Comments on: The Young Magician (manga)

By: Lianne

Lianne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:33:58 +0000

I especially loved what she did with all the multicultralism and the different sects of magic. I don’t see it done like that very often

Young Magician does indeed handle that material fantastically, but for two other series that do the same: Island and Shaman King.

And there were some sections of Young Magician I read MANY times in order to fully understand what was going on. Case in point: when Volume 6 came out, I read it twice in English, then I looked up Chinese scans for Volume 7, then I bought Volume 7 in English when it came out and read through that once, then I read Volumes 6 and 7 in English back to back, and THEN I finally understood the Passion Flower Blue arc. And LOVED it. It even made Volumes 1-5 make more sense. To hell with linear storytelling–Young Magician has more re-read value than anything else I’ve ever had in my hands. I pick up something new every time I re-read it.

By: Aniru

Aniru — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:39:18 +0000

Wow, this is definitely one of my favorite series. It did indeed take me several tries to really get parts of the story, with me sometimes having to read just specific sections to fully understand what was going on. Once I did though.. wow. xD Love the themes, they’re very awesome. I can’t wait for the next book to come out, especially since Ibuki looks so cool on the cover. x] He’s definitely one of my favorite manga characters ever.

Random note.. I especially loved what she did with all the multicultralism and the different sects of magic. I don’t see it done like that very often x]

By: Alaena Night

Alaena Night — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:55:51 +0000

Whooooa! This sounds good! The panel linked at the top had me snickering (in a desperate attempt not to laugh) since I’m at a friend’s house and it’s four in the morning.

I will definitely try to check this one out next time I’m near a bookstore. ^^

And YAY for friendship between two boys without yaoi!

By: Lianne

Lianne — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:23:14 +0000

The M is for the extreme, graphic violence (people getting ripped apart, disemboweled, etc.) and the language. There’s also a bit of sex, including an incestuous rape that wasn’t graphic enough to be gratuitous but graphic enough to be disturbing. But as of Volume 9, there isn’t any yaoi at all (or yuri, for that matter). You would very, very hard-pressed to interpret the relationship between the two main (male) characters as sexual–there are many instances where they talk about it very directly as being a slow and somewhat desperate friendship. Besides, if Planet Ladder is any indication, Yuri Narushima uses romance very sparingly in her manga. And it’s a shoujo! And it still works! How does she do it?! This manga is awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome.

By: Prizz

Prizz — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:35:08 +0000

I’ve seen the cover at a bookstore and shocked to know it is rated M. Based on the covers, there are no female characters, so I concluded it must be yaoi. But upon reading this, there is no statement about boy love boy and cleared why it is rated M. So just to be sure, are there ANY implications to yaoi?