+Anima 5
Posted: October 3, 2007 Filed under: + Anima 1 Comment »Natsumi Mukai – Tokyopop – 2007 – 10 volumes total
We didn’t get to see any new +Anima this time around, but we did learn some background on a few of the characters. Vague background, but some background all the same. We learn something about the way that Husky may have come to be a +Anima, we learn how Cooro was raised (and also how he was… born, I guess, but this bit lasts about one panel, so it’s not as enlightening as you would think, and I suspect more will come later), and we learn a very little bit about Senri, with more promised next volume. That’s pretty good.
The longest story is about Husky being a merman, and kind of helping out a boy who thinks he descended from mermaids with several things, including an inadvertent crush on Husky. It was a really cute story.
There was another cute story about a woman waiting for her son to come home who takes the four +Anima children in to live with her. Cooro is especially taken with her. The chapter ends on kind of a weird note, where Cooro acts as a kind of trigger for the woman’s memories.
The last two chapters I believe will finally be a story involving the Kim-Un-Kir. This story has Senri getting quite involved, and carries over into the next volume.
The first chapter has Cooro making friends with a girl who loves +Anima. She begins to act as a narrator, and it makes me wonder where she’s going to wind up in the scheme of things.
This is still a really tragically under-appreciated series. It’s also one of the few really good fantasy series I’ve read. It’s definitely aimed at little kids, but it’s good little kid stuff, unlike… well, Pichi Pichi Pitch, which I’ve already drug through the mud tonight. It’s episodic, but each episode is very different, and none of the usual plot devices are anywhere to be found as far as hot springs and festivals go. It’s also finally starting to pick up an overarching plot, so it’s as good a time as any to jump in.
Hee^^, I love how you started out describing this series as interesting and unique when it first came out, then slowly in reviews let it become know that you have turned into an enthusiatic fan utterly enthralled by this series^^.
Cooro and Husky are the best^-~