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Saturday, September 23, 2006

MeruPuri (review)


Starting off, this is the most gorgeous art I have pretty much ever seen in a manga. Everything is intricately detailed, and all the guys are hot without being too overbearing or TOO pretty. They are pretty, but only just pretty enough.
This is one of the weirdest premises for a story I have ever heard. Here it is in short: Girl meets small boy. Small boy goes home with girl because small boy appears to be lost. Girl feeds small boy and lets small boy sleep in her room. Girl wakes up with a big boy in her bed. Girl freaks out. Small boy has curse that turns him into big boy in the dark. Small boy can only be turned back into small boy with kiss from his beloved maiden... In this case, girl.
Anyway, it's very strange, but, Lord help me, I love it. In normal cases, if a hot prince (which is what the boy turns out to be) fell in love with a normal, everyday girl, whose parents are, of course, not living in the hous at the time, the girl would at least feel flattered. Not Airi, who has dreams of living a simple, poor life, in a house she and her husband build themselves. Apparently, it is much more appealing to live in a cottage-like thing on the plains than a castle in a magical country... Someone for got to clue me in on that.
The story is a bit of a reverse harem, so Airi's got at least three guys after her at one time, and surprisingly, she doesn't enjoy it one bit. Actually, that's not surprising for manga, just real life.
Anyway, the art is beautiful, the story's cute, the guys are hot, and the series is only four volumes, which are all out now. If it weren't for the few confusions and mild unanswered questions of the last volume, I would definitely give this series a ten. (I really like giving tens!) But, since I didn't completely adore how things were wrapped up, I give it probably a 9/10.
~Lahela~

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