Also Ascot’s outfit just seemed really really familiar-I think Li in Cardcaptor Sakura may have had a similar outfit? I couldn’t place my finger on it and it bugged me a little.Īlso holy SHIT, Hikaru had balls there. Again more a style thing and I enjoyed the story itself, but some panels had a lot going on.įinal thoughts: I liked how Ascot and Gardena were essentially defeated through talking, and also Gardena’s reason for quitting being “Zagato is not paying me enough for this, also you’re pretty cool,” is goals, Gardena was best underling, you work for your money, girl. (Ex: the end of the Gardenia fight where it abruptly transitions to Emeraude and Zagato). There were also some scene cuts that seemed abrupt and I had no idea if I’d missed a page or what. Manga tends to be more about action lines and emphasizing big feels rather than placing characters in a concrete location, so when you got to big fight scenes with lots of swirls and magic, and less on details, i had to reread some sections. This also maybe because I’m on a graphic novel kick, so I’ve been reading Western ones as well as manga (or it could be a style thing) but I sometimes had a hard time figuring out what was going on. (Unless it was like that in Japanese too-I don’t know.) Whatever they used for Evil Emeraude’s speech was barely legible and just not pleasing to the eye. I got used to the font they used for magic spells and Good Emeraude’s text the font they used for Zagato’s speech looks like the one font I saw everyone use for “gothic” stuff in the early 2000s, but at least it was legible. Maybe it’s best not to think about it.Īlso, I don’t know about other translations, but I was not thrilled with some of TokyoPop’s font choices.
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The whole thing with Emeraude seeming like a little girl in the “good” form and a grown up busty lady (which seems to be a trope with the female villains in this series) in the hate-filled form is…I don’t know how to parse it, just like I don’t quite know how to parse the fact that she’s in love with Zagato, and tells the girls such in her “good” child-like form. My library and none of the nearest ones seem to have the Part 2, so this may take some time to see to it’s conclusion. It feels incomplete so I am glad it is incomplete. No time to process or feel some closure, it ends with the three girls holding each other in fear and grief because they’d literally killed Emeraude like three seconds before. Oh the big twist is that Emeraude essentially committed suicide by Magic Knight? (Admittedly it was a twist I did not expect.) And that when they did it they were sent back home to Tokyo as promised, but then it just…ends. Wikipedia tells me there’s a Part 2 I will need to get my hands on somehow, and thank God because that ending was abrupt and low key unsatisfying. I thought it was more like Sailor Moon (which it was, but with giant mecha too.)
I was not expecting giant magic robots though, that was a twist. (As a blonde, bespectacled Sagittarius with short hair, type A blood, and a serious temperament, I relate a lot to Fuu, but man oh man that initial teasing of Hikaru being being short and looking like a kid even though she was 14 was brutal, CLAMP did not need to come at me like that.) I knew a little bit about the series, in that I could recognize the three main characters on sight. (As a blonde, bespectacled Sagittarius with short hair, type A blood, and a serious temperament, I relate a lot to Fuu, but man oh man that initial teasing of Hikaru being being short and looking like a kid even though she was 14 was brutal, CLAMP did In the spirit of “I get into a fandom 20 years too late,” I read the first 3 volumes of Rayearth, as it was all I could get a hold of in my library.
In the spirit of “I get into a fandom 20 years too late,” I read the first 3 volumes of Rayearth, as it was all I could get a hold of in my library. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
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