The Holy Bible: Manga New Living Translation, Slimline Reference Edition

I bought this Bible for my young son who is too old to read out of story-book Bibles but not ready for an adult translation. I was specifically looking for a REAL Bible with the full text but with enough pictures to keep him motivated. The NLT (while not the best translation for adult study in my opinion) is perfect for his reading level, and he LOVES the comic book style in this Bible, so this is the perfect motivator to keep him interested in reading the word. I think the Manga art in this book is very well done - particularly when compared to some other attempts at "comic-book" Bibles I've seen in the past. As for complaints, my biggest problem here is that there isn't MORE of it. Now don't get me wrong - there's definitely enough illustration in here to keep a kid busy, and there's far more illustration than you're going to get out of most Bibles - but this is more manga-Bible-interspersed-within-a-real-Bible than it is a full manga of the whole Bible. I don't suppose I can blame Tyndale for not commissioning an illustration to go with every single minor Bible story (because the Bible is a very large book), but it's disappointing not to see stories like Daniel and the Lions, Jonah and the Whale, etc. Again - I don't want to be hyper-critical here, because they've done an excellent job; I just like it so much that I want to see more of it. And also: Yeshua. Evidently, whomever delivered on the Manga portion of the book is a Messianic Jew, and insists on using the the name Yeshua instead of Jesus. I don't have any particular problem with Messianic Jews using that linguistic variant on the Lord's name, but I do find it confusing that a Bible translation that uses "Jesus" throughout suddenly uses "Yeshua" in the illustrations. This is made all the more confusing by the fact that all of the other Bible characters are called by their normal anglicanized names. So... if it's confusing for me as an adult, it's definitely confusing for a small child. But if you can get past that little hiccup, this is a product that both you and your child can really enjoy.

perfect for pre-teens/teens who are into anime.

Wasn't sure what to expect having read some reviews but illustrations helped the recipient. be inspired by this breathed work!

It's cool to have some of the major stories told in comic form. It is definitely not manga though, just regular American comic format. The entire NLT bible is in here plus three (or is it four? sorry it's not beside me at the moment) sections broken down into comic form but it's odd placement since they happen in the middle of a book but contain stories from more than one book. Hard to explain what I mean here.

Very good