Aquadom
Last night I read the first 2 volumes of this manga and in the morning I read the last 2 aswell.
I was looking at myanimelist.net and got irritated because they said it was a Shounen-ai , which I disagree with.
So I decided to add a short review, not with to much information, but just to object to the Shounen-ai part.
http://myanimelist.net/manga/2427/Aquadom
Surely, I agree that the cover makes it seem kinda Shounen-ai'ish, but as I said in my review, it was just two brothers being very close with each other XD
Oh, and if you check out the link, you see that the volume cover is for volume 4 (-the last volume) and one of the guys is the main character, but the other one isn't the brother, but.....well it's a spoiler, so don't read if you don't want to find out:
--The other soul which had reside inside the main characters body since birth- the real prince for the other world. Later they find his real body and the princes's soul is transfered to that one. At first he has long hair, but he cut's it by the last chapter, making him look identical to the main character.---
Plot Summary: Tastumi is a normal boy going to school and living with his strict older brother. Orphaned at a young age, his brother has been both a mother and a father to him. One day, he and his friends are about to rescue a beautiful girl from being harrassed when she beats them up herself. When she sees Tatsumi, she suddenly calls him "Rui".
First of all, this manga may have had elements of shounen-ai, but that was purely a deep brothership and nothingless.
It wasn't as much fantasy as I had hoped, since the other world had a high level of technology and the clothes weren't different from regular clothes.
But it had some interesting factors, such as adding artificial humans and a half human/half beast guy in the story (also very nice drawn).
The art was well done, but I found it lacking on emotions. What was more to my liking was the layout. It really showed that the mangaka knew what she was doing, using the right and different angles without over using any.
It was probably my biggest enjoyment with the manga.
In conclusion; this is a manga for anyone who just wants to read a manga without getting too into it. I can say that the fact that I wasn't expecting anything from it, made it more interesting when some good parts happend.
Oh, and since I couldn't add it with the rewiev before, here is the half human/ half beast guy - Jango ^^
Oh, I almost forgot something important- since I point out that this is the most important thing in the manga all the time...who my favorite character was XDD
hmm, actually, I didn't have anyone,lol, but I guess I was roting for the big brother. I liked how he as a magican of age 12 was handed the soul of the prince and alone travelled to our world. He even gave up his own body, so he could become the main characters big brother. ( He found it by a car accident)
But I thought that the coolest guy in the manga was the evil guy (picture below), I mean just look:
Long hair + eyepatch <3 ^w^.....but still, it was like picking the favorite from a bunch of stuff you had no real interest in, making it seem like you had an interest in, when you in fact didn't...kinda ^^;;;;
