If you’re dubious about love triangles, rest assured that it’s a well-executed one. She has two partners: Kuryu, the cheerful one hiding a dark past (that won’t be explained for several volumes), and Yako, the cranky one hiding a tragic past (that involves unrequited love for a ghost who coincidentally looked exactly like Rasetsu). By the time she’s eighteen, Rasetsu has given up on love, and is instead using her powers to work with an agency that exorcises ghosts. He’ll take her away on her twentieth birthday–unless she can find true love first. Rasetsu is a psychic who was marked by a demon when she was fifteen years old. If you enjoy YA paranormal, then you absolutely want to read this series.
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Here are a couple series that will feel a bit familiar (as well as a bit strange) to any fans of YA.
Manga does not exactly map onto USA category classifications, but a lot of it is about and/or aimed at teenagers. However, since it was massively popular, it’s pretty easy to find at the library.)
(Tragically, this series is out-of-print due to the publisher going out of business. And it’s a story about hope, and how nobody can save you, but people can help you. (And yet her kindness is still depicted as a form of strength, not naiveté.) It’s a story about how loving and being loved are learned behaviors, very precious and very difficult, desperately needed and never guaranteed. But the wacky premise of the zodiac curse quickly becomes a poignant exploration of isolation and familial dysfunction while the heroine, Tohru, is not a simple icon of sweetness and light, but a complex and poignant character trying to cope with her own traumas. There is a lot of fluff in Fruits Basket, and a lot of sweetness. You would think that this would be the fluffiest, most saccharine story imaginable. Several of them are attractive boys who go to her high school. Here’s the premise of Fruits Basket: an impossibly good-hearted teenaged orphan girl meets a rich, reclusive family, some of whom are cursed to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac when hugged by somebody of the opposite sex. And while the two brothers are the main characters, there’s a huge ensemble cast that includes a lot of women, who are not only all strong in very different ways, but are also all feminine in very different ways. It’s got a “revenge is bad” plotline that doesn’t reduce it to matter of ritual purity, but makes it clear that your choices still matter even if you’ve already got blood on your hands. It’s one of best stories that I’ve seen at redeeming characters who have done really terrible things, without minimizing what they’ve done or having them be easily forgiven by their victims. It’s an epic story that deals with ancient plots and conflicts between countries, but is propelled forward by intimate, human connections. The art is gorgeous, the characters are fascinating and lovable, and the 27-volume storyline is tightly plotted. I don’t have enough words to praise this series. It’s not.) They set out to regain their original bodies by finding the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, which can supposedly allow alchemists to circumvent the law of Equivalent Exchange but it soon becomes apparent that the Philosopher’s Stone doesn’t come without a price either. When they fail, they pay a terrible price: Ed loses his right arm and left leg, while Al remains alive only as a soul attached to a suit of armor. In a world where people use alchemy, which works on the principle of Equivalent Exchange-“to obtain something, something of equal value must be lost”-two young brothers, Edward and Alphronse, attempt to break the ultimate taboo and bring their mother back from the dead.
It’s a cliché to start describing stories with “in a world where,” but sometimes it’s absolutely appropriate. These are the best-of-the-best, the series that I would absolutely recommend to everyone. So if you’ve never crossed your mental wires trying to read right-to-left, here’s a list of seven great manga-all written by women!-that I have helpfully divided into categories. But there are still plenty of people who have never tried it. By Rosamund Hodge ( the past twenty years, manga has changed from an obscure fringe of geekdom to something nearly mainstream.
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