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Jun. 27th, 2002 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateMore manga. Chobits volume 1, CLAMP's take on the beautiful magic/alien/robot chick moves in with boy student genre. As has been pointed out elsewhere on LJ (I'm too lazy to make a link, 'cause...lazy), it's incredibly creepy, taking all the disturbing elements of this genre (e.g., the boy is a whiny bastard interested in porn, and works in a 'hospitality' club, while robogirl is eminently victimizable tabula rasa) and putting them in your face, while still being cyuuuuuuuuute as all get-out. Don't expect the lush art of Clover - this is as close to 'ordinary' art as I've seen them do. Done in Tokyopop's right-to-left format, but much more readable than most of their RTL volumes (glares at the indecipherable Dragon Knights).
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Date: 2002-06-27 09:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2002-06-27 10:45 am (UTC)I'm tempted to find a synopsis of the series somewhere to find out if I'm wasting my money.
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Date: 2002-06-27 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-06-27 10:40 am (UTC)Also, I suggest trying Paradise Kiss (also Tokoyopop). It features the usual innocent, never-been-kissed good girl of, oh, just about every single girls' manga and throws her in with a group of art students all of whom seem to have walked out of the photos in Fruits. It's surprisingly good.
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Date: 2002-06-27 10:41 am (UTC)Damn! I wish I'd know that before I sent in my Amazon order.
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Date: 2002-06-27 07:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)