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Sixteen-year-old Himeno Awayuki feels uprooted when her widowed novelist father marries a gazillionairess: she moves into a vast mansion run by her snooty stepmother and two icy stepsisters. While she's trying to cope with these changes, she meets the seven Leafe (Lee-fay) Knights, magical beings who are fighting the demon larva planted by Fenrir, the Princess of Destruction. To overcome these life-draining monsters the Knights need the Prétear, the Princess of Light whose soul can merge with each of theirs to destroy the larvae. Himeno finds herself facing classical magical girl problems: trying to overcome her natural klutziness, learning to use her latent powers, falling for gentle Sasame, quarreling with diamond-in-the-rough Hayato and befriending the other Knights. This appealing but lightweight adventure-comedy plays like a mixture of Fushigi Yugi, Blue Seed, and Cinderella. (Rated 15 and older: violence, brief nudity, alcohol use, minor profanity and risqué humor) --Charles Solomon
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