

Keiichi Koike
Ultra Heaven (ウルトラヘヴン), Vol. 1 (2002)
Published by Enterbrain
Originally serialized in Comic Beam manga magazine
When Koike presents a page in tiers, we get something close to cinematic, but while the camera moves around a room to show its subject, with enough continuity to suggest a perspective moving, there is still enough variation present to show he is not just imitating filmic techniques, panning around the room, but is shifting the vertical axis of his vantage point at the same time. This, too, is subject-matter-appropriate: Highs need to be shown as also being lows, depending on shifts in perspective.
—Brian Nicholson, Ultra Heaven Volume 1 review, in The Comics Jurnal