Manga Review: Fairy Cube vol. 1 Part 2 (Spoiler Alert)

Story and art by: Kaori Yuki

By: Aliraluna

    

   Tokage now possess Ian Hasumi’s body and he explains that now no one can hear nor see him. He also explains that the lizard in the cube was a fire fairy he made a deal with and thanks to that when he was killed and his soul left his body he was able to enter Ian’s body by using the lizard’s powers. Ian decides to go to the antique shop and when he was about to attack Kaito, from inside the doll came a fairy called Ainsel. In order to save the shop, Kaito removes his eye patch creating a portal, transporting them to Otherworld. Through a mirror Kaito explains that the only way to come back is to find a large tree; an Oak, an Ash or Hawthorn. In there, Ian encounters his first danger while trying to save Biki, an Urchin (a goblin that transforms into a hedgehog) from a Nuckelavee (a huge sea monster half horse, half human that eats all living creatures). Now that Biki, her family and Ian are all safe thanks to the power of Ainsel they are able to go back. When Ian arrives he makes a deal with Kaito, a Death Dealer, to use another body and Ainsel’s power to seek revenge. Ian comes back in the body of a little kid.

     While using the amulet that Kaito gave him, others won’t be able to tell he’s a winged person and so he starts to see Rin again. Rin tells him of how “Ian” has changed, he now fights and has followers. Later on, a transfer student from Hokusei middle school arrives, telling Tokage that the school needs a queen and crop circles which leads to him becoming his enemy. Another day Ian and Ainsel go look for Kaito, only to find that the antique shop is nowhere to be found and they see a strange man with one eye covered looking for him but he goes away when he doesn’t see him. Ian appears out of nowhere in a secret place where Rin is and they see when the transfer girl, who also a wing person, made a boy her servant and, to their misfortune, she sees them and she tells Rin that “Ian” lied to her and he’s going to fight there at eleven.

   Back at where Ian is staying (the house of the grandmother of the child’s body) they find that Kaito’s going to be their driver and so they go to see the fight. Both see when Tokage destroys the transfer girl and Ian shows her who he truly is. Believing in him Ian takes her away (flying and landing in Kaito’s car) to the house. The old lady accepts Rin but tells him he will listen to her story and even if she’s blind she knows about him and Ainsel. Wonder who she is? Find out in the next volume!

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.

Theory Linking the Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, and the Hunger Games

                     By Lil’ Leia

Hi guys! This is a theory that came to me the other day— that potentially links The Fault in Our Stars, the Divergent  and The Hunger Games trilogy together, even though they each have different authors. It may not seem that geeky to you, but it is to me— because I am a huge bookworm!  There is going to be a huge amount of parentheses and stuff, so bear with me. Anyway, there are MAJOR SPOILERS for each of these books, so if you haven’t read these books yet, you can either proceed at your own risk or stop reading altogether.  If you did read them, good for you! I present my theory now:

So in TFIOS, as most of you may know already, Hazel and Gus did the thing when they were staying in Amsterdam (as seen partially in the trailer). When Gus died later on, (this would take place directly after the novel) Hazel realized she was pregnant. Nine months later, she gave birth to a girl and nearly died in labor (due to the tumors in her lungs), but in life-saving surgery after the baby’s birth, the doctors decided to take all of her tumors out and make an emergency lung transplant (yes, her cancer was THAT severe).  After the surgery she was cancer-free. Later on she marries Isaac and raises her daughter healthily and happily. Her daughter grows up, gives birth, and the cycle goes on and on until (here we enter the Divergent part of the theory) Amanda Ritter (Edith Prior, Tris’s paternal ancestor) is born. 

The Purity War occurs, the Bureau of Genetic Welfare is established, and an older Amanda Ritter volunteers to participate in the experimental implementing of factions in Chicago.  She makes the video that is shown in Erudite headquarters at the end of Insurgent (book 2 of the Divergent trilogy), erases her memory with a serum, joins Abnegation, and reinvents herself as Edith Prior. One of her offspring joins Erudite, and then about two generations later, Andrew Prior (Tris’s father) is born into Erudite. Soon after, he falls in love with Natalie Wright from Dauntless in school (Tris’s mother, who later uses Prior as her last name), and they transfer to Abnegation together. They marry and, about 10 years later, have Tris and Caleb (Tris’s brother).  

Then the events in Divergent and Insurgent occur.  When in Allegiant (book 3 of the Divergent trilogy) it’s revealed that Chicago was an experimental city for the Bureau, (entering the Hunger Games part of the theory) it is also possible to assume that Panem was also an experimental city that just went awry and declared independence from the US government. (Based on current world news it is implied that sea level rises and global warming continues at their current pace.) That would account for the description of life before Panem (war, global warming. etc.). The US government barely holds power 45-75 years later and collapses; Panem conquests what was left of US possessed land, expands the district systems and its culture, and the events of The Hunger Games trilogy take place.

So… What do you think? I think it’s possible, given that this is totally fictional. I’m going to sign off early, so you can think about the possibility of this. See ya next week!