St. Lunatic High School (Yoru nimo Makezu!) Volume 1 (Paperback)

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From Publishers Weekly

Niko Kanzaki and her brother, Atchan, are just scraping by, so when Atchan gets an offer to work as a teacher at the prestigious private school St. Lunatic High—complete with a house for the two of them—they jump at the chance. Niko plans on taking night classes there while working during the day. There's just one problem. At night, St. Lunatic is a high school not for privileged humans—but for demons. Niko's classmates are skeletons, pumpkin-heads and froglike creatures and the school nurse is a human-hating mermaid. As Niko tries, and fails, to fit in, she's drawn to Ren-Kun, who looks almost human, though his wings come in handy when Niko gets into trouble. This manga is appealingly offbeat, though Niko's hyperactive over-reactions to every obstacle can be grating. Each of the stories is straightforward, but there are always distracting antics by Niko's demonic cohorts. The appeal of future installments is not to see the resolution of the predictable romance but to see what bizarre twists Majiko! throws in, whether it be the school chairman leaping through trees in a kangaroo suit or Niko marveling that with a giant mushroom growing out of her back she'll never have to use an umbrella again. (Aug.)
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Product Description

Forced to attend the prestigious St. Lunatic School, Niko Kanzaki discovers a haunting secret in her demon-filled night-classes! She applies higher learning to find out the differences between humans and demons, but the handsome and mysterious Ren shows her that the races also share some things in common...Ah, yes, high school--filled with cute boys, delicious secrets, and debonair demons...oh, my! MAJIKO-sensei's first manga series is an A+ of magical hotness.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop (August 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598169440
• ISBN-13: 978-1598169447
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,675,289 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy and Cute, July 22, 2009

By	Amanda Lee - See all my reviews

I usually go to the bookstore with a book in mind, but I stumbled across this book and thought the art was adorable. I like things that are cute and just this side of creepy, so I bought it and headed home.
I'm not an expert on manga or anything, but I really did think the characters were very lovable and crazy. All in all, even though the whole demon night school thing has been done before, I found myself reading this and even giggling here and there. Throughout the whole volume I was mesmerized by the art.
It's a very short series, only two volumes, which is the only downfall I can see. I'm very glad I found it and I would get it again, as well as check out any other manga by the same artist.

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Cute and Funny!!!!, November 4, 2007

By	Not2old4boytoys (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

I was surprised when I found myself picking this off of the shelf while browsing in the book store. The title first attracted my attention, but the cover just looked too "cutesy," and I don't like "cutesy" in anything I read. But I opened it up anyway, and as I started reading, I found that I couldn't put it down, it was so GOOD! This is this mangaka's first full length graphic novel and I was pleasantly amazed to find that it is very sharp and funny. A lot of first attempts are usually never this well done. The pictures aren't surupy cute, but they are cute up to a point. It has, in fact, exceptionally good graphics and illustrations. The story-line has been done before (call this a cross between "Vampire Knight" and "Ouran Host High School") several times, but on the whole, the manga stands on its own power. I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I liked it very much, and I can highly recommend it to readers who enjoy a bit of romance, a few demons and some seriously crazy-looking classmates (one of the demons looks like a Maoh statue found on Easter Island) in their daily menu. I've read hundreds of manga, and I can easily put it at the top of my list. So please, enjoy it...it's a great tale!!!

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1.0 out of 5 stars DEMON NIGHT SCHOOL, September 29, 2007

By	Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Niko Kanzaki and her brother Atchan have fallen on hard times. They live alone and are behind on their rent and sometimes there are barely able to keep from starving. But Fate seems to cast a favorable eye on them when Atchan gets a job as a nightschool teacher at the prestigious and elite St. Lunatic High School. The ad that he responded to said the position came along with free housing including a private bath, toilet, and garden. When they arrive on the school grounds they are shocked to discover that they will be living in a hellhole shack even worse than the ratty apartment they were in! The bath and toilet they were promised turns out to be the school restroom facilities that all the students use. The garden just turns out to be the school's landscaped grounds. As an added bonus, Niko is allowed to attend night classes with her brother as homeroom teacher. The aspect of this manga that pushes it from normal school life to the realm of the bizarre and strange is that the students that attend St. Lunatic at night are all DEMONS! And most of them are pretty funky looking. You have skeletons, human sized frogs, pumpkinheads, a walking Easter Island statue, and a penguin that looks like it fell out of Disgaea. There is one fellow student that looks human, a handsome boy named Ren-kun, but even he is a demon who can fly with the use of bone-like wings. Being the only human in the class, Niko faces a lot of discrimination from the demon children but she's trying her best to get along with them and learn at the same time.

St. Lunatic High School was a manga that Tokyopop originally offered for sale only on their website, a fate that some titles were subjugated to because of low sales expectations. It turns out that the lack of belief in this title was justified. Relative to the writing and concept, the art was the standout of this first volume. Majiko's style and character designs reminded me a bit of Takeshi Obata's work on Hikaru No Go but with less attention to detail and backgrounds. The writing is where this book suffers the most. First of all, the concept of a demon night school, while not the most original in the world, could've worked if the characters had been anything more than voided lumps of flesh with no personality. The comedy aspects of the book were also flat and humorless. There just wasn't anything interesting going on in this manga and it became rather boring. If you read this book on a Monday, by Friday you won't remember much about it.