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アラタカンガタリ~ 革神語 [Arata Kangatari] #12
Arata: The Legend, Vol. 12
Reads R to L (Japanese Style). In a mythical world where humans and gods coexist, a ceremony marking the new governing princess is about to occur for the first time in 60 years. Only a girl from the Hime Clan may take this position, but the lack of females born to this family means that a boy called Arata must pose for the role. Meanwhile in modern-day Japan, a boy named Arata Hinohara is starting his new life in high school. He wants to put memories of his difficult past behind him, but things aren't going to be simple when he discovers a mysterious connection to the first Arata...
Hinohara was once friends with his tormentor Kadowaki, just as Shinsho rivals Kannagi and Akachi used to be close comrades. Now all Kadowaki wants is to make Hinohara submit to him, and he’ll go to any length to make this happen. But when Kadowaki seeks an alliance with Akachi, he gets more than he bargained for!
Hinohara was once friends with his tormentor Kadowaki, just as Shinsho rivals Kannagi and Akachi used to be close comrades. Now all Kadowaki wants is to make Hinohara submit to him, and he’ll go to any length to make this happen. But when Kadowaki seeks an alliance with Akachi, he gets more than he bargained for!
192 pages, Paperback
First published August 18, 2011
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Yuu Watase
362 books1,164 followersYuu Watase (渡瀬悠宇) is a Japanese shoujo manga-ka. She is known for her works Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music.
She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles[which?] as a bishōnen manga artist.[citation needed] In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as "Yu Watase".
She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles[which?] as a bishōnen manga artist.[citation needed] In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as "Yu Watase".
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November 18, 2017
Arata and Kadowaki square off again and we learn what happened in the past between Kannagi and Akachi. Good stuff!
June 28, 2018
Losing interest, but 3 stars for the yikes moment in the beginning :O
March 16, 2017
This volume was really good and honestly one of my favorites in the entire series. It's a little graphic in terms of violence, but it's got some great action and character building - plus you finally find out more about Kannagi.
March 28, 2013
A little dull. This volume sort of made clue in to how rigidly this series sticks to gendered tropes. Like that moment where they were like 'wait! That Nachiru is no flower girl! You cannot trust him, he has crossdressed to deceive us!' caught me offguard because I'd just assumed he was a girl, and the deception just extended to pretending to be harmless? And then I was like '...every single sho and zokusho of this story has been male. Wow. How did I not notice that until this moment'. That combined with Kannagi and Akachi's tragic backstory being centered around a fridged women and well. :/ I know you can do better than this Watase, I've read your other work. 2.5 stars
February 8, 2013
... Akachi you tricky bastard
Flashbacks totally make the story interesting again!
But there really needs to be better hayagami power alignments. We had elemental bending, to random clothes bending... to biohard infections? Seriously?
Flashbacks totally make the story interesting again!
But there really needs to be better hayagami power alignments. We had elemental bending, to random clothes bending... to biohard infections? Seriously?
May 22, 2013
(12-13) yeahhhh this series kind of went downhill with these two... I thought the story went kind of stupid. The series as a whole has a lot of flaws, but these two were even worse...
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November 15, 2013In shoujo manga, the villain origin stories are always the best.
October 12, 2016
Kadowaki is in trouble when he wants to ally with a Sho who is a lot like him. this Sho was once best friends with Kannagi who approaches and wants to make him submit instead of Arata.
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