Enchanter 7
July 9, 2008
Following up on the heels of Variante, a series I don’t like very much and isn’t terribly good, here’s a series which certainly fails all quality tests, but I have an inordinate fondness for.
Certainly it tries to get me to hate it. It’s got plenty of ditzy girls who throw their large breasts around and have no problem using their bodies to get what they want. They also congregate around the main character, making some sort of… harem. The magical elements are played waaaay down, you have to look really hard to find them.
I hate myself a lot for it, but I can’t help but like the main plot. The main character, though very shallow, is a sweet guy, and there are nice scenes that play out while the girls are shoving their breasts everywhere. For example, I was immediately enamored with this volume when the first chapter was a story about one of the characters building a magical piano so that demons could hear human music. The music that’s played by a little girl who needed the piano attracts little demons from all over who have come to hear her beautiful playing. I’m just a sucker for that.
It doesn’t help the main character’s such a nice guy. He spends a lot of time worrying about other people and doing little things to help them, which I can’t help but like. He also has several stupid awkward scenes with his teacher which I should hate every time, but somehow play out in my mind as really cute coming-of-age stuff. I don’t know how I allow it this, but I do.
I don’t know. I still want more magic, and I may get some next volume, since it seems like we may see Haruhiko trying to help a girl who can’t help her split personality. But yeah. I enjoy this series more than I’m ever going to admit, and I would be destroyed if it ever stopped coming out. Hopefully the T&A will keep it afloat so that I get whatever bizarre enjoyment I can from its other… charms.
July 9, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I like Enchanter too- maybe it’s because the relationships are more down-to-Earth and involve a lot less hitting than normal for a manga with girls that look like that.
July 14, 2008 at 12:57 am
True, some of the relationships ring a lot truer than they have any right to in a series like this. It’s like it flashes all these warning signs that make me want to stay away, then does a bunch of stuff right.