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Summary: Cheeky Angel Volum 1
Review: All I have to say is this, after reading this book all I have to say is this if you have read Ranma 1/2 Futuba kun change you are going to love this Manga series. i'm going to say one more thing, why can't we prouduce works like this here it makes me wonder, my hats off to the author of this series this is one that should be animated.
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Summary: The best boy-becomes-girl story ever.
Review: First of all, I haven't actually read the book yet; this review is based on the anime adaption of the same story. (Do NOT look for the anime, as it's not been released in America, at least not yet. I saw an imported fansubbed video tape.) Those of you who've read amazon's description already know the story, but let me give you a little more complete version: Megumi is a nine-year-old boy who has quite a talent and love for fighting. One day while hanging out with his gal pal Miki he saves a strange man in robes from a gang of hoodlums. As thanks the man gives Megumi a magic book, then mysteriously disapears. Megumi opens the book and a tiny little genie appears and offers to grant him just one wish. Megumi wishes to become the manliest man on Earth, but the stupid genie somehow misunderstands and thinks Megumi wants to be the womanliest woman. So the genie transforms Megumi into a girl. Worse, after this has happened, the genie says that once a wish has been granted, it can't be reversed. (Never mind that it isn't what Megumi wished for at all.) Outraged, Megumi throws the book in the river, then returns to his home with Miki and tells his mother what happened. But it turns out that everyone he ever knew now all think he was always a girl, and all evidence to the contrary has been altered. The only person who remembers he was once a boy is Miki, because she was with him when it happened. Six years later, fifteen-year-old Megumi is still stuck as a girl, but still wants to become a boy again, and she and Miki are now entering high school. Unfortunatly for Megumi, she has become a natural beauty, the hottest-looking girl in school, which means every guy is now pinning for her, including Genzo, tough-as-a-brick (and just as dense,) school delinquent. Add to this the fact that Miki has decided she'd rather Megumi remain a girl, and Megumi's own new-found inner femininity, (such as a love for shopping for dresses,) and her life, it seems, may never be the same. Better than RANMA 1/2 or FUTABA-KUN CHANGE, (largely because, aside from the one magical element, this story is much more down-to-Earth than those other two,) this is one manga series any anime fan should own.
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Summary: Good story marred by an awkward translation
Review: Ita Miura is a tom-boy that has been chosen to play Romeo in her school production of "Romeo and Juliet." However, the part of Juliet has been given to Makoto Amano, who is a recent transfer student. When visiting Ita's home, she learns an awful secret about Makoto that puts her in a very awkward position as she conspires with Makoto to keep it hidden.
This is a very bizarre manga, even though the themes of gender-bending are pretty well standard in shoujo. Sometimes it was hard to follow and in a couple of cases it was difficult to determine who was talking. Other problems I ran into were things like speech balloons that sounded like the second half of a sentence, but with no first half and Japanese cultural references that weren't explained.
I've read other works translated by William Flanagan (such as "Othello") and haven't had this much trouble. Without having seen the original Japanese, I can only assume some translations are a tad too literal, which makes for some very non-sensical English.
Still, the art is nice (Emura draws really pretty girls, for example), the characters are likeable and I, for one, want to see where Ita and Mokoto go from here.
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Summary: More gender confusion from Japan..
Review: Ito Miura, is tall, with short hair and nice features. And she is a tom boy. Because of that she gets a lot of male parts in the plays and she hates it, but what can she do? Nothing, but shut up and be Romeo.
Makoto Amano, a transfer student, has been selected to be Juliet and Tsugumi, a lovely, but vain female student at the school, wants the part to be close to Ito. Or maybe just because she is vain.
That sounds normal, but there's more. One of them is not a girl. The only problem I have with this manga is that I'm not sure there IS going to be a volume two, three or four. Besides that, it's funny, has great artwork and good character designs.
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