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Legal Drug, Vol. 2

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This new manga from the Genius of Clamp is..well..strange. I can't decide if I love it or hate it. I have read both the first and second volume and have found no answers yet to any of the mysteries presented in the book. True it's still too early for the Clamp team to be giving any answers...but I WANT TO KNOW!!! This IS what Clamp does best.
The series starts out slow. It's about two boys-Kazahya and Rikuo-who work in a drug store for a mysterious man named Kakei. Kakei sends the boys on side jobs of retreiving items. Sounds easy right? Wrong. The side jobs are never what they seem and often lead the boys to get into some pretty strange situations... But hey I'd do it too if I needed the money! *winks* There is also another character named Saiga. He works at the drug store too. Well I don't know if you would call sleeping all day really working...but he is more involved in this story than the good people at Clamp are letting on.. and he also seems to have a "special" relationship with Kakei*grins* I recommend it because it's classic Clamp but with a twist!

Now, I dont really like and of the manga Tokyo Pop pulls through to the US mostly because of the translateing job they do. I must say though, Legal Drug is an impressive breakthrough. It's become one of my favriot manga that I have collected over the years and it's one of the best shonen ai products that have been imported to the US. It wasen't obvious in the first manga what was going on other than the speical abilitys the boys have. The hinting of Saiga and Kakei was pretty good too. Unlike Gravitation and other such titles, the hinting wasen't layed on too thick, I think. Untill this novel, I thought it was going to be normal and no more hinting would be thrown in. I was wrong! =) I love all the shonen ai titles and have become a collecter of them for about two years, and I have to say Legal Drug has just that right amount of everything thats hard to get in todays socity. Mystery and prophaganda were iminant by just reading the title of this manga, but I never thought it would be this good. It's deffinately worth the read.