I really like this style of storytelling. The illustrations are very well done. I think what I like most about this though, is the voice-overs. Some of the names in the Mahabharata are pretty difficult to pronounce and hearing someone say them properly helped to clear the confusion up in my head.
The perspective of the story is definitely different from Narayan's. The Pandavas are treated even more like perfect heroes in this version (so far). Narayan treated them more like humans taking time to talk about mistakes they made, but this version looks at them more as gods and focuses much more on the mistakes of the kauravas.
I don't remember Bhima talking to his snake king grandfather at the bottom of a lake in the other story, but a lot happened, so maybe I just forgot. Either way, it's just awesome. I don't have anything else to say. The idea itself is just awesome.
It got really, really dark towards the end of this part. Ekalavya becomes the greatest archer and is forced to cut off his thumb. This was just to please a young boy who was mad because someone was a better archer than him. It seemed out of character for drona, but then again, he does jump back and forth between being very peaceful and very vengeful quite a lot.
I also just realized that Yudhishthira is basically old school superman. He embodies truth, justice, and... okay maybe not exactly, but it's a good simile.
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