Thankfully, technology has given us the tools to give series like this the midas touch and make them gleam like they should have (but weren’t necessarily able to) from the start. And considering how expensive English-translated manga has become, Dark Horse is doing us all a solid by releasing this in one omnibus for a low price.ĭark Horse’s retouches have made the colors brighter, the shadows darker, the lines sharper, and all of the little details stand out in a way that couldn’t have happened during its original serialization both here and in Japan in the early to mid ’90s. This edition collects the first three volumes, or the first plot line, I, in one volume. There are six volumes in the series, split into two plot lines known as I and II. Luckily, Dark Horse went and scooped up the license, and then gave “MKR” the treatment it deserved from the get-go with a beautiful new, detailed translation (far more accurate than Tokyopop’s), as well as retouching the actual art before slapping it all together into one volume. This retouch of “MKR” is just a reminder of CLAMP’s ability to pull you in regardless of your age, gender, sex, or preferences in terms of comics, anime, and manga.Īfter Tokyopop’s version went out of print several years ago, I was afraid that “MKR” would be lost to the North American market for a long time. If you want to read a classic “magical girl” scenario with a twist, you always know to go to CLAMP. Kids, this series is apart of the golden era of shoujo manga. This retouch of “MKR” is just a reminder of CLAMP’s ability to pull you in regardless of your age, gender, sex, or preferences in Totally retouched and retranslated, Dark Horse Comics’ delicious new omnibus edition of the first series of “Magic Knight Rayearth” is miles above Tokyopop/Mixx’s previous effort first published 10 years ago. Totally retouched and retranslated, Dark Horse Comics’ delicious new omnibus edition of the first series of “Magic Knight Rayearth” is miles above Tokyopop/Mixx’s previous effort first published 10 years ago. But they do manage to bring off some memorable characters and psychological set-pieces, even if they are hung in air like the flying mountains. I begin to suspect trying to make sense of CLAMP is a lot like trying to find the 100 pennies in the grass. Someone once told me an anecdote about a couple of clever parents who, when they wanted some relief from their kids for a while, scattered pennies in the grass and told the kids they could come back inside when they'd found all 100 pennies - and then scattered 99 pennies. Like Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, the anime has material not in the manga that confuses the through-line when you circle back I am beginning to see the point of the manga purists.
However, about 90% of the way through the first omnibus (I read both volumes) the plot took a hard left turn into something more evocative of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", which I had been lulled, or bored, into not expecting, and which is why I just gave this 4 instead of 3 stars. I got my lifetime fill of giant fighting robots very early on in my explorations of anime, so the story almost lost me there. They collect plot coupons adding up to armor and weapons upgrades resulting, inevitably, in giant fighting robots, because this was from the 90s. Three 8th-grade girls on a field trip to Tokyo Tower (man, if you ever go to Tokyo, stay away from that tower) get whisked away to a magical world and set on a quest to Save It. I was interested to see how characters and themes recycled and refined in later works had their starts. This is one of the earlier and thus foundational works in the whole teetering superstructure. They collect plot coupons adding up to armor and weapons upg More in my explorations of the cross-connected CLAMP multiverse.
More in my explorations of the cross-connected CLAMP multiverse.
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