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Midorikawa Yuki: Akaku saku koe vol. 1
A series of short stories focusing on Karashima, a boy with a voice so beautiful he can make anyone do anything just by speaking to them.
The premise is lovely and so is the title, but I have to say I'm quite bored by the various criminal cases Karashima is involved in solving. I enjoy the pages where Midorikawa lets reality casually slide over to dream, as the opening with the surprising and intriguing shot of a boy wearing a fox mask, and the scenes with blood changing to red flowers and the snow to cherry blossoms. Beautiful.
Everyone in this manga seems so obsessed with Karashima, which makes him edge towards the Gary Stu side of characterization, but he doesn't cross over just yet. He's rather erotic, though, especially when he leans in to whisper sweet noithing ... eh, I mean commands into the ears of various people of the male sex. Yay for homoerotism. Kokubu? Who's that?
Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM