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manga: Wanted (complete)
Dec. 2nd, 2008 11:25 pmWhen Armenia’s friend, Luce, is kidnapped by pirates, she vows to grow up and rescue him. Years later, she disguises herself as a cabin boy and joins the crew of Captain Skulls, the pirate who kidnapped Luce. Naturally, Luce is now Captain Skulls, and Armenia’s disguise is soon discovered. And then they go have piratey adventures around the Mediterranean with the crew chortling as they insist that no-no-no-they-do-not-like-each-other-and-are-not-involved-and-stop-naming-our-future-babies-already!
The book is light fluff, but fun. It’s the kind of book where, as soon as you realize the cute naval officer hunting Skulls isn’t evil, you go “you know, if this were longer than one volume, I’ll bet he’d be Skulls’s childhood friend, or the long lost brother of one of them” only to learn that he is, indeed, a childhood friend about five pages later. And since it’s by Matsuri Hino, you know it will cater to every kink she can think of, despite her normal “OMG no bad wrong!” aspects not being there. (For the best, really, as apparently heroes who really are little kids and the entire cast acting like the heroine is the property of a character who creeps me out even before he’s a potential love interest exceed my “OMG no bad wrong!” capacity when Kaori Yuki, Clamp, and Higuri You can’t.)
The book is light fluff, but fun. It’s the kind of book where, as soon as you realize the cute naval officer hunting Skulls isn’t evil, you go “you know, if this were longer than one volume, I’ll bet he’d be Skulls’s childhood friend, or the long lost brother of one of them” only to learn that he is, indeed, a childhood friend about five pages later. And since it’s by Matsuri Hino, you know it will cater to every kink she can think of, despite her normal “OMG no bad wrong!” aspects not being there. (For the best, really, as apparently heroes who really are little kids and the entire cast acting like the heroine is the property of a character who creeps me out even before he’s a potential love interest exceed my “OMG no bad wrong!” capacity when Kaori Yuki, Clamp, and Higuri You can’t.)
