Rating: 
Summary: Absolutely The Best!
Review: When I went to the store to buy the third book, They had only one copy of vol. 4 and none of vol.3. So I picked up vol. 4 and I do not regret it at all. I understood what was going on most of the time and the power it brings forth is incredible. I bought the first volume because it had unique artwork and it seemed interesting. I was not wrong. The way the charachters interact with each other is phenominal and it is the most easy set of charachters to connect with.
The story moves along with such intensity and you are left with nothing but sorrow for the people and the questions it brings forth. " Is the only death the only reason of life?"," Where does a devil go when he dies?"
The only down side to the series was I was waiting for Chiaki to freak out and destroy the world or something. They say she is the savior yet all she does is cry when the one she loves suffers more than ever.
But other than that, I am glad with how the story ends, And I am looking forward to the volume I skipped.
Rating: 
Summary: Poor beginning, great story
Review: Chiaki: Aw, poor street person--let me help you.
Ororon: I'm a demon, actually. Have a wish.
Chiaki: Ok, I wish for you to be my friend and stay with me forever.
Ororon: . . . alright.
The first issue (the initial 39 pages) of this manga becomes laughable as it tries to do too much. You could call this ambitious, except there is no effort to make the rush of characters, events, and revelations plausible. Rather than a strong beginning, Hakase Mizuki is focused on the premise being set up: the complex web of relationships between the various characters, the central relationship between Ororon and Chiaki, the tensions of opposing natures and the modern quandary of moral relativism--virtue tempered by necessity, logic versus idealism.
There's much to please about "The Demon Ororon." It is action-packed, suspenseful and violent (sometimes even gory) while remaining a strong character-based narrative. The characters are both well-delineated and nicely ambivalent long past their initial introduction. Ororon stands his ground in the face of Chiaki's perky goodness, acknowledging her influence but standing his ground, rather than losing his backbone as a wimpier anti-hero might. Shiro the cat demon is a malevolent street-brat type, brash but tempered by an appealing shy side. When Othello arrives on the scene it is difficult to make him out one way or another--going by convention, his meltingly-beautiful lynx-eyed physical design would put him in the arch-nemesis camp, while he comes off instead as ironic comic relief--but the arrival of an interesting bounty hunter named Mitsume provides him with interesting context: an evolving yaoi relationship of the (refreshingly) NON-uke/seme variety.
With a plentitude of interesting personal dynamics, a curious hybrid of Western Judeo-Christian notions of heaven and hell through an Eastern mindset, and a tone that effortlessly veers between comedy and drama, there is a little something for everyone. At the same time, the distinctive artwork has a kind of Aubrey Beardsley feel to it that at first repulses, then rather grows on the reader.
To put it in plain English, "Ororon" is yummy. Get past the first issue and you're in for a treat.
Rating:
Summary: A Very enjoyable read!
Review: Hey'a Blaze here!Wow, what to say about this book? I'm still waiting Anxiously for the second installment! ^-^ The story is the basic: Girl finds Guy, Guy goes home with Girl, Guy 'wants' girl, girl.... is a little freaked out. ^-^ Whats kind of wierd for me is that some of the Manga I borrowed from friendsis about the girl who goes to live with the guy, and turns out to be an angel or something and promises to protect him. (I'm not saying anything is wrong with this, it seems that there's just too many G. Novels'out there' starting out like this and I long for a book to start with it's own orginality.)anywayz, back to TDO ^-^, The story has a little of it's own originality; This time, it's the guy who moves in, makes the moves, wears a bounty on his head... and is a demon. (not giving away any suprises). The thing I like is the emotions these characters are given. No doubt Ororon shows interest in Chiaki (the girl), but its the way he expresses it.... he doesn't; Like 'cold emotion'. and this is the freaky part about him. It's like yelling your head off at someone and having them staring lustfully at you with a soft smile.For one thing, There are a lot of 'around the corner' suprises that keeps the story moving along with jaw-dropping moments and its hard to put the book down. However, the Art is a little shaky and can use some improvement and at first glance seems to be a bit plain. But if you can get over this (With me usually picking Art over story, it took some work to get use to. ~-^) it is overall a Book to get into. By the time you get past the first 10 pages, the art will just stick to you and obviously creates some kind of fonding for you over the stereotype of other Manga. It has it's own style, and besides, who wants to see every Manga with the same style of art? Originality is good indeed ^-^d and very refreshing, I recommend this title to all Manga and anime Lovers! I hope this helped. enjoy! ~*Blaze*~
Guardian of the Wolves
Rating:
Summary: A Very enjoyable read!
Review: Hey'a Blaze here! Wow, what to say about this book? I'm still waiting Anxiously for the second installment! ^-^ The story is the basic: Girl finds Guy, Guy goes home with Girl, Guy 'wants' girl, girl.... is a little freaked out. ^-^ Whats kind of wierd for me is that some of the Manga I borrowed from friendsis about the girl who goes to live with the guy, and turns out to be an angel or something and promises to protect him. (I'm not saying anything is wrong with this, it seems that there's just too many G. Novels'out there' starting out like this and I long for a book to start with it's own orginality.)anywayz, back to TDO ^-^, The story has a little of it's own originality; This time, it's the guy who moves in, makes the moves, wears a bounty on his head... and is a demon. (not giving away any suprises). The thing I like is the emotions these characters are given. No doubt Ororon shows interest in Chiaki (the girl), but its the way he expresses it.... he doesn't; Like 'cold emotion'. and this is the freaky part about him. It's like yelling your head off at someone and having them staring lustfully at you with a soft smile.For one thing, There are a lot of 'around the corner' suprises that keeps the story moving along with jaw-dropping moments and its hard to put the book down. However, the Art is a little shaky and can use some improvement and at first glance seems to be a bit plain. But if you can get over this (With me usually picking Art over story, it took some work to get use to. ~-^) it is overall a Book to get into. By the time you get past the first 10 pages, the art will just stick to you and obviously creates some kind of fonding for you over the stereotype of other Manga. It has it's own style, and besides, who wants to see every Manga with the same style of art? Originality is good indeed ^-^d and very refreshing, I recommend this title to all Manga and anime Lovers! I hope this helped. enjoy! ~*Blaze*~
Guardian of the Wolves
Rating:
Summary: Interesting only one applicable adjective...
Review: I completely agree with another reviewer-this book is not just for Goths. The story is unique(come on, did YOU ever imagine Satan has some hot-looking dude?) and some of the thoughts it provokes can be a bit heavy, but in the end the manga just makes for a refreshing read. I have to admit that the art through me off at first. I'm used to the art of Yu Watase (who is awesome, by the by) and the elongated body parts were a bit of a shock. No worries, though. The more you read, the more the art seems to fit the characters more appropriately than conventional proportions. The characters are likeable, the story is good, and I can personally garuntee that at least the first three volumes are worth reading over and over again.
Rating: 
Summary: Fiendishly Good!
Review: I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed The Demon Ororon. First, although the art may not be to everyone's taste, I found the exaggeration of perspective and elongation of the character's bodies to be visually interesting and well-used to help tell the story. My biggest complaint is that the guys all look the same. In my mind at least the lead - Ororon - should stand out from the pack. Still, you get used to style and can usually manage to distinguish between them all eventually. For the most part the drawings are clean and uncluttered although towards the end the fighting scenes required a few minutes to sort out whose body parts are whose. Did I mention the body parts? Certainly not the most horrifying things I've ever seen but there are bitten off fingers, dangling intestines and plenty of blood so consider this fair warning. My only other complaint was with the editing. Really sloppy, with plenty of typos plus some of the fonts used are hard to read. But how's the story you ask? If you're Chiaki, you're a rather strange, lonely girl who attracts all the wrong sorts of people consisting of spirits and ghouls, while your friends and family abandon you. Imagine you come across a beautiful, bleeding young man and simply out of the goodness of your character, you offer to help. What might you get in return? This is the set up to the very engaging story of The Demon Ororon. For Chiaki, she acquires a demon, but not just any demon. He's the good-looking, cynical, sharp-dressing, chain-smoking Demon King of Hell. And he's having a rather rough time. Being a king sucks especially when you have a bounty on your head, you family hates you, and your friends try to murder you. What do you do? For saving his life, Ororon grants Chiaki one wish and she decides she wants him to stay with her forever. With this one simple act, these two alienated souls are about to form an unlikely and forbidden relationship that will be complicated by many factors, the least of which is that Chiaki is a terrible cook. While their origins seem the most likely to rip them apart - after all, he's demon royalty and she's the forbidden result of a human/archangel coupling, it is their personal philosophies that will be the true test of their devotion. But before their idyllic life can really get started, the bounty-hunters, angels and ghouls converge, chasing after both Chiaki and Ororon, wanting nothing less than their deaths. Chiaki considers herself to be a good person who never would kill and certainly doesn't believe that Ororon should, yet he freely acknowledges his killer ways, but defends it as a necessary act. If they are going to kill you, can't you fight back to save yourself? This question, whether it's right or wrong to kill and what exactly does it mean to be 'good' or 'evil' drive the plot of the story. Can two such diametrically opposed people stay together, or will their world-views rip them apart? This first book sets up the characters and a little of their back story before flying forward into confrontation and conflict. I really liked that this will be a fast moving story since it's only a 4 book series. On the other hand, I am enjoying the characters so much, and the questions they represent are so complicated, that I am a little concerned that they can be successfully concluded in such a short work. Nevertheless, The Demon Ororon is proving to be a promising series with unique art and a meaty story filled with complicated, engaging characters.
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Summary: A change of pace from what I generally read...
Review: Most of the time, I read TONS of shoujo. I'm a regular shoujo maniac. I read liscenced and unliscenced manga, so I've read a good variety(and not just shoujo). So, what drove me to by 'Demon Ororon"? Well, I was looking for something a bit different than what I normally read. You know, if you read the same thing over and over, you are gonna want something new!!! So 'Demon Ororon', isn't necassarily entirely original, but it is certainly interesting, and the art makes it toally different. I was a little off-set by the artwork at first because the chins are so long. The drawing style is very unique, but I have come to appreciate it, it fits the dark story-line. So the story itself sounds somewhat typical I guess: A girl(Chiaki) takes in a man from the side of the road because he is badly injured and she wants to help him. But he turns out not being a man, but the King of Demons, of course this sounds obsurd to her, but he says he will grant her one wish, she wishes that he would stay by her side forever, and so he will. Soon you find out that Chiaki is very alone, and that is because she has never known her parents, her grandfather whom she lived with died, and her other relatives(you only see them briefly) are nothing but greedy heartless jerks who want the money that Chiaki inherited from her grandfather. So she is quite alone. You also find out that her parents were Michael and Archangel and a woman. So Chiaki was unaware of this, but she knows that she is different and has stopped going to school or out much because she attracts "strange people". Of course there is A LOT more I cannot explain or it would ruin it for you, but I wanted to give everyone a basic idea of it. There is a fair amount of violence and not really romance, but a deep emotional relationship between Chiaki and Ororon. If I have one complaint, just like that other review, it is the poor editing.! Couldn't they have done a better job here? I mean this is a major company, I have come to expect better from Tokyopop.! Anyways, if you're looking for a dark story that has some horror elements and is not a load of rubbish, I suggest picking up Ororon. Its worth getting used to the unique art style for. God Bless & *enjoy* (...)
Rating:
Summary: Style, wit... and good art!
Review: The art is very nice in this one. Stylish, clean, not crowded. Very little of the cutesy silly cartoon stuff you see in other Manga. The story is about growth and change... or maybe it's redemption and damnation... or maybe it's about being in love... or about values and survival... Or all that and more. It's very well done. I like when emotion is conveyed through action instead of long description; this does that. Definitely getting more when they come out. Oh, what it's about? A demon King meets a half-angel. She's living by herself when she finds him bleeding on the sidewalk, and she asks him to stay. He's not a nice person. She is. It gets complicated really fast - Aparently angel meat is tasty, and angel spawn are hunted and killed by full angels, and the demon's family may not approve of him being king, and then there's his maid (the half-angel can't cook very well.) And the cat-boy who argues with the half-angel's best friend. Did I mention the Bogey Monsters? Or the ghosts, and the bounty hunter? No? Oh. Sorry. There you go. Anyways, in the begining it's very spare and clean and surreal; the images are haunting. Then, towards the end, it gets a titch cluttered and confusing, but it's still good.
Rating:
Summary: I like
Review: The first volumn is long. Good relationship between the two main characters. I enjoy the humors. The drawing is ugly though, but I like it so much I don't really care. It not as good as some other manga I have read. so far I have finished the first 3 volumn. This one is the best. As the story continue, it becomes less interesting ( t least for me). I don't even know if Ororon is evil or not (he should be but the story portray as a heroin). The humor less effective in subsequent volumn (same joke). The romance seem hopeless. It alright, but I prefer petshop of horrors better.
Rating:
Summary: Angels and Devils
Review: This is one of my absolute favorite mangas out there.
The simplistic art is very deceiving. You come in expecting a typical 'Romeo and Juliet' style story and instead come away with a story filled with philosophical questions, a touch of humor, and characters who you learn to love that have to live in a terrible situation.
In the whole story the question is why. Why are demons considered evil? Why are angels considered good? Why do people have to die? Why hasn't anyone heard from God in years? Why can't people just live together happily? Why are people so alone?
The first volume is deceptive and lulls you in. It is filled with everyday shots, not yet dealing with the harshness that this group, this new family, faces. You are given shots of the characters relating to each other. The innocent pacifist Chiaki, who is enamored with the cool and moody demon Ororon, the cat monster brothers Shiro and Kuro, Chiaki's only human friend Lika, the maid Ms. Lucy, and Ororon's fancy-boy older brother Othello.
However good things can't last forever, and foreshadowing of a later conflict appears early on first when demons come after Chiaki and then later when angels come after Chiaki and Shiro.
This manga makes you think. You come away from it questioning whether or not what you consider good and evil really are as you think they are. In fact the last two volumes even leave you wondering if you knew some of the characters at all, especially Othello and Shiro.
Personally I think the art is beautiful. All the figures are very stylized.
A warning though, this series does become very tragic and violent later on.
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