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meganbmoore) wrote2009-03-25 11:16 am
meganbmoore) wrote2009-03-25 11:16 am
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manga: Legal Drug Vol 1
Kazuhaya Kudo has visions when he touches people or objects, but appears to be homeless. When he collapses in the snow, he’s taken home by Rikuo, who works at Green Drug Pharmacy, and rents a room connected to it. Kazuhaya is hired by Kakei, the owner of the pharmacy, who also has a psychic ability of his own. Kakei sends the boys on supernatural errands, but seems to have a good idea of how they’ll turn out before hand. There’s also Saiga, a man who smokes and wears sunglasses, and seems to have nothing to do but lounge around the pharmacy. Unless Rikuo and Kazuhaya re off on an errand, in which case, he’s pawing Kakei.
I’ve heard that this series is pretty much a proto-xxxHolic and that’s pretty accurate, and I can’t quite separate the two in my head and stop comparing them. I had a hard time forcing myself to stop calling Kakei, Rikuo, Kazuhaya not!Yuuko, not!Doumeki and not!Watanuki. Of the main characters, only Saiga doesn’t seem to be the basis for an xxxHolic character, and he reminds me of Seishiro from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999, in both looks and personality. Only apparently non-evil. It also seems to be the closest thing to straight shounen-ai that Clamp has written. Not including the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures yaoi doujinshi that they started out doing.
This has, I think, a stronger beginning than xxxHolic, but doesn’t have that “something” that makes me love xxxHolic so much. And I’m not referring to Yuuko. Then again, it also took a few volumes for xxxHolic to really take off for me. The art and themes have the same dreamy supernatural quality that xxxHolic has, but not the amazing stark black and whites and negative imaging. I wish I’d checked this one out before having read so much of xxxHolic, so that I’d be able to separate them better in my head, but this is one of several Clamp titles that initially didn’t interest me as much. Of course, the same was true of Magic Knight Rayearth, which I ended up quite fond of.
Also, I am shallow and went “ZOMG! IMPORTANT TATTOOS!” at one point.
Possible Tsubasa; Reservoir Chronicle spoiler. I’m not positive, and I’d have to track it down, but I think Rikuo’s tattoos actually look like Fai’s.
I’ve heard that this series is pretty much a proto-xxxHolic and that’s pretty accurate, and I can’t quite separate the two in my head and stop comparing them. I had a hard time forcing myself to stop calling Kakei, Rikuo, Kazuhaya not!Yuuko, not!Doumeki and not!Watanuki. Of the main characters, only Saiga doesn’t seem to be the basis for an xxxHolic character, and he reminds me of Seishiro from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999, in both looks and personality. Only apparently non-evil. It also seems to be the closest thing to straight shounen-ai that Clamp has written. Not including the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures yaoi doujinshi that they started out doing.
This has, I think, a stronger beginning than xxxHolic, but doesn’t have that “something” that makes me love xxxHolic so much. And I’m not referring to Yuuko. Then again, it also took a few volumes for xxxHolic to really take off for me. The art and themes have the same dreamy supernatural quality that xxxHolic has, but not the amazing stark black and whites and negative imaging. I wish I’d checked this one out before having read so much of xxxHolic, so that I’d be able to separate them better in my head, but this is one of several Clamp titles that initially didn’t interest me as much. Of course, the same was true of Magic Knight Rayearth, which I ended up quite fond of.
Also, I am shallow and went “ZOMG! IMPORTANT TATTOOS!” at one point.
Possible Tsubasa; Reservoir Chronicle spoiler. I’m not positive, and I’d have to track it down, but I think Rikuo’s tattoos actually look like Fai’s.