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Dolls, Vol. 1

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I picked up this series because I read the description on the publisher's site and it sounded intriguing. Sure enough, it was. First, I was immediately drawn into the beautiful cover art. As I read it, I thought how... strange it was! The dolls are called "plant dolls," which are living girl dolls who drink milk three times a week and a sugar cookie once a week, and they choose their owners. If they are not well taken care of, they either wilt or become an "adult."

The owner of the doll shop kind of reminds me of Count D from Pet Shop of Horrors, and the concept of the story is a little similar as well, except replacng pets with dolls. It is also a little similiar to Doll, a manga about artificial intelligence dolls, except these dolls are much different, and much stranger.

I reccommend taking a look into this unique series. Its short stories range from touching to entertaining to sad. I think there's only four volumes of this series. Dolls will certainly be a new part of my manga collection. :)

I started reading this manga at Borders, and I like it a lot.
It's about a shop in Chinatown that sells living plant dolls, but the owners must follow very specific instructions. Of course, they don't usually do too well. I can't remember too well, but I think most of the stories have happy endings.

The art is pretty, especially the dolls. It's keeps you interested.

This series reminds me a lot of "Pet Shop of Horrors". If you like that one, you'll probably like this too.

I'm a huge fan of manga and anime, and I have to say that this is hands-down my favorite manga I've ever read. I've read and reread the entire series multiple times, and I'm always hoping I'll find a new volume, even though I'm pretty sure I own all of them. If you're even considering checking this series out, do it.

However, I feel that I should mention this: Amazon seems to think that Dolls, by Yumiko Kawahara, is the same series as Doll, by Mitsukazu Mihara, and they are not even remotely similar. Buy Yumiko Kawahara's Dolls.

I picked this up when I picked up the manga series "Doll" by Mihara. Interestingly enough, the two mangas have almost the exact same premise. However, Mihara's series treats the subject in much more interesting and thoughful ways. I found this manga to be rather boring.