Tamura arrives in Takeshi's place to receive Rin's plans for the Tokyo Tower renovation. To convince Tamura to take the situation seriously, he breaks a few of Tamura's bones. Haruhiko's bond with Tamura causes him to feel Tamura's pain, and suddenly he finds himself teleported to the scene in time to see Rin leaving. Later, Rin kidnaps Haruhiko, teleporting him to a rainy forest where a horrible truth is revealed.
Saki Hiwatari (日渡早紀 in Japanese) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. Her first work, "Mahōtsukai wa Shitteiru" was published in the weekly shōjo anthology Hana to Yume in 1982.
Sooooo good. I only had up to issue 6 collected since high school, and I've seen the anime, but only now, twenty years later have I started collecting this manga again. Issue 7 is incredibly expensive, so I started here with 8 - and wow did I miss a great story! Here we mostly learn about Shion, and it is pure shoujo melodrama and character study. The history of the Moon characters and their culture and religion is fascinating. I wish they animated all of this!
And the big cat! Only seen in the credits of the anime for me up til now! The mystery is resolved...kinda. Kyaa is still pretty weird.
This volume is almost entirely dedicated to Shion's past. It beautifully illustrates how our character is often shaped by the experiences we live through. It shows the different ways individuals react to situations and how the reality before them is perceived. The splash pages are absolutely stunning.
A heartbreaking entry in the series, trading action for reflection. We learn more about Shion's life and how he became the man Rin remembers being. I actually think this was handled better in the anime, but it's still fantastic in comic-form. Ohhhhhhh, Lazlo & Kyaa! Why?!?
The story starts to go into Shion's past in this volume, and features some of the most memorable scenes from the anime. The anime adaptation, from what I remember, also ends close to the last 20 pages or so of this manga volume....looking forward to reading the continuation of the story!