Mermaid's Gaze (Mermaid Series)

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Summary: Disturbing, don't read this one before you go to bed...
Review: I read this and my first thought was: Whoa, Takahashi wrote this?! This is a departure from her normal, light romantic comidy into something rather spooky...I enjoy all of her works and this one was no exception. Delightful and surprisingly wicked, this book kept me awake, and wanting more.

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Summary: A good book and thiller
Review: Mermaid's Gaze was a good book though it is somewhat gruesome. There is a lot of blood shed and it contains some violence(especially when they kill lost souls). Over all, it is a great book if you like the other Mermaid Series books.

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Summary: Mermaid's Gaze . . .
Review: She had made Yuta a promise to meet him in the Red Valley. If he had come, she wouldn't have died waiting for him. Now that she was resurrected by some guy who thinks he can control her, Mana struggles to keep her head on her shoulders as they struggle to the Red Valley for rescue!

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Summary: Piercing "Gaze"
Review: The third of Rumiko Takahashi's mermaid volumes is "Mermaid's Gaze." Her undying not-quite-couple Yuta and Mana return, encountering more twisted immortals and macabre problems, in the darkest and bloodiest of Takahashi's fantasy stories.

In "Mermaid's Gaze," an old woman is forced to kill a young man over and over, only to have him turn up alive every time. Yuta recognizes the man -- Shingo, a rich young psycho who died with his sister Akiko long ago. But actually, they ate mermaid's flesh with differing effects. Now Shingo is immortal, and Akiko is still alive, trapped in a living doll's body. Now Shingo is trying to find and kill his sister -- because so long as she is alive, he is pursued by a horrifying vision...

In "Mermaid's Mask," Yuta and Mana come across a little boy called Nanao who escaped from a moving car. When Nanao takes some "medicine," his scrapes instantly heal, and the immortal pair suspect that he's like them. But the real truth comes to mind when they learn that the boy's mother has kidnapped him from her own son -- and that because of the mermaid's flesh, she can tear off her own scarred face and replace it with another...

Don't expect humor and lightness in Takahashi's Mermaid Saga. There's the occasional moment of dry humor, like Mana constantly referring to Nanao as "squirt." But overall it's even more violent and gruesome than the other Mermaid stories, such as when Nanao's "mother" skins her own face, though Takahashi keeps it tastefully shadowed.

Mana and Yuta have changed a little over the course of the series -- Yuta is a little happier and less haunted, and Mana has become less clueless. They mesh well together, although they are not explored quite as much in this volume as in the previous two. And supporting characters -- like the insanely possessive mother, or the evil Shingo -- are chillingly well-drawn.

Things get nasty and bloody in the third excellent volume of Takahashi's Mermaid Saga. "Mermaid's Gaze" is a good horror-fantasy read -- just don't read it after dark.

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Summary: Greatest anime series ever!!!!!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read! Even though I've only read one, it is by far the best in the world. The way the author writes it, you never want to put it down. Inu-Yasha, I've read volume 10. There are some things I still don't understand but that goes with that I've not read them all yet. My friend, introduced these series to me and I've become infatuated with them.

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Summary: From Rumiko Takahashi's wonderful Mermaid Saga
Review: This manga is not for children under 13, if you ask me. It is violent and macabre. The stories would probably be traumatizing to a little kid. I thought they were strangely enchanting, though. (Not in a pretty fariy tale way!) This manga contains two stories; Mermaids's Gaze and Mermaid's Mask. Mermaid's Gaze was my favourite of the two. It had more plot and more purpose in action. The second, Mermaid's Mask, was good too. It was just a little more gruesome and weird, with a woman who has eatenthe flesh of a mermaid and gains a painful scar from its poison, forcing her to cut of her face and switch for others. That's kinda icky, ya know? The first story has to deal with an homicidal manic who ate the mermaid's flesh and has become immortal. But there is something he wants more than immortality; a mysteriously life-like doll! And he'll kill to get it. Both stories are, of course, staring our two favourite immortal lovers: Mana and Yuta, who risk themselves in their travels to help those affected by the poison of the mermaid's flesh. Very good artwork by Takahashi-sama and thrilling, hard-to-put down plots! Great for any manga lover or anyone willing to read something new!

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Summary: A good book and thiller
Review: This third instalment in the mermaid series is a bit shorter. I still enjoyed it, but it may not interest someone who hasn't read the others.

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Summary: If you liked the first two...
Review: This third instalment in the mermaid series is a bit shorter. I still enjoyed it, but it may not interest someone who hasn't read the others.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This was a pretty good book. I'd recomend it to anyone looking for a nice fantsy story with a little horror mixed in for good measure. However, if you don't like The Highlander television show or movies, you probbaly won't like this either. On the other hand, if you do like The Highlander, you'll probably love this.