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Summary: Another "home run" for CLAMP
Review: 25 words or less: A wonderful, PG13-esque series from Clamp. Appropriate for teens. Great art? check. Great story? check. Interesting characters: check. Fundies will have trouble with it (a major plot point revolves around an angel leaving heaven, and a devil forsaking hell, to be with each other). Better to substitute "yin" and "yang" for "heaven" and "hell", you'll have a better time understanding the dynamic among the characters.
Plot synopsis: A Tokyo doctor saves an angel one evening. The angel is on a mission, but she must reward the kind hearted doctor. The problem is, the good doctor doesn't want anything, and is having a hard time believing in angels in the first place! A very sweet series.
In fact, this one is so sweet, and so cunningly drawn, you won't even notice the dash of Tobasco the good Ladies of CLAMP sneak in to all that sugar and spice. You'll be impressed.
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Summary: Alas! a bishonnen becomes a bishoujo!
Review: A lovely story, with lovely CLAMPerific art. Americans no Baka desu! it is a great manga but before you buy it you should know that the translators changed Kohaku's gender to avoid a shounnen-ai (Guy on Guy) relationship that was the story's soul. as long as you change all of the shes to hes you'll love it!
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Summary: Here WISH all begins, Here's where people get addicted to it
Review: All right, you wanna read Wish? In Wish, an angel named Kohaku is attacked by a crow working for Satan's newphew. IF YOU THINK THIS IS A CRAZY COMIC I SUGGEST YOU FORGET ABOUT READING COMICS! Let's see, the angel is saved by a 28-year-old doctor. He is given a wish, but the doc, Suichuro, or something like that, refuses. Stubborn old Kohaku says she'll (angels/devils don't have genders so the creators, CLAMP, improvised) live with him intill he snaps and says he wants something. While she lives there, one thing until another happens until the house is filled with one human, an angel trainee, an angel master, the angel master's eloped husband, Satan's son, Satan's newphew Koryo, and Koryo's two cat/playgirl servants, Ruri & Hari. What a story! So wanna read it?
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Summary: good series, seriously cute
Review: Finally, after reading all the volumes that come after this one, I have gotten a chance to read the first volume. In this volume, Shuichiro finds and saves an angel stuck in a tree. The angel, Kohaku, wants to do something for Shuichiro in return, but she doesn't know what. Shuichiro doesn't know either, because he says he has everything he needs. Kohaku is determined, however, and stays with him. She's still got a job of her own to do, though: one of the angel masters is missing.
This isn't the best volume in the series, but it's still really good. Kohaku is cute, although a bit of a klutz, and the demons are still my favorite characters. I'm not a big fan of Shuichiro, since he's a bit too outwardly unemotional for my tastes, and the authors don't provide very much insight into what he's thinking. I would recommend this series to almost anyone.
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Summary: Funny, Sweet, Sad, and Pretty to Look At!
Review: First, let's get the reason this series lost a star out of the way: it has nothing to do with CLAMP, their writing, or their art. It has to do with TokyoPop. In the original manga, the characters who are angels or demons (who, despite other confused reviewers are NOT male, but NEUTER) are all referred to in the masculine. TokyoPop, however, chose to assign gender to these characters. The most obvious is their choice to refer to Kohaku as "she" in order to appeal to a wider audience than would want to read a story between two "males" (an interesting decision, from a company that is now releasing FAKE). It was an odd choice, since it's still made clear in the manga that Kohaku is without gender ("I'm not a lady!" "No, I'm not a man, either! I'm an angel"), and an irritating one. That aside! This is a wonderful, bittersweet story. It's not at all like some of CLAMP's better known series, but the clean art and concise storyline give it a leg up over, for example, the often messy and convoluted X. The story is complex without being overdramatic, romantic without making you gag, and heartwrenching without breaking your heart. The main romance is very much rated G, the only way it could be with a character as innocent as Kohaku-but it just proves that a love story doesn't need smut to be fun and entertaining. Besides, you'll find some smut in the secondary romantic couple, Satan's Son and an Arch Angel. The art is not as beautiful as X, but is easier on the brain for sequence and reading-much like Chobits. The use of angels and demons may at first concern you, but don't let it. The characters are not religious but mystical in nature. This is an involved, well crafted addition to the CLAMP legacy, off beat and interesting. All in all, I suggest WISH for any fan of manga, romance, or fantasy.
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Summary: Butchering the author's intent
Review: How many of you are sick of American companies fouling up great manga or anime? This would be an example of one of those cases. Having read the story in its original Japanese text, I was greatly annoyed to open the "100% manga" English translation, only to find that the gender of one of the main characters was completely switched in order to appease the constrictions of American society. The two main characters are MALE, and YES the story revolves around their love. I would greatly advise would-be buyers to refrain from purchasing this comic from American publishers who obviously have no regard for the artist's original intent. Instead, there are plenty of places online to find accurate translations or even scanlations. Even if this is illegal, fans wouldn't have to resort to these methods if only translating companies would have respect authors instead of butchering wonderful stories in hopes of appeasing a narrow-minded group of people. And they have the audacity to plaster "100% pure manga" on their covers!
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Summary: Wish there was some more ^_^
Review: I got all four volumes of Wish in one go at Christmas, which was a HUGE gamble, because what would I have done if I had hated it?
But, thank goodness, I could NEVER hate something so cute and with so much heart! Sure, the artwork may not be fantastic (this is Mick Nekkoi's only full manga on her own) but the story was what I wanted it for. Personally, I go for a good story, and if the artwork is good, it's an added bonus.
The story is a little weird, I'll admit, and it's kinda strange that Tokyopop-chan changed Kohaku's gender (though, what a feminie, crybaby guy s/he must have been!) But, it's still pretty and cute.
I'd recommend it anyday.
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Summary: Bad Reveiwers
Review: I LOVED this series. The big put down about this was the gender thing. Would you guys just stop and think for a minute! Kohaku being a female in this version was a wonderful adition. Kohaku being a male would be just a little too weird. If Kohaku were to be a male it would destroy Tokyopop. Think about it: A MALE angel coming down and falling in love with a MALE human. Tokyopop would lose much popularity because people would say it disgraces religion, they might go as far as to sue Tokyopop. Plus the story sounds a little sweeter: A FEMALE angel comes down and falls in love with a MALE doctor.
In closing, This is a good series. I wish I had the privelage to read the other version, but, I think if I could I would not make such a big deal about translations
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Summary: THE BEST!
Review: I prefer this over Cardcaptors and sailor moon! WAY! When i first saw the cover i knew it would it rock and i was right! I read it 3 times in one day! Its that good, really. Buy it you wont regret it!
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Summary: an awesome manga
Review: I was not aware this was originally a male-on-male manga. And Well, if they had kept it that way, I would not have read it. Just because I don't believe in that sort of stuff. You know what really annoys me, is all the people who like male-on-male stuff who think that those who don't, need to grow up. FYI, I don't need to grow up. Well I mean, obviously we will all grow up and must accept that, but why should we compromise our moral beliefs for you? All you have done is say how much I need to grow up and get with the times or whatever. I could say the same thing to you, that you need to grow up, because to be quite frank. But unlike you, I'm not going to say "Oh! You have to believe what I believe!!!" even if I think you should, I'm not going to try to force you into it by calling you immature and sex-brain, I prefer a more subtle approach. hehe But you get the point. With that put aside: I thought "Wish" was a very good Manga series. Granted I've only just started reading manga, however I had to read all 4 volumes extremely fast. It was really good. So, that's really all I have to say. The romance was done well, and I wanted to get to the next Volume at the end of each one. Its pointless giving a synopsis, with all these other synopsises. :p God Bless ~Amy
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