This volume recovered from the last one and was much more interesting.
Ryang, ends up helping his friends try and win a skateboarding contest and accidently creates 3 evil affinities, lucky Fanta's brother Pain is around to lend a hand. He also seems keen on Ryang and I have a feeling he will ask for a favour in return at some point ;)
Still 3 evil affinities is not so bad, as later in the book, he creates a whole room of them!
The fourth volume in the Faeries' Landing series revolves around our main hero, Ryang, helping out his school's skateboarding club during an upcoming rivalry match with another club. Even though Ryang hasn't skateboarded in like years, and isn't very good. The consequences if they lose however are the disbandment of the club! When Fanta and Ryang get into a fight, Ryang is on his own and left to deal with three evil affinities who are scheduled to pop up during the match!
The story of how I ended up getting my hands on the fourth volume of this series is pretty simple. I won an auction of a pack of various manga volumes. This was one of them. In spite of having never read this series, and starting with the fourth one, however, I have to admit the story isn't too hard to get into. It's one of those easy going shojos with a pretty basic and repetitive plots, and lots of almost romantic moments that enable you to jump into without knowing too much of the previous arcs/story.
So this volume was mostly just fun, and filler? (I don't really know since I have only read this one, but it seems like filler to me). The overall storyline really starts (from what I could gather from the manga and wiki) with Ryang's adventures in the fairy realm, and his decision to peek at a few fairies swimming. He, naturally gets caught, and is cursed with having a 100 evil affinities (100 girls who will fall in love with him, go crazy, and get super duper powerful-or their bfs/crushes, not sure-and then attack him). Fanta, a girl fairy, is sent to help and warn him in this romantic comedy. In this volume, we deal with pretty typical stuff in shojo. A fight between the hero and heroine, comic situation gets out of hand, new characters get introduction, reconciliation between the two love birds.
The art is pretty nice, and does a good job in keeping that fairy tale feel to the story. It's got that everyone's pretty sort of look to it that fits well in the genre, but does well for showing those action scenes.
All in all, cute. But sadly not a series I will continue to follow (except perhaps online) since it's out of print, cancelled, and there's like 20+ volumes. 3/5