Manga Review: Heaven’s Will

 By: Aliraluna

Story and art by: Satoru Takamiya

Review:

 The Heaven to which you will someday return is the story of how Sudou Mikuzu, a girl with a phobia toward boys and scared of ghosts, met Seto Ashiya; a cross-dressing exorcist; and Kagari a beautiful vampire that can transform into a wolf. They all met at a famous haunted mansion that everyone knows about while trying to escape from a monster. A contract was made between Mizuku and Seto in which she will pay Seto with a cake every time he makes a ghost disappear. 

 Seto visits Mikuzu at school and she learns that she can see things that normal people can’t because she’s what’s called a Kenki and Oni is the term used referring to those creatures that nobody else could see. Days later, when Mikuzu is about to die at the hands of a monster, Seto and Kagari saved her. Much to Mikuzu’s surprise she finds out that the monster was the stalker that appeared everywhere she was- it was precisely because of this that he became a monster.  But when he was saved by Seto he explained that he wondered why he never confessed his love for Mikuzu. It was through this situation that Seto, Mukuzu and Kagari became friends and companions to exorcism the oni.

In Heaven’s Will, Mikuzu will learn why Seto Ashiya started to cross dress and how Kagari met Seto; while the three of them try to exorcise the piano of Souichirou Takayanagi, the student council president of Seiou High School.  All this adventures will happen within a week!.

Characters overview:

 Sudou Mikuzu: She has short black hair, very slim and has big, black eyes. She’s very easily scared and has the power to see ghosts and many creatures. Has a phobia toward boys. Mikuzu is able to play the piano and bake cakes. 

 Seto Ashiya: Has long beautiful blonde hair and big brownish eyes; he dresses in Lolita fashion. His weapon is a beautiful, shiny fan that holds a mystery. He’s very strong and is the master of Kagari. Loves to eat cakes and really likes maple and butter syrup.

 Kagari: Has black hair and blue icy eyes and is very tall. He’s a vampire that can transform into a wolf. Since Seto is his master he feeds from him. Kagari tends to be very quiet. His only wish can only be granted by Seto.

Thoughts:

 It’s really sad that this story is a one-volume shot. There’s a letter inside the book in which the author explains that Mikuzu will never fall in love with Seto. We will never know if Seto changed his mind nor what will happen with Kagari, nor which was the real name of ‘Seto’. What we know is that Kagari seemed more at ease and that Mikuzu would be happy if the three of them stayed together. They all worked so hard to understand each other and become closer that it really touched my heart. Oh! And the “n” in the title has a little hat.

Manga Review: Fairy Cube vol.1 Part 1

Story and art by Kaori Yuki

By Aliraluna

     It starts with a girl’s corpse lying on the street with blood all over her back in the shape of wings and a man with an eye-patch and a doll over his left arm. Then, the story goes back to Ian Hasumi who becomes the narrator telling us how he believed his mother was a fairy with green hair just like him. Rin Ishinagi is about to fight with the girls who are bullying her, but Ian intervenes and they exchange words, letting us know that they were old childhood friends, but they got separated and the last words Ian told her were “I really hate you”. Ian’s father, who is also his homeroom and Japanese teacher and a famous novelist takes him away. We see Ian’s “other” who looks just like him but with green hair and red eyes and he calls him Tokage; no one can see nor hear Tokage but him and that’s one of the reasons why everyone called him a liar. Rin was different though, by making a circle of small stones (also known as fairy rings) he could made it possible for her to see the fairies. While Ian is remembering part of the horrible story between him and Rin, he overhears some passersby talking about the “Fairy Murders” and in that instant Tokage shoves him and takes Ian’s bag leaving it on a street, the same one in which the body we first saw is in. He sees how that man with the eye-patch is standing in front of the body retrieving a cube with a butterfly in it and places it inside the talking doll. He decides to enter an antique shop and the man gives him a cube, telling him that if he throws it away he will be cursed; and while Ian is going away the doll is telling Kaito (the man with the eye-patch) that he will die young. Later on, we see the whole story when Ian sees Rin beaten again by her mother and how she remembers when they were separated the same day when they saw the fairies together. Although his father takes him back to their house and demands to see Ian’s back to reassure he doesn't have his wings (his birthmark). Of course, he doesn't have them anymore, they were burned by his own father. 

  

   The next day a girl is saying that Rin was the one who murdered her boyfriend and when Ian defends her she calls them liars, but he shows them, with Rin’s help, the fairies. Yet, when they escape his father kills Ian. Moreover he “wakes up” and sees Rin is fine and with a boy that looks just like him, who is none other but Tokage, and now he must fight to get his life and body back.