manga: Phantom Dream Vol 2
Jun. 3rd, 2009 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThis is a very confusing manga! (And not in the cracktastic Kaori Yuki way.) When I understand what’s going on, I like it, but when I don’t, I just start looking at how Takaya handles the various themes that she later refines in Fruits Basket.
We have the evil main family of the hero and the various cousins with their issues and relationships coming out of the woodwork, not to mention family secrets and feuds and everything being rooted in something that happened centuries ago.
It’s more openly dark than Fruits Basket, though, and lacks the veneer of friendship and humor that tends to make FB work so well. I suspect, though, that I’d find Tamaki and Asahi’s doomed romance very touching if I always understood what was going on.
We have the evil main family of the hero and the various cousins with their issues and relationships coming out of the woodwork, not to mention family secrets and feuds and everything being rooted in something that happened centuries ago.
It’s more openly dark than Fruits Basket, though, and lacks the veneer of friendship and humor that tends to make FB work so well. I suspect, though, that I’d find Tamaki and Asahi’s doomed romance very touching if I always understood what was going on.