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manga: Kobato Vol 1-3
Feb. 21st, 2012 09:23 pmKobato is a series that takes Clamp's almost-alarming earnestness that pops up when it's time to talk about Feelings and makes a series about just that, wrapped in a concerningly cute package with cameos of characters from other Clamp series showing up every five pages.
Kobato is an initially-homeless young woman who is on a mission to cure as many "wounded hearts" as she can. Each time she helps someone a bed shows up in her glass bottle, and when the bottle is filled, she gets a wish granted. We don't yet know what the wish is, save that it involves going somewhere. She's aided in her quest by an ill-tempered spirit named Ioryogi who currently inhabits a stuffed dog. Eventually, Kobato gets an apartment and a job working at a kindergarten that's being harassed by Yakuza, and her neighbor, Fujimoto, also works at the kindergarten and works around half a dozen jobs to try to help with the yakuza debt.
I like it and it's entertaining, but I feel like I need a break after every couple of chapters. it's just so earnest about everything. Also, I had a slightly surreal moment when the fortune teller from xxxHolic showed up and gave Ioryogi a bottle of wine, and confirmed Ioryogi's suspicion that she had "seen through" him. "Slightly surreal" of the "I haven't finished xxxHolic yet, what happened to Yuuko? BAD BRAIN!“ variety.
I do hope the plot picks up pace soon though. I don't think it actually is moving slowly for the first few volumes of what's likely intended to be a longer series, but all the earnestness and good intentions make it feel like it is.
Kobato is an initially-homeless young woman who is on a mission to cure as many "wounded hearts" as she can. Each time she helps someone a bed shows up in her glass bottle, and when the bottle is filled, she gets a wish granted. We don't yet know what the wish is, save that it involves going somewhere. She's aided in her quest by an ill-tempered spirit named Ioryogi who currently inhabits a stuffed dog. Eventually, Kobato gets an apartment and a job working at a kindergarten that's being harassed by Yakuza, and her neighbor, Fujimoto, also works at the kindergarten and works around half a dozen jobs to try to help with the yakuza debt.
I like it and it's entertaining, but I feel like I need a break after every couple of chapters. it's just so earnest about everything. Also, I had a slightly surreal moment when the fortune teller from xxxHolic showed up and gave Ioryogi a bottle of wine, and confirmed Ioryogi's suspicion that she had "seen through" him. "Slightly surreal" of the "I haven't finished xxxHolic yet, what happened to Yuuko? BAD BRAIN!“ variety.
I do hope the plot picks up pace soon though. I don't think it actually is moving slowly for the first few volumes of what's likely intended to be a longer series, but all the earnestness and good intentions make it feel like it is.
