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ぼくの地球を守って [Boku no Chikyū wo Mamotte] #1
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Please Save My Earth is part science fiction, part fantasy, and completely engrossing; from a master of the shojo style. Alice's dreams of being a lovely woman living on the moon provide an escape from her job babysitting the holy terror Rin. When he goes one step too far, she slaps him, causing him to fall off a balcony and into a coma. When he awakens, he seems changed and strangely connected to Alice. Meanwhile, at school, Alice meets a pair of boys with an oddly close relationship. She soon learns that they, too, have dreams of living on the moon.
175 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Saki Hiwatari
145 books35 followersSaki 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.
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June 3, 2017
This was a slowly-paced, engrossing story of young people dreaming of the same alternate world. Then suddenly the last bit was some fast-paced craziness with the obnoxious kid Rin developing super powers and persecuting a gang member who had never appeared in the story prior. Huh what? But up till then it was interesting so I will get the next volume and hope for less brat and more conversations with trees.
September 27, 2012
I'm stealing the series description just to get the basic plot elements out of the way on this one:
"Part science fiction, part fantasy, and completely engrossing, this provocative manga stars sensitive high school student Alice Sakaguchi, who has a recurring dream that she's part of a team of alien scientists on the moon. She doesn't really believe it, until new evidence arrives. Now even her eight-year-old neighbor is acting strange. Alice's dreams of being a lovely woman living on the moon are a respite from her job babysitting the holy terror Rin. When he goes one step too far, she slaps him, causing him to fall off a balcony and into a coma. When he awakens, he seems changed — and strangely connected to Alice. Meanwhile, at school, Alice meets a pair of boys with an oddly close relationship. Soon she learns they too have dreams — of living on the moon."
That pretty much sums up the plot, which is interesting in itself but not really what makes this series such a draw. What holds the series together are the thematic threads that are woven between the two different stories being told at the same time — the story of Alice's alienating experiences as a newcomer at her high school and the group of dreamers that she meets (many of whom later turn out to have special powers), and the story of the people living on the moon that unfolds slowly like a mystery, or like an almost forgotten dream that returns bit by bit during the day.
The first theme that comes into play is the theme of existential homelessness. Alice is out of place at her new school, but that's just really an expression of the out-of-placeness that most adolescents work with on a daily basis. Alice's family has moved because her father has a new job, a circumstance that calls attention to capitalism's tendency to create rootlessness and destroy tradition. Alice finds herself adrift in a plastic urban landscape where locality has no meaning except as a place of residence and where the bulk of immediate relationships available are either constituted by meaningless obligation or the brutal group dynamics of the high-school clique. The desire for home, for a feeling of belonging, is foregrounded in the opening pages: “The moon ... full and bright — a mystery. It makes me feel ... homesick. I want to go home. I want to go home ... all I want ... is to go home.”
One of the ways this desire for belonging plays out is in the classic opposition between natural space and urban space. Alice has moved from the countryside to the city where concrete dominates. Alice has a special relationship to the natural world — a spontaneous ability to communicate with plants and animals — that clearly symbolizes a type of spiritual and unmediated oneness with the universe itself. In the city however, concrete — and the forms of negative sociality that it represents — prevents Alice from having this kind of deep contact with the world. The opening image, of a cosmically large Alice embracing an aura-encircled Earth while floating in a space shower of cherry blossoms, is the apotheosis of the desire to belong, a complete absorption into universality.
The desire for belonging plays out in another way too, however, in the classic style of outsiders banding together. Jinpachi and Issei, two students in Alice’s class, have been having identical dreams about having once lived a different life on the moon as different people. In sharing these dreams together they form a bond that’s completely their own, and completely outside of the normative types of bonding that define high-school sociality. In a way it’s almost like the fantasy worlds that children create and share, or the worlds of fantasy and science fiction that are consumed and shared among the geeks of the world, who are often equally as ostracized. A really important element here is, of course, the idea shared by Jinpachi and Issei that they are not really only themselves, but also the aliens Gyokuran and Enju. This highlights the desire we have to inhabit identities other than the ones we already exist as (one of the very reasons we read fiction), and sounds very much like the common fantasy that Freud identified among children of having secretly been adopted. In this fantasy you discover one day that your parents are not really your parents and that instead you come from a family with a great lineage. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber both engage with a similar theme — the impossibility of being heroic in an age in which social pressure pushes the individual to conform, be a good subject, and get to work on time without complaint. When the option of become a hero is foreclosed, the next best thing is to fantasize about heroics, to fantasize about being someone completely different than you are. (Of course, in Please Save My Earth, the point is that everyone really is completely different than they are, but it is a fantasy, after all.)
A final theme that plays a major role in this series is the theme of identity. Almost all of the characters in this series have multiple identities (a bit like Dax from Deep Space Nine), and the series spends a lot of time playing around with what it means to carry multiple selves inside. Of course, this is also a major theme of adolescent life, in which a high-school student might present one way at home, one way at school, and one way within a particular peer group. Hiwatari approaches this question on a much deeper level, however, basically asking what it might mean to have a particular type of ‘soul’ in a world in which you’re not allowed to be that soul. In the first issue this plays out as a question of gender identity: in their past lives Enju (a woman) was in love with Gyokuran (a man), but in this life the personality Enju is made manifest in the body of Issei, which means that Issei is in love with a part of Jinpachi (Gyokuran), even though both are boys and neither is gay. It’s complicated, but it’s a complexity that is perhaps more representative of the selves we really are, rather than the fictional unities we convince ourselves must exist.
I’m making it sound like the series is all theme and no action, but this isn’t the case at all. Rin (a nine-year old with special powers who is in love with Alice) is a brat and a cipher. He also survives a nine-story fall, is able to predict the immediate future, and he can fly. There’s a scene at the end of the first book where he confronts a tough on a motorcycle that’s almost like a shojo take on Akira. There are dreams, disembodied states, and a base on the moon. The dinosaurs at the beginning of the book may or may not be involved in all this.
Highly recommended, though many comic readers may have trouble getting past Hiwatari’s somewhat naïve style (I myself love it) and/or the stylized melodrama that is part and parcel of the shojo genre.
"Part science fiction, part fantasy, and completely engrossing, this provocative manga stars sensitive high school student Alice Sakaguchi, who has a recurring dream that she's part of a team of alien scientists on the moon. She doesn't really believe it, until new evidence arrives. Now even her eight-year-old neighbor is acting strange. Alice's dreams of being a lovely woman living on the moon are a respite from her job babysitting the holy terror Rin. When he goes one step too far, she slaps him, causing him to fall off a balcony and into a coma. When he awakens, he seems changed — and strangely connected to Alice. Meanwhile, at school, Alice meets a pair of boys with an oddly close relationship. Soon she learns they too have dreams — of living on the moon."
That pretty much sums up the plot, which is interesting in itself but not really what makes this series such a draw. What holds the series together are the thematic threads that are woven between the two different stories being told at the same time — the story of Alice's alienating experiences as a newcomer at her high school and the group of dreamers that she meets (many of whom later turn out to have special powers), and the story of the people living on the moon that unfolds slowly like a mystery, or like an almost forgotten dream that returns bit by bit during the day.
The first theme that comes into play is the theme of existential homelessness. Alice is out of place at her new school, but that's just really an expression of the out-of-placeness that most adolescents work with on a daily basis. Alice's family has moved because her father has a new job, a circumstance that calls attention to capitalism's tendency to create rootlessness and destroy tradition. Alice finds herself adrift in a plastic urban landscape where locality has no meaning except as a place of residence and where the bulk of immediate relationships available are either constituted by meaningless obligation or the brutal group dynamics of the high-school clique. The desire for home, for a feeling of belonging, is foregrounded in the opening pages: “The moon ... full and bright — a mystery. It makes me feel ... homesick. I want to go home. I want to go home ... all I want ... is to go home.”
One of the ways this desire for belonging plays out is in the classic opposition between natural space and urban space. Alice has moved from the countryside to the city where concrete dominates. Alice has a special relationship to the natural world — a spontaneous ability to communicate with plants and animals — that clearly symbolizes a type of spiritual and unmediated oneness with the universe itself. In the city however, concrete — and the forms of negative sociality that it represents — prevents Alice from having this kind of deep contact with the world. The opening image, of a cosmically large Alice embracing an aura-encircled Earth while floating in a space shower of cherry blossoms, is the apotheosis of the desire to belong, a complete absorption into universality.
The desire for belonging plays out in another way too, however, in the classic style of outsiders banding together. Jinpachi and Issei, two students in Alice’s class, have been having identical dreams about having once lived a different life on the moon as different people. In sharing these dreams together they form a bond that’s completely their own, and completely outside of the normative types of bonding that define high-school sociality. In a way it’s almost like the fantasy worlds that children create and share, or the worlds of fantasy and science fiction that are consumed and shared among the geeks of the world, who are often equally as ostracized. A really important element here is, of course, the idea shared by Jinpachi and Issei that they are not really only themselves, but also the aliens Gyokuran and Enju. This highlights the desire we have to inhabit identities other than the ones we already exist as (one of the very reasons we read fiction), and sounds very much like the common fantasy that Freud identified among children of having secretly been adopted. In this fantasy you discover one day that your parents are not really your parents and that instead you come from a family with a great lineage. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber both engage with a similar theme — the impossibility of being heroic in an age in which social pressure pushes the individual to conform, be a good subject, and get to work on time without complaint. When the option of become a hero is foreclosed, the next best thing is to fantasize about heroics, to fantasize about being someone completely different than you are. (Of course, in Please Save My Earth, the point is that everyone really is completely different than they are, but it is a fantasy, after all.)
A final theme that plays a major role in this series is the theme of identity. Almost all of the characters in this series have multiple identities (a bit like Dax from Deep Space Nine), and the series spends a lot of time playing around with what it means to carry multiple selves inside. Of course, this is also a major theme of adolescent life, in which a high-school student might present one way at home, one way at school, and one way within a particular peer group. Hiwatari approaches this question on a much deeper level, however, basically asking what it might mean to have a particular type of ‘soul’ in a world in which you’re not allowed to be that soul. In the first issue this plays out as a question of gender identity: in their past lives Enju (a woman) was in love with Gyokuran (a man), but in this life the personality Enju is made manifest in the body of Issei, which means that Issei is in love with a part of Jinpachi (Gyokuran), even though both are boys and neither is gay. It’s complicated, but it’s a complexity that is perhaps more representative of the selves we really are, rather than the fictional unities we convince ourselves must exist.
I’m making it sound like the series is all theme and no action, but this isn’t the case at all. Rin (a nine-year old with special powers who is in love with Alice) is a brat and a cipher. He also survives a nine-story fall, is able to predict the immediate future, and he can fly. There’s a scene at the end of the first book where he confronts a tough on a motorcycle that’s almost like a shojo take on Akira. There are dreams, disembodied states, and a base on the moon. The dinosaurs at the beginning of the book may or may not be involved in all this.
Highly recommended, though many comic readers may have trouble getting past Hiwatari’s somewhat naïve style (I myself love it) and/or the stylized melodrama that is part and parcel of the shojo genre.
January 14, 2021
This is a rating and review of the entire series.
Story: ☆☆
Art: ☆☆☆
What on earth are y'all smoking and where can I get some of that. I've gotten lord knows how many recommendations for this series and I just. don't. see it. It started off well enough, so I can appreciate the high-ish ratings for the first few volumes, but it only gets worse and I don't know where it went wrong.
First of all, nope. NOPE. BIG FAT NOPE to all of you falling for the "romance" and tryna tell me but it's the spiiiiirit of a full-grown man in the bodyyyyyy of an eight year old booooyy.
NOPE. Get your crack away from me. Rin is an eight year old child and this story trying to posit him as the romantic lead because his memories are that of a 20-something year old man . . . and y'all falling for it?? I mean. Gross. Go out to your closest schoolyard. Look around at those eight year old boys. Are you seriously telling me you can believably imagine him and even support the idea of that kid as a romantic lead, engaged with a 16/17 year old female?
You gonna tell me if one of them turned out to be a child prodigy, smarter than any guy your own age, you could see yourself romantically falling for that kid?
If your answer to any of those question is yes, then perhaps you should stay away from any schoolyards.
Second of all, Rin is an irredeemable, shit-stirrer of a character. Every wrong and bad thing that happens in this series is a product of his own . . . his own . . . what? Boredom? He has no motive behind anything!
Woe is me I was the last human alive, suffering in loneliness because someone made sure I would die alone, now I want to DESTROY THE WORLD! Oh, no, I actually don't, I want to DESTROY THE MACHINE THAT CAN DESTROY THE WORLD. . . but in the meantime, I want to make everyone else suffer as well because no one understaaaands me, waaaaaa.
And yet everyone bends over backwards trying to "pull him out of his darkness" or whatever the FUCK it is they think is going on with him. RIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SHITTY HUMAN BEING, EVEN BEFORE HE HAD TO LIVE AS THE LAST MAN ALIVE!
Being an orphan does NOT justify his temperament, his shitty way of looking at other people. He had SO many people growing up who cared for him, he had SO many friends circling around him, but he always chose to create negative motives behind everyone around him when it's really just a reflection of his own mindset.
The way the story constantly pushes this redeeming arc on him is so frustrating, so forced, so underwhelming. Did y'all forget he-as-Shion RAPED Alice-slash-Mokuren? And then it was, like, brushed aside because Mokuren decided she loved him after all? Except secretly she didn't? Or did she? GOD FUCKING KNOWS because that's how unclear everything was. Not that it matters. He's a fucking rapist who tries to justify himself post-facto because he "wanted her to love him" or what-the-fuck-ever.
Rin-slash-Shion gave absolutely zero moments where they showed any signs they were capable of love, remorse, guilt, and yet we were forced to root for the characters who wanted to save him from this endless torture of hatred. He was made to suffer ZERO consequences, and in fact the only time he got what he deserved was when he was made to live the rest of his life alone on the literal fucking moon, surrounded by the dead bodies of his colleagues.
And finally, Alice.
What a waste of space.
Mokuren, the perfect little princess literally every guy falls in love with, SHE showed much more personality and gusto than the absolute passive push-over that was Alice. She did not push the story onwards, it was constant reaction after reaction of events. She was just so boring and dull, I couldn't wait to get through her chapters.
Unfortunately the more interesting characters were left to the backburners in preference for our two main leads: Rin-Shion and Alice-Mokuren. Out of those four, only Mokuren was tolerable and sometimes even fun to read.
Story: ☆☆
Art: ☆☆☆
What on earth are y'all smoking and where can I get some of that. I've gotten lord knows how many recommendations for this series and I just. don't. see it. It started off well enough, so I can appreciate the high-ish ratings for the first few volumes, but it only gets worse and I don't know where it went wrong.
First of all, nope. NOPE. BIG FAT NOPE to all of you falling for the "romance" and tryna tell me but it's the spiiiiirit of a full-grown man in the bodyyyyyy of an eight year old booooyy.
NOPE. Get your crack away from me. Rin is an eight year old child and this story trying to posit him as the romantic lead because his memories are that of a 20-something year old man . . . and y'all falling for it?? I mean. Gross. Go out to your closest schoolyard. Look around at those eight year old boys. Are you seriously telling me you can believably imagine him and even support the idea of that kid as a romantic lead, engaged with a 16/17 year old female?
You gonna tell me if one of them turned out to be a child prodigy, smarter than any guy your own age, you could see yourself romantically falling for that kid?
If your answer to any of those question is yes, then perhaps you should stay away from any schoolyards.
Second of all, Rin is an irredeemable, shit-stirrer of a character. Every wrong and bad thing that happens in this series is a product of his own . . . his own . . . what? Boredom? He has no motive behind anything!
Woe is me I was the last human alive, suffering in loneliness because someone made sure I would die alone, now I want to DESTROY THE WORLD! Oh, no, I actually don't, I want to DESTROY THE MACHINE THAT CAN DESTROY THE WORLD. . . but in the meantime, I want to make everyone else suffer as well because no one understaaaands me, waaaaaa.
And yet everyone bends over backwards trying to "pull him out of his darkness" or whatever the FUCK it is they think is going on with him. RIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SHITTY HUMAN BEING, EVEN BEFORE HE HAD TO LIVE AS THE LAST MAN ALIVE!
Being an orphan does NOT justify his temperament, his shitty way of looking at other people. He had SO many people growing up who cared for him, he had SO many friends circling around him, but he always chose to create negative motives behind everyone around him when it's really just a reflection of his own mindset.
The way the story constantly pushes this redeeming arc on him is so frustrating, so forced, so underwhelming. Did y'all forget he-as-Shion RAPED Alice-slash-Mokuren? And then it was, like, brushed aside because Mokuren decided she loved him after all? Except secretly she didn't? Or did she? GOD FUCKING KNOWS because that's how unclear everything was. Not that it matters. He's a fucking rapist who tries to justify himself post-facto because he "wanted her to love him" or what-the-fuck-ever.
Rin-slash-Shion gave absolutely zero moments where they showed any signs they were capable of love, remorse, guilt, and yet we were forced to root for the characters who wanted to save him from this endless torture of hatred. He was made to suffer ZERO consequences, and in fact the only time he got what he deserved was when he was made to live the rest of his life alone on the literal fucking moon, surrounded by the dead bodies of his colleagues.
And finally, Alice.
What a waste of space.
Mokuren, the perfect little princess literally every guy falls in love with, SHE showed much more personality and gusto than the absolute passive push-over that was Alice. She did not push the story onwards, it was constant reaction after reaction of events. She was just so boring and dull, I couldn't wait to get through her chapters.
Unfortunately the more interesting characters were left to the backburners in preference for our two main leads: Rin-Shion and Alice-Mokuren. Out of those four, only Mokuren was tolerable and sometimes even fun to read.
February 24, 2022
Very interesting concept. To think that this has been released since 1987 is just amazing?! Woah. My respect. First impression for manga is important hence, I would like to praise a lot for the first volume.
It was very interesting from the start until the end, i don't know about the upcoming volume yet. Hopefully it will stay interesting until the final chapter. This manga telling us the story of Arisu who just move from Hokkaido to Tokyo. She have a hard time to adjust herself to the new environment. Arisu have a special talents, which is she can hear and talk with plant and animals (which make her really different).
The plot sound simple but when you start to read it, it was quite complicated. I find it confusing at first then I realised this manga revolved around dreams and reincarnation. At least that's how it seems to me. Arisu meet the two guys whom she misunderstand as a gay couple but only to find out that they were discussing their dream. 'The connecting dreams'. But those dreams may be a key to Arisu’s and Rin’s lives which related to both of their pasts and their futures.
The dream is about a seven scientist who want to save their earth. We don't know much about their mission and their story started yet, but it enough to make me want to know more. I'm still trying to get used to their name too, as it was hard to remember lmao.
Overall, its a unique, refreshing manga to read. I know this anime adaptation (an ova consists of 6 episodes), but I would finish this manga first and watch the anime adaptation. Looking forward how the story will progressed.
4 star for Volumes 1 ⭐
It was very interesting from the start until the end, i don't know about the upcoming volume yet. Hopefully it will stay interesting until the final chapter. This manga telling us the story of Arisu who just move from Hokkaido to Tokyo. She have a hard time to adjust herself to the new environment. Arisu have a special talents, which is she can hear and talk with plant and animals (which make her really different).
The plot sound simple but when you start to read it, it was quite complicated. I find it confusing at first then I realised this manga revolved around dreams and reincarnation. At least that's how it seems to me. Arisu meet the two guys whom she misunderstand as a gay couple but only to find out that they were discussing their dream. 'The connecting dreams'. But those dreams may be a key to Arisu’s and Rin’s lives which related to both of their pasts and their futures.
The dream is about a seven scientist who want to save their earth. We don't know much about their mission and their story started yet, but it enough to make me want to know more. I'm still trying to get used to their name too, as it was hard to remember lmao.
Overall, its a unique, refreshing manga to read. I know this anime adaptation (an ova consists of 6 episodes), but I would finish this manga first and watch the anime adaptation. Looking forward how the story will progressed.
4 star for Volumes 1 ⭐
March 2, 2016
I've read the whole series. Not sure how available the English version is at this time, but if you spot it (possibly at used-books stores), grab all the volumes you can! Especially if you like soft sic-fi.
The series were drawn over the years, so the pictures change--I prefer the cleaner renditions of the earlier part of the story--but overall, quite nice. The plot is compelling and psychologically intriguing. The characters are adorable without being shallow.
The series were drawn over the years, so the pictures change--I prefer the cleaner renditions of the earlier part of the story--but overall, quite nice. The plot is compelling and psychologically intriguing. The characters are adorable without being shallow.
June 24, 2008
I think this one might actually be a re-read from a few years ago, as I kinda remember some of it. At any rate, this is a shojo with fantastic elements, as Alice, a girl who may be more than she appears, tries hard to fit in to her new school and new city, with a horrible brat of a kid living nearby. The brat, however, seems destined to play a bigger part in Alice's life than she'd like, setting up the things to come...
Alice is so pathetic as a character that I had a hard time getting into this one and the fantastic elements are more confusing than helpful right now. It seems like there are too many things going on in volume one for the reader to be able to process them properly. I will, however, keep reading a bit and see how things go. (Librar, 06/08)
Trebby's Take: Jury's still out on this one, read if you're curious or have heard good things.
Alice is so pathetic as a character that I had a hard time getting into this one and the fantastic elements are more confusing than helpful right now. It seems like there are too many things going on in volume one for the reader to be able to process them properly. I will, however, keep reading a bit and see how things go. (Librar, 06/08)
Trebby's Take: Jury's still out on this one, read if you're curious or have heard good things.
May 9, 2014
SIGH
I would have read all of you but you went out of print and are about impossible to find! I loved what I read, though.
I would have read all of you but you went out of print and are about impossible to find! I loved what I read, though.
November 30, 2024
A found a few this volumes down years back but they have just been standing in my bookshelf until now. I think I wanted to save them for a special occasion, as I often do and then end up not always getting around to it.
And I have to say that I really loved this concept, it felt very fresh even tough it is from the 80's quite progressive too.
Can't wait to see how this will unravel.
And I have to say that I really loved this concept, it felt very fresh even tough it is from the 80's quite progressive too.
Can't wait to see how this will unravel.
April 5, 2025
¡Qué locura! Increíble manga ♡
April 6, 2010
I've read this whole series now, so I'm putting my review on vol. 1 instead of rating each individually. PSME alternates between being absolutely riveting and being sort of slow and clunky. It has a much more complex plot than most manga I read (I can only think of a few that are as or more complicated than this one), and you often find yourself frantic at the end of a volume to get your hands on the next one. However, as things get explained, they get less interesting...then there's a new surprise, and you're into it again, but then...you find out the answer and it's not as exciting as you'd hoped. I also thought the ending fell pretty flat, considering the huge buildup to the climax.
Overall I would say it is a very interesting series with not a lot of re-read value (for me - I know there is a large fanbase of people who can read it over and over looking for new things). At 21 volumes, with several out of print and hard to find, it's probably not one I would buy - but if you can find it at a library, or in a big lot on eBay or something, I would definitely recommend giving it a read.
Overall I would say it is a very interesting series with not a lot of re-read value (for me - I know there is a large fanbase of people who can read it over and over looking for new things). At 21 volumes, with several out of print and hard to find, it's probably not one I would buy - but if you can find it at a library, or in a big lot on eBay or something, I would definitely recommend giving it a read.
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December 29, 2025Splendid. The central conceit is engrossing and utterly compelling — and things are only just getting started!
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July 27, 2012
I first became aware of "Please Save My Earth" when the beautiful and subtle 6 episode mini-series ran on a local PBS station in the late 1990s. The series relied on softness, on understatement and implication, which served to enhance the brief moments of action and revelation. It also dealt with themes one rarely expects to encounter, even in Japanese television. The only problem I ever had with the anime was that it ended so abruptly, seemingly mid-story, with a strange and incomprehensible series of images set to a recited poem -- this seemed intended to resolve the rest of the story, but it really only made me scratch my head in bewilderment and made everyone I showed it to say "Bazzuh?!?" It wasn't until a year or so later that I learned the show was an adaptation of a 1980s manga series, and that this incomprehensible finale was actually a montage of images from the manga original rendered in the style of the anime.
Now, after years, I have finally got my hands on translated copies of the manga! They're a bit battered, purchased used on eBay, but they're mine! Mine! Mine! And as it turns out, the manga is very different -- especially in terms of tone and characterization. This volume seems to have been the basis for the first episode (though I may have to re-watch the series to confirm that), yet all the polish of the anime is absent here. The pacing is off, the protagonists are annoying and poorly-defined, and the artist's style is very much a product of mid-1980s Japan. There are brief moments, brief scenes, which carry the feelings and artistry so perfectly captured by the anime, but based on the artist's notes in this volume she was deliberately trying to stretch and challenge herself by doing something unlike anything she had previously done -- and it shows. The manga shifts abruptly from what we might today call "emo" scenes to scenes of sheer goofiness to quality scenes which seem to carry sparks or seeds of the anime I love so much. The art is sometimes reminiscent of "Dragonball Z" or "Doraemon", sometimes reminiscent of "Neon Genesis: Evangelion" or "Mononoke Hime".
I'll keep reading, both because I hold out hope that the artist decided what she wanted this series to be before too many issues had elapsed, and because I want to know what finally becomes of the characters and what the strange images from the anime finale's montage are referencing. Overall, I'd probably just give this 2 stars; the extra star I'm giving it now is purely based on my knowledge of what is to come and the importance of this "set-up" volume for the rest of the narrative.
Now, after years, I have finally got my hands on translated copies of the manga! They're a bit battered, purchased used on eBay, but they're mine! Mine! Mine! And as it turns out, the manga is very different -- especially in terms of tone and characterization. This volume seems to have been the basis for the first episode (though I may have to re-watch the series to confirm that), yet all the polish of the anime is absent here. The pacing is off, the protagonists are annoying and poorly-defined, and the artist's style is very much a product of mid-1980s Japan. There are brief moments, brief scenes, which carry the feelings and artistry so perfectly captured by the anime, but based on the artist's notes in this volume she was deliberately trying to stretch and challenge herself by doing something unlike anything she had previously done -- and it shows. The manga shifts abruptly from what we might today call "emo" scenes to scenes of sheer goofiness to quality scenes which seem to carry sparks or seeds of the anime I love so much. The art is sometimes reminiscent of "Dragonball Z" or "Doraemon", sometimes reminiscent of "Neon Genesis: Evangelion" or "Mononoke Hime".
I'll keep reading, both because I hold out hope that the artist decided what she wanted this series to be before too many issues had elapsed, and because I want to know what finally becomes of the characters and what the strange images from the anime finale's montage are referencing. Overall, I'd probably just give this 2 stars; the extra star I'm giving it now is purely based on my knowledge of what is to come and the importance of this "set-up" volume for the rest of the narrative.
October 15, 2017
THE STORY IS SO MESSED UP!
First let's start with the first main character Alice who's a timid, quite, green-thumb and eccentric high-school girl. The story begins with her moving out to a new city and transferring to a new school. Everything seems normal so far until Rin,an 8-year-old boy, appears in the story. He keeps teasing Alice continuously and causing her lots of troubles. Even so, one day he claims that he's in love with Alice and that he wants them to be betrothed. (What the heck?!) their family's reaction looks as if there's nothing abnormal about an 8-year-old boy marrying to a 17-year-old girl. Rin's mother cried from joy... (something's not right here). Alice accepted the marriage because she felt guilty about the he-deserved-it accident. well, before Rin blurted out about his crush on Alice, Rin's mother had got Alice to babysit Rin.*pftt* However, things don't go well! He tells Alice that She's not a virgin and that She should not love anyone beside him. *bleh* Right after that He runs out to the balcony and sits on the fence. *Now he's being a spoiled brat* Alice comes toward him and slightly slaps him in the face. a very light one. But to my amazement (and also to Alice's) he falls down from the balcony. I said yay! she just got rid of the trouble and now the story is finished but wait that's not it. he turns out to be intact. but he goes to a coma which ends after a few days.... he wakes up energetically. I don't see why she felt guilty about him falling down, It was his fault for sitting there in the first place. Anyway Things get weirder and weirder afterward. til you ask yourself what's the purpose of this story anyway!? (well, at least I did) It's funny that all these things had nothing to do with "Saving the earth", the title.
Another thing is that more than half of the story takes place in characters' dreams. So basically They sleep like hell!(e.g 5 days a week)they might arouse but it doesn't take a minute til they go back to sleep again. There is a time that one of the characters sleeps 7 days and suddenly wakes up and blabber a bunch of gibberish then goes back to sleep. The rest of the story is meh.. A creepy harem over Makura,a lascivious and simple-headed female character, and her not-making-sense background story. She has so much in common with Alice (beside that Alice is her reincarnation). Makura is raped by one of the two-faced character called.. umm sorry I don't recall his name.. anyway the hilarious part is that She's thankful to him (O_o) for you know what. I mean come on! there is a limit for Jokes...
I seriously don't recommend it to anyone who can't tolerate nonsense.
First let's start with the first main character Alice who's a timid, quite, green-thumb and eccentric high-school girl. The story begins with her moving out to a new city and transferring to a new school. Everything seems normal so far until Rin,an 8-year-old boy, appears in the story. He keeps teasing Alice continuously and causing her lots of troubles. Even so, one day he claims that he's in love with Alice and that he wants them to be betrothed. (What the heck?!) their family's reaction looks as if there's nothing abnormal about an 8-year-old boy marrying to a 17-year-old girl. Rin's mother cried from joy... (something's not right here). Alice accepted the marriage because she felt guilty about the he-deserved-it accident. well, before Rin blurted out about his crush on Alice, Rin's mother had got Alice to babysit Rin.*pftt* However, things don't go well! He tells Alice that She's not a virgin and that She should not love anyone beside him. *bleh* Right after that He runs out to the balcony and sits on the fence. *Now he's being a spoiled brat* Alice comes toward him and slightly slaps him in the face. a very light one. But to my amazement (and also to Alice's) he falls down from the balcony. I said yay! she just got rid of the trouble and now the story is finished but wait that's not it. he turns out to be intact. but he goes to a coma which ends after a few days.... he wakes up energetically. I don't see why she felt guilty about him falling down, It was his fault for sitting there in the first place. Anyway Things get weirder and weirder afterward. til you ask yourself what's the purpose of this story anyway!? (well, at least I did) It's funny that all these things had nothing to do with "Saving the earth", the title.
Another thing is that more than half of the story takes place in characters' dreams. So basically They sleep like hell!(e.g 5 days a week)they might arouse but it doesn't take a minute til they go back to sleep again. There is a time that one of the characters sleeps 7 days and suddenly wakes up and blabber a bunch of gibberish then goes back to sleep. The rest of the story is meh.. A creepy harem over Makura,a lascivious and simple-headed female character, and her not-making-sense background story. She has so much in common with Alice (beside that Alice is her reincarnation). Makura is raped by one of the two-faced character called.. umm sorry I don't recall his name.. anyway the hilarious part is that She's thankful to him (O_o) for you know what. I mean come on! there is a limit for Jokes...
I seriously don't recommend it to anyone who can't tolerate nonsense.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 4, 2016
pas beberes rak komik karena ada rayap masuk :( aku menemukan koleksi komik ini.
dari awal cerita ini, yang bikin tertarik tentu saja, hubungan "terlarang" antara Alice (remaja perempuan yang baru pindah ke tokyo) dengan Rin (bocah laki laki tetangga Alice). sekilas terlihat cuman hubungan klise beda umur gitu, ternyata mba Saki memberikan twist, bahwa Rin dan Alice adalah salah satu reinkanarsi dari alien/orang non bumi.
terdengar klise ? eits jangan salah
mba saki membuat konflik yang berlapis lapis diantara para tokohnya. sebutlah Alice menemukan "teman" reinkanarsinya, yang kebetulan adalah teman sekelasnya sendiri. mulanya, mereka ini girang banget bahwa Alice salah satu dari mereka, krn reinkanarsi Alice adalah salah satu tokoh sentral. berbarengan lah mereka menyusun kronologis dari sejak pertama kehidupan mereka dulu bertemu satu sama lain hingga mereka meninggal.
tentu saja, cerita ini ga lengkap tanpa antagonis. ada "teman" mereka yang berusaha mencegah mereka mengingat masa lalu mereka. terlebih kepada Alice. karena berbeda dg lainnya yang mulai bermimpi kehidupan pertamanya sejak kecil, Alice hanya bermimpi 1 kali. itu pun Alice ga yakin bahwa dirinya adalah yang mereka kira.
romance nya, wooow.....sebutlah bukan instant lust. walaupun sejak pertama Rin lah yang menyukai Alice (dengan khas pendekatan kalau-kamu-suka-dia-ganggun-dia-sampai-menangis), well sebutlah Alice dan Rin punya romansa yang kompleks di kehidupan mereka sebelumnya.
ini nih yang bikin kepincut berat ama komik ini.
makanya "klik" baca ini justru pas udah gede, walaupun ngoleksinya udah dari jaman SMP.
berharap nya sih diterjemahkan ulang ama Elex, karena hampir sebagian menemukan terjemahannya kurang cocok dg yang di mangascan.
5 bintang
dari awal cerita ini, yang bikin tertarik tentu saja, hubungan "terlarang" antara Alice (remaja perempuan yang baru pindah ke tokyo) dengan Rin (bocah laki laki tetangga Alice). sekilas terlihat cuman hubungan klise beda umur gitu, ternyata mba Saki memberikan twist, bahwa Rin dan Alice adalah salah satu reinkanarsi dari alien/orang non bumi.
terdengar klise ? eits jangan salah
mba saki membuat konflik yang berlapis lapis diantara para tokohnya. sebutlah Alice menemukan "teman" reinkanarsinya, yang kebetulan adalah teman sekelasnya sendiri. mulanya, mereka ini girang banget bahwa Alice salah satu dari mereka, krn reinkanarsi Alice adalah salah satu tokoh sentral. berbarengan lah mereka menyusun kronologis dari sejak pertama kehidupan mereka dulu bertemu satu sama lain hingga mereka meninggal.
tentu saja, cerita ini ga lengkap tanpa antagonis. ada "teman" mereka yang berusaha mencegah mereka mengingat masa lalu mereka. terlebih kepada Alice. karena berbeda dg lainnya yang mulai bermimpi kehidupan pertamanya sejak kecil, Alice hanya bermimpi 1 kali. itu pun Alice ga yakin bahwa dirinya adalah yang mereka kira.
romance nya, wooow.....sebutlah bukan instant lust. walaupun sejak pertama Rin lah yang menyukai Alice (dengan khas pendekatan kalau-kamu-suka-dia-ganggun-dia-sampai-menangis), well sebutlah Alice dan Rin punya romansa yang kompleks di kehidupan mereka sebelumnya.
ini nih yang bikin kepincut berat ama komik ini.
makanya "klik" baca ini justru pas udah gede, walaupun ngoleksinya udah dari jaman SMP.
berharap nya sih diterjemahkan ulang ama Elex, karena hampir sebagian menemukan terjemahannya kurang cocok dg yang di mangascan.
5 bintang
September 20, 2025
An awesome opening to a really great manga (that I first read back in high school). The concept is fascinating, and I'd love to read the end of it. Unfortunately, the series is hard to find these days, and the anime is unfinished. The whole story just works so well - all except Rin, unfortunately, who is just insufferable. Alas. Alice and Mokuren are just so great!
May 25, 2008
Terrific '80s shojo manga series (21 volumes total); it's the story that got me hooked on manga in the first place. ^_^
September 28, 2008
One of my favorite manga series!
October 1, 2023
2.5
Too confusing to be a 3 just yet. I'm intrigued by the dreams though so might carry it on.
Video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T5p2...
Too confusing to be a 3 just yet. I'm intrigued by the dreams though so might carry it on.
Video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T5p2...
January 16, 2019
*this is for the whole series, but no spoilers. From my old blog*
I dunno how many of you out there know about Please Save My Earth, I expect not many unless you're into 90's shoujo, considering the age of this series. Well, I'm here to try to change that and make you read it! ~(＾◇^)/
Simply put, because of its age, this series does have some flaws in the art department. At times you can tell it's both old and wasn't very good/was still rough, but the characters and story far than make up for it. But the art does improve as time goes on, so it's a great to watch a mangaka grow, so props to Saki Hiwatari for improving!
This isn't a typical love story. I'm not even sure if it's a love story, so much as it happens to have some romance. The MC, Alice, is a young girl of 16 that starts having dreams in space with people she does not know. From there it quickly evolves into being one of the most compelling shoujos I've ever read, rivaled only by X/1999 from CLAMP in terms of content and handling of it. Do beware this series will fuck with your feelings!
I'm not about to spoil, mostly because I don't remember everything 100% and this is one of the series I can't reread because it's too deeply inside me, just like Alive - The Final Evolution, another manga that I do want to talk about but it's hard for me to.
Safe to say that this manga has characters just like I love them: realistic, human, flawed, make mistakes and can be stupid, naive and will get punished for it, but never in a mean sort of way. In fact, I found it tackled a lot of subjects I wasn't expecting, and one of the main casts is even gay.
Aside the characters, what I love loved about this was how the plot was so well thought out, and introduced. Mysteries start small and grow, evolving to big proportions, until finally it culminates into one of the most gripping climaxes I've experienced. I was crying by the end of this manga, I was so very touched by the sacrifice and pain and heart of these characters, how could I not?
/sighs lovingly
The ending is hopeful, and feels like a big warm hug after a tough fight of epic proportions, and I could not be happier that this series exists. It's a pity more people don't know it, and it got a pretty heavily condensed OVA that did not make it justice. If I could campaign for a series to get an anime adaptation, this would be the one!
Well, and After School Nightmare...and a lot of others, but you get my feelings! （＾＿－）≡★
I'll say this also covers a very interesting Sci-Fi element that I do not usually see in shoujo, and it's superb.
If you like a good plot heavy series, with good characters that grow and learn and evolve, then definitely pick this one a go! Plus the romance was both tragic and so sweet, how could anyone not like this???! Get on it! ヽ(*⌒∇⌒*)ﾉ
I dunno how many of you out there know about Please Save My Earth, I expect not many unless you're into 90's shoujo, considering the age of this series. Well, I'm here to try to change that and make you read it! ~(＾◇^)/
Simply put, because of its age, this series does have some flaws in the art department. At times you can tell it's both old and wasn't very good/was still rough, but the characters and story far than make up for it. But the art does improve as time goes on, so it's a great to watch a mangaka grow, so props to Saki Hiwatari for improving!
This isn't a typical love story. I'm not even sure if it's a love story, so much as it happens to have some romance. The MC, Alice, is a young girl of 16 that starts having dreams in space with people she does not know. From there it quickly evolves into being one of the most compelling shoujos I've ever read, rivaled only by X/1999 from CLAMP in terms of content and handling of it. Do beware this series will fuck with your feelings!
I'm not about to spoil, mostly because I don't remember everything 100% and this is one of the series I can't reread because it's too deeply inside me, just like Alive - The Final Evolution, another manga that I do want to talk about but it's hard for me to.
Safe to say that this manga has characters just like I love them: realistic, human, flawed, make mistakes and can be stupid, naive and will get punished for it, but never in a mean sort of way. In fact, I found it tackled a lot of subjects I wasn't expecting, and one of the main casts is even gay.
Aside the characters, what I love loved about this was how the plot was so well thought out, and introduced. Mysteries start small and grow, evolving to big proportions, until finally it culminates into one of the most gripping climaxes I've experienced. I was crying by the end of this manga, I was so very touched by the sacrifice and pain and heart of these characters, how could I not?
/sighs lovingly
The ending is hopeful, and feels like a big warm hug after a tough fight of epic proportions, and I could not be happier that this series exists. It's a pity more people don't know it, and it got a pretty heavily condensed OVA that did not make it justice. If I could campaign for a series to get an anime adaptation, this would be the one!
Well, and After School Nightmare...and a lot of others, but you get my feelings! （＾＿－）≡★
I'll say this also covers a very interesting Sci-Fi element that I do not usually see in shoujo, and it's superb.
If you like a good plot heavy series, with good characters that grow and learn and evolve, then definitely pick this one a go! Plus the romance was both tragic and so sweet, how could anyone not like this???! Get on it! ヽ(*⌒∇⌒*)ﾉ
May 14, 2018
Một cuốn manga cũ xì, nhìn thì có vẻ bánh bèo và drama đến dã man rùng rợn nhưng nó là nguồn sống của mình trong mấy tuần liền.
Lần đầu tiên mình đọc hình như là khoảng năm lớp 3, lúc đó bản tiếng Việt có tên là "SOS Trái Đất". Đọc chắc được chừng 2 tập, không rõ là bao nhiêu chap. Giờ mình đọc lại thì là đọc bản tiếng Anh, và cũng mất 1 khoảng thời gian kha khá để mình nhớ tên để lục tìm.
Lý do khiến mình bao nhiêu năm trời vẫn cố tìm để mà đọc vì mình thấy khá đồng cảm với nữ chính. Mình vẫn nhớ cảm giác lần đầu tiên đọc trên bản tiếng Việt, khi nữ chính bảo "Mình muốn trở về". Không một câu nào có thể diễn tả tốt hơn tâm trạng của mình lúc đó, mặc dù mình, cũng giống như nữ chính, không biết trở về là về đâu, chỉ biết cảm giác nhà của mình đã từng ở "đâu đó".
Tất nhiên sau đó nữ chính đã nhớ được kiếp sống trước kia của mình (e hèm, thật sự đọc rồi cũng không thấy nó drama như mấy phim xuyên không của Trung Quốc lắm đâu), và có thể hiểu được cảm giác nhớ nhà đó. Nhưng mình thì vẫn chưa nhớ được gì cả :)))) (mình tin thuyết luân hồi nhưng không lên tiếng ủng hộ nó ở đây đâu nhé, chỉ là muốn nói về một cảm giác luôn ám ảnh mình mà mình không thể giải thích tại sao thôi).
Quay trở về truyện một chút. Tất nhiên câu truyện không hẳn là về việc tìm kiếm kiếp trước, mà còn là cách mà mình đối diện với thực tại, cả cách tha thứ cho quá khứ nữa. Nhiều mâu thuẫn trong truyện cũng bắt nguồn từ những nhận định được đúc kết quá sớm, những cố chấp mà con người ta cứ khư khư giữ lấy, cho là "người khác không thể hiểu được tôi". Nhưng cuối cùng thì con người cũng phải học cách tha thứ và chấp nhận. Nghe như một vùng trời đạo đức nhưng đọc thì không khô khan cứng nhắc lắm đâu.
Mình cũng khá thích nét vẽ của tác giả, thích tới nổi mà giờ mình cũng bắt chước mấy nhân vật bỏ áo vào quần luôn rồi :))))
Lần đầu tiên mình đọc hình như là khoảng năm lớp 3, lúc đó bản tiếng Việt có tên là "SOS Trái Đất". Đọc chắc được chừng 2 tập, không rõ là bao nhiêu chap. Giờ mình đọc lại thì là đọc bản tiếng Anh, và cũng mất 1 khoảng thời gian kha khá để mình nhớ tên để lục tìm.
Lý do khiến mình bao nhiêu năm trời vẫn cố tìm để mà đọc vì mình thấy khá đồng cảm với nữ chính. Mình vẫn nhớ cảm giác lần đầu tiên đọc trên bản tiếng Việt, khi nữ chính bảo "Mình muốn trở về". Không một câu nào có thể diễn tả tốt hơn tâm trạng của mình lúc đó, mặc dù mình, cũng giống như nữ chính, không biết trở về là về đâu, chỉ biết cảm giác nhà của mình đã từng ở "đâu đó".
Tất nhiên sau đó nữ chính đã nhớ được kiếp sống trước kia của mình (e hèm, thật sự đọc rồi cũng không thấy nó drama như mấy phim xuyên không của Trung Quốc lắm đâu), và có thể hiểu được cảm giác nhớ nhà đó. Nhưng mình thì vẫn chưa nhớ được gì cả :)))) (mình tin thuyết luân hồi nhưng không lên tiếng ủng hộ nó ở đây đâu nhé, chỉ là muốn nói về một cảm giác luôn ám ảnh mình mà mình không thể giải thích tại sao thôi).
Quay trở về truyện một chút. Tất nhiên câu truyện không hẳn là về việc tìm kiếm kiếp trước, mà còn là cách mà mình đối diện với thực tại, cả cách tha thứ cho quá khứ nữa. Nhiều mâu thuẫn trong truyện cũng bắt nguồn từ những nhận định được đúc kết quá sớm, những cố chấp mà con người ta cứ khư khư giữ lấy, cho là "người khác không thể hiểu được tôi". Nhưng cuối cùng thì con người cũng phải học cách tha thứ và chấp nhận. Nghe như một vùng trời đạo đức nhưng đọc thì không khô khan cứng nhắc lắm đâu.
Mình cũng khá thích nét vẽ của tác giả, thích tới nổi mà giờ mình cũng bắt chước mấy nhân vật bỏ áo vào quần luôn rồi :))))
September 1, 2022
4.5 o 7,5 o 8/10
:0 ehhhh...pasaron cosas
Pasaron muuuchas cosas, es más, la trama como que cambió como 30 veces a lo largo del tomo, y la verdad que me dejó re intrigada! PERO NOSE SI PODRÉ CONSEGUIR EL RESTO DE TOMOS! :,,,,(
El dibujo no es nada del otro mundo pero el manejo de las viñetas está muy bien usado, por momentos me recordó a cómo lo usan las Clamp los personajes no son muy allá, pero esta bien caracterizados y los identificas rápido. Es un manga ,por ahora, diferente a lo que se veía en la época, aunque igual: Ser de la comunidad LGBT+ es completamente normal. Ya ahora tener sueños conectados místicos con tu pana pos eso si no es muy normal uwu. Y por eso niños no hay que consumir drogas ahre cualquiera XD.
:0 ehhhh...pasaron cosas
Pasaron muuuchas cosas, es más, la trama como que cambió como 30 veces a lo largo del tomo, y la verdad que me dejó re intrigada! PERO NOSE SI PODRÉ CONSEGUIR EL RESTO DE TOMOS! :,,,,(
El dibujo no es nada del otro mundo pero el manejo de las viñetas está muy bien usado, por momentos me recordó a cómo lo usan las Clamp los personajes no son muy allá, pero esta bien caracterizados y los identificas rápido. Es un manga ,por ahora, diferente a lo que se veía en la época, aunque igual: Ser de la comunidad LGBT+ es completamente normal. Ya ahora tener sueños conectados místicos con tu pana pos eso si no es muy normal uwu. Y por eso niños no hay que consumir drogas ahre cualquiera XD.
June 27, 2017
The story starts a little slow as we meet Alice, a girl who truly doesn't eat enough, who has a kind of sad and lonely life. Her own family pays little attention to her, with the exception of occasionally from her brother). Yet she can have complete and entire conversations with trees and plants.
I liked the premise and the introduction of some of her classmates at the end of the book. While the environmental message can be a little overwhelming at times, there seems to be a setup for an interesting story overall that we were just getting to at the end. I really would like to read more and see where this goes from there.
I liked the premise and the introduction of some of her classmates at the end of the book. While the environmental message can be a little overwhelming at times, there seems to be a setup for an interesting story overall that we were just getting to at the end. I really would like to read more and see where this goes from there.
December 2, 2021
I started this series based off this one video that compared it to neon genesis evangelion. I honestly still don't see as to why these would correlate but nonetheless I am enjoying this series immensely. I'm currently on the third volume after only a few days of getting into the story. There are parts in the plot that made me actually laugh out loud, but I would say the thing I loved maybe just a little bit more than this fact is the way it is drawn out. Sometimes distinguishing the characters is still hard sometimes but I love the 90’s style of it. I would definitely recommend reading it instead of watching it because the show skips over a bunch of parts, but again I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys shoujo manga with sci-fi to it.
February 17, 2023
4/5 stars. Reread 2023: I started reading this when it was first published in English and reread it a few times (the volumes I had). It was a unique melodrama sci-fi story that had me entranced. This reread had me charmed with nostalgia, and intrigued to see what I remembered and what I didn't. I really like the main character, Alice. And, I like the writing the mangaka does on the side columes. The story and art work well together, and it feels very much like an 80s/90s sci-fi story. I love it.
September 25, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.
Wow. That was amazing. This series is unlike any other that I have read and it is wonderful.
It does have its flaws, like how the protagonist is annoying in the beginning and the ending is a bit questionable, but I love it nonetheless. It was emotional and heartbreakingly beautiful. My favorite part of this series is the world-building and how mystical yet gritty everything seems.
Wonderful series, definitely a favorite.
Wow. That was amazing. This series is unlike any other that I have read and it is wonderful.
It does have its flaws, like how the protagonist is annoying in the beginning and the ending is a bit questionable, but I love it nonetheless. It was emotional and heartbreakingly beautiful. My favorite part of this series is the world-building and how mystical yet gritty everything seems.
Wonderful series, definitely a favorite.
February 6, 2021
Engaging
I watched the anime back in the day and it was a 6 or 8 part series. I can't remember. Never got to read the manga until now. It is really good. The story is engaging and there so far were a few plot points left out. I feel like Alice (the main character) is more fleshed out. There are longer explanations and character traits of other characters, which is nice. Can't wait to read Book #2.
I watched the anime back in the day and it was a 6 or 8 part series. I can't remember. Never got to read the manga until now. It is really good. The story is engaging and there so far were a few plot points left out. I feel like Alice (the main character) is more fleshed out. There are longer explanations and character traits of other characters, which is nice. Can't wait to read Book #2.
June 21, 2023
I'm intrigued.
The more I was reading, the more I got curious. It started off a bit slow, but it definitely caught my attention midway through this volume and I wanted to know more and more.
'Reincarnation' is one of my favorite tropes. I'm not sure yet if this series has it, but that's what I thought it's happening at first. It could be parallel universe instead, who knows? I can't wait to find out!
The more I was reading, the more I got curious. It started off a bit slow, but it definitely caught my attention midway through this volume and I wanted to know more and more.
'Reincarnation' is one of my favorite tropes. I'm not sure yet if this series has it, but that's what I thought it's happening at first. It could be parallel universe instead, who knows? I can't wait to find out!
May 19, 2024
4.5
amazing story. amazing characters. amazing art. amazing pacing. has some problematic stuff (like, a lot), but it still manages to hold its own even with so many problems. hooked me from the very first page. it probably has my favorite paneling out of everything i’ve read. i would’ve rated higher but i hated the ending of each character to the point where i dont even want to acknowledge the ending lmao (like cmon, issei and sakura? that’s a fag and his hag)
amazing story. amazing characters. amazing art. amazing pacing. has some problematic stuff (like, a lot), but it still manages to hold its own even with so many problems. hooked me from the very first page. it probably has my favorite paneling out of everything i’ve read. i would’ve rated higher but i hated the ending of each character to the point where i dont even want to acknowledge the ending lmao (like cmon, issei and sakura? that’s a fag and his hag)
April 21, 2022
I never knew this manga existed until I came across it on tiktok and I instantly fell in love with the cover. The plot was a little confusing for me, but it appears to be about this girl named Alice who finds out that her two classmates have been dreaming of the same alternate universe and something about saving the earth. I love the dream-like space aesthetic of this story.
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