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CLOVER 3 & 4, by CLAMP. Covers amazingly intact. The rest of a beautiful, meditative series in a strange cyberpunkish world which I didn't review here because Melymbrosia already did it better.
TOKYO BABYLON 2, by CLAMP.
PLANET LADDER 1, by Yuri Harushima. Having flipped through # 6 at Ojai, I was sufficiently hooked to start yet another story about a modern schoolgirl who finds a destiny in an alternate universe.
PLEASE SAVE MY EARTH 2, by Saki Hiwatori. A girl with an affinity for plants meets two boys who share the same dreams of being scientists on a space station overlooking the Earth, and an annoying kid who wants to marry her. This promises to be a madly complex series, as it looks like the present-day characters all had relationships as their alter egos or past lives, in addition to their current (some of whom are gender-switched) identities.
PRINCE OF TENNIS 1, by Takeshi Konomi
SAIYUKI 3, by Kazuya Minekura. This is the only one I've had a chance to read so far. I'm really enjoying this series. The creator is one sick puppy who was obviously warped by reading too many doujinshi at a tender age. She includes all these pin-up drawings of her characters in modern dress, in a prison cell, what have you. They're often very sado-masochistic or bondage-y or just plain weird, like the one in # 2 of Hakkai looking scholarly in a preppy suit and holding a book labeled "Abortion." I don't think I want to know what that's about.
# 3 features Hakkai (again), wearing a crucifix necklace, all disheveled and roughed-up and tied with thorn vines and looking like he didn't necessarily have a bad time. The caption is "God, please violate me." Okay, that is SO disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which is that it's a pretty sexy picture, but I kind of feel like a perv for thinking so. Incidentally, that one actually makes sense for his character, though you don't yet know that at this point in the story.
X-DAY, by Setona Mizushiro. High school kids plan to blow up the school. I am so down with that. And I so can't believe that no guardians of public morality have made Tokyopop shrink-wrap it.
RED RIVER, by Chie Shinohara. A modern schoolgirl is swept into ancient Hattusa (the Hittites' city), where she will presumably find a destiny. I started flipping through and got hooked on the story, plus I like the Rumiko Takahashi-esque character designs.
MARS 7 & 8, by Fuyumi Soryo. Still hooked.
ALICE 19th 3, by Yu Watase. Still hooked.
IMADOKI 1, by Yu Watase. A realistic schoolgirl romance. I couldn't resist the somewhat Tamahome-esque boy who appears on page 1.
PLANETES 2 & 3, by Makoto Yukimura. Still hooked. C. J. Cherryh meets Robert A. Heinlein for ultra-realistic manga space adventures.
TOKYO BABYLON 2, by CLAMP.
PLANET LADDER 1, by Yuri Harushima. Having flipped through # 6 at Ojai, I was sufficiently hooked to start yet another story about a modern schoolgirl who finds a destiny in an alternate universe.
PLEASE SAVE MY EARTH 2, by Saki Hiwatori. A girl with an affinity for plants meets two boys who share the same dreams of being scientists on a space station overlooking the Earth, and an annoying kid who wants to marry her. This promises to be a madly complex series, as it looks like the present-day characters all had relationships as their alter egos or past lives, in addition to their current (some of whom are gender-switched) identities.
PRINCE OF TENNIS 1, by Takeshi Konomi
SAIYUKI 3, by Kazuya Minekura. This is the only one I've had a chance to read so far. I'm really enjoying this series. The creator is one sick puppy who was obviously warped by reading too many doujinshi at a tender age. She includes all these pin-up drawings of her characters in modern dress, in a prison cell, what have you. They're often very sado-masochistic or bondage-y or just plain weird, like the one in # 2 of Hakkai looking scholarly in a preppy suit and holding a book labeled "Abortion." I don't think I want to know what that's about.
# 3 features Hakkai (again), wearing a crucifix necklace, all disheveled and roughed-up and tied with thorn vines and looking like he didn't necessarily have a bad time. The caption is "God, please violate me." Okay, that is SO disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which is that it's a pretty sexy picture, but I kind of feel like a perv for thinking so. Incidentally, that one actually makes sense for his character, though you don't yet know that at this point in the story.
X-DAY, by Setona Mizushiro. High school kids plan to blow up the school. I am so down with that. And I so can't believe that no guardians of public morality have made Tokyopop shrink-wrap it.
RED RIVER, by Chie Shinohara. A modern schoolgirl is swept into ancient Hattusa (the Hittites' city), where she will presumably find a destiny. I started flipping through and got hooked on the story, plus I like the Rumiko Takahashi-esque character designs.
MARS 7 & 8, by Fuyumi Soryo. Still hooked.
ALICE 19th 3, by Yu Watase. Still hooked.
IMADOKI 1, by Yu Watase. A realistic schoolgirl romance. I couldn't resist the somewhat Tamahome-esque boy who appears on page 1.
PLANETES 2 & 3, by Makoto Yukimura. Still hooked. C. J. Cherryh meets Robert A. Heinlein for ultra-realistic manga space adventures.