungle Book. There's also a story about an elephant tamer that felt very tone deaf in today's world where domesticating elephants is frowned upon. There were another story about talking horses that made little sense. All in all worth a read if you're too lazy to read the original telling.

'The Jungle Book' from Manga Classics is 329 pages of Rudyard Kipling adapted in to manga form. If you only know the Mowgli stories from the Jungle Book, those are here and more.

The seven books of the Jungle Book are adapted here. Some get longer adaptations than others. Also included are the poems in unabridged form that accompany the stories.

Along with the Mowgli stories, there is the story of the White Seal, Toomai of the Elephants, and my favorite, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. The poems fit in to the stories where they do in the books.

The adaptation by Crystal S. Chan is spot on, per usual. This time out the art is by Julien Choy and it's a good job. At 327 pages, there is a lot here, but I enjoyed revisiting these characters.

I received a review copy of this manga from Udon Entertainment and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this manga.

I absolutely love the manga forms of classics. Thank you for providing me with a copy to read and review.

The artwork was amazing, the story was brilliant. I loved it so much!

The Jungle Book is an excellent choice for Manga. The story of a lost child raised by his jungle animal family comes alive with the fantastic drawings in this book. It is so much easier to start children on a lifetime of enjoying reading when you combine great stories with vivid illustrations.

This manga matches the book so well! I love the art and the story. Great job with the characters. I recommend this book to anyone who likes the book or movie, or who enjoys manga.

This is a neat graphic novel interpretation of the jungle book. This is a great read for a middle grade reader, that is ready to enter the gritty graphic novels. Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.

This was a very interesting read. I'd never read any of the "non-Mowgli" stories from The Jungle Book before, so that turned out to be very educational.

Not every story is equally engaging or exciting, though. The ones that stood out to me the most were "Tiger! Tiger!", "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "The White Seal". The others are mostly interesting from a historical point of view, less so entertainment-wise.

There's a certain ruthlessness to be found in these stories, that shows even in the "heroic" protagonists like Mowgli and the white seal. This is no Disney, people.

I understand why the poems were kept in the manga version, but they do tend the slow everything down, because they are far more long-winded than the dialogue used in the rest of the stories. Also, the songs are printed over the illustrations, which helps with the atmosphere, but doesn't do much to enhance reading comfort.

The drawings were very well done and go a great way towards setting the proper mood for each scene.

An original turn on the old story, this version of The Jungle Book hooks the reader with its illustrations and pace of storytelling. I have nothing to say against it, but it was my first encounter with the manga structure and style, and I'm not sure that I'd be up to the encounter again.

Even so, I would gladly recommend this publication to anyone who's a fan of manga. I find it highly praise worthy that a classic story is brought closer to the younger readers by the use of a popular medium.