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Alice 19th, Vol. 1
by Yuu Watase
(originally written for Anime on DVD)
The story kicks off with Alice doing e-mail via her cell phone. We don't know who she's writing, but she's asked if there's someone special in their life. There is?an upperclassman in her high school named Kyo. However, her older sister Mayura also has a crush on him.
This takes us down a journey where Alice and Mayura are pitted against each other. Mayura is the very pretty older sister and life pretty much revolves around her. However, Mayura doesn't come across as stuck up and at one point you can tell that in a way she doesn't think it's fair that her parents constantly doting on her prevents Alice from getting what she wants.
Alice, on the other hand, isn't like Miaka or Aya from Watase's previous works. She's shy and quiet and is willing to do anything to please people including submerge her feelings for Kyo in order to allow Mayura a chance for happiness and to go out with a boy her sister sets her up with who tries to force himself on her.
But what changes in the middle of all of this is that Alice comes across a rabbit out in the middle of traffic. After saving the rabbit, Kyo winds up saving her from the traffic. The rabbit leaves, but then Kyo becomes obsessed with finding the animal. What the rabbit has left behind was a bracelet. Shortly thereafter, Alice encounters the rabbit again, who transforms into an extremely cute rabbit girl and calls herself Nyozuka. She said that the symbol on Alice's bracelet is for the word "courage," the 19th of the sacred Lotis Words.
According to Nyozuka, "Words can save people?or they can hurt people." When Alice's true feelings come rushing out her in a verbal attack on her sister, they have the power to make Mayura disappear. Now it's up to Alice to learn the Lotis Words and gain their power in order to find her sister and bring her back.
This manga is in a way Yu Watase's reaction to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Her author notes are very revealing about the origin of the series and how the power of words and communications drive events rather than violence. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of this series and seeing how this concept develops. As the youngest sister myself, I find Alice very easy to identify with and found Mayura and Kyo to be very endearing themselves. Like Alice, I've found myself in situations where I've said something I wish I could take back. I think many people have and that's where many people will be able to connect with this series. Highly recommended.
The story kicks off with Alice doing e-mail via her cell phone. We don't know who she's writing, but she's asked if there's someone special in their life. There is?an upperclassman in her high school named Kyo. However, her older sister Mayura also has a crush on him.
This takes us down a journey where Alice and Mayura are pitted against each other. Mayura is the very pretty older sister and life pretty much revolves around her. However, Mayura doesn't come across as stuck up and at one point you can tell that in a way she doesn't think it's fair that her parents constantly doting on her prevents Alice from getting what she wants.
Alice, on the other hand, isn't like Miaka or Aya from Watase's previous works. She's shy and quiet and is willing to do anything to please people including submerge her feelings for Kyo in order to allow Mayura a chance for happiness and to go out with a boy her sister sets her up with who tries to force himself on her.
But what changes in the middle of all of this is that Alice comes across a rabbit out in the middle of traffic. After saving the rabbit, Kyo winds up saving her from the traffic. The rabbit leaves, but then Kyo becomes obsessed with finding the animal. What the rabbit has left behind was a bracelet. Shortly thereafter, Alice encounters the rabbit again, who transforms into an extremely cute rabbit girl and calls herself Nyozuka. She said that the symbol on Alice's bracelet is for the word "courage," the 19th of the sacred Lotis Words.
According to Nyozuka, "Words can save people?or they can hurt people." When Alice's true feelings come rushing out her in a verbal attack on her sister, they have the power to make Mayura disappear. Now it's up to Alice to learn the Lotis Words and gain their power in order to find her sister and bring her back.
This manga is in a way Yu Watase's reaction to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Her author notes are very revealing about the origin of the series and how the power of words and communications drive events rather than violence. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of this series and seeing how this concept develops. As the youngest sister myself, I find Alice very easy to identify with and found Mayura and Kyo to be very endearing themselves. Like Alice, I've found myself in situations where I've said something I wish I could take back. I think many people have and that's where many people will be able to connect with this series. Highly recommended.