Magic Knight Rayearth II Vol 1

[meganbmoore]

Oh hey, Primera/Primela! I kind of love her Tsubasa version. Though now I’m looking for her boyfriend (Shougo?) to go with her.

And it’s a year later and RPG has been eternally ruined for the girls (Cackle when they talked about that? Me?) and every other country ever wants to invade Cephiro and become the Pillar. I’m not sure why they’d want to. It seems a pretty thankless and unhappy job.

Hikaru’s brothers are huge. And kinda generic Clamp males. But how are they so huge, and she’s so teeny? Did they all come first and steal all the height genes?

We highly approve of Lantis and his black armor and sword. We do not approve of Hikaru offering to let him hit her. Hikaru! Never mind Clamp’s Deep And Important “Special One Just For Me Staring” and the “you can hit me” bit being code of “this person never would,” we do not ask men a foot and a half taller than us who are solid muscle to hit us because we feel guilty! (And she killed his brother! And he feels sorry for her! And he has been in exile! And everyone hates him! Though I’m not sure I want to know how old he is…)

We also approve of Eagle and his underlings. Despite Eagle’s head gear. (A quick browse around the internet tells me that Lantis is both gay for Eagle and straight for Hikaru. This is Clamp, so I’ll just assume it’s canonically both.)

Fuu lands a prince? Most excellent! And I'm glad that they addressed her tricking Ferio. Though I was pretty sure he'd figured out what she was doing by the time he left them in Eterna.

But, is Ascot actually older and a teenager now, or just making himself look older hoping to impress Umi. If he’s still really nine or so…Clamp! We have discussed this! (And then she’s off having Meaningful Discussions with the guy who looks 10 and is actually several centuries old…)

Nice to see Gardina again (ok, and Ascot and Lafaraga and of course Presea…but I was worried we’d never see Gardina again!) and I love her insta-glomp of Hikaru and forcing Ascot to talk to Umi. I’m going to get very confused, though, if she has scenes with Tatra and Tarta. They both look like Gardina considering new outfits.


Is it just me, or does Clamp draw the girls as chibis more and more each volume, not to mention draw Hikaru with cat ears even more?

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a year later, so she's actually 15, but yeah. It's so popular in fantasy fiction, though, to have the 15-17 yr old with the 20-something guy that I don't notice it as much as I should. I just sigh and accept it as long as it isn't screaming "OMG PEDOPHILE!" Still, you'd think Clamp could have at least made him look like a mid-teen in the flashback, so we could mentall de-age him to 18-20...

I have to wonder,though, if Hikaru even really thinks like that yet? I mean, Fuu obviously (and more age-appropriately-oor at least, Ferio looksaround 17~ to me...) and Umi probably, but Hikaru? She seems to be a few years away from that.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Re: Hikaru: That's why I try to look at it from the intended audience's viewpoint. Most 12-year-old girls have crushes on pop stars and actors who are much too old for them in any realistic sense, and most don't think too much about the mechanical aspects of how that'd work, but it's fine as a pre-teen fantasy. I don't want to get too spoilery here, but I don't think Lantis is intended to be seen as liking Hikaru so much in a sexual way, as admiring her pure heart, and whatnot.

Um, I think I am getting overly analytical here. Sorry.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how Lantis's noticing Hikaru here came across to me. We just know we're meant to turn into 13 year olds and screech "OTP!!!!" because of the Deep And Meaningful Staring Of Clamp's Everything Is True Love Obsession.