Customer Reviews

Mars, Book 3

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WOW!!!

What can I say about Mars that isn't already said. Mars is wonderful. It's in a class of it's own.

The artwork is realistic, fresh, crisp and enjoyable to look at and read. Attention to details. It's just wonderful.

The story is well thought out. It's good girl meets bad boy love story with ups and downs, secrets to be revealed and love triangles. The plot is well formed and enjoyable. The art is realistic. It doesn't give you a toothache from being too sugary sweet like alot of mangas out there.

There is alot of more mature scenes further ahead. There is some swear words. If you don't want to handle some physical violent scenes, swear words, or sexual scenes, than look else where.

Mars is a beautiful story of a bad boy and a good girl who alter eachother's lives. The two main characters are recovering from tragedies in their past, and sharing those haunting memories with eachother, they begin to escape the ghosts that shadow them and begin with a fresh start that they share together. I've never read a better series of graphic novels. This is one that I think anyone could enjoy. The characters are wonderfully created, and the art unique. It is a story that I will never forget.

Just getting hooked off Maralade Boy, I thought that was the greatest book in the world, then I saw an advertisement on Mars.I thought it was quite interesting , so I said I wanted to get it. As lucky as it might sound , I was in the library when I saw Mars 1& 2 .Well I might have taken both of them but I knew my friend wanted one.After I read 1 & 2 , I was hooked but not as much as my friend .She ordered numbers 3,4,5,and 6. Right now she's waiting for 7,8,9,10,and 11.So do think someone would buy the whole series if it wasn't good? Well think again it's a great manga , perhaps the best.If you like romance and relationships I think you'll like it it even has action too.Also if you LOVE motorcycles there will be alot of it because Rei likes motorcycles.

Great! Emotional and moving. You really do fall in love with Rei and Kira. They're very real and the artwork is great.

This book is GREAT! It is the best manga i have ever read. I've only read the first book but i fell in love with it. Since the first time I picked it up, I was unable to put it down. I hope that other people will read this book and not be turned off by the akward form of it. Just give it a try and I guarete you will like it.

Most of the volume is taken up by Rei's motorcycle race. The author does a good job of keeping the drama up throughout the race, but I got bored after a while and just wanted the race to be over. We learn more about Rei's love of motorcycles and racing and about his past. (Spoiler!! Rei had a twin brother who committed suicide. Why he committed suicide is a mystery, but I have a feeling that it is going to become an important factor in the story.) We also learn more Kira and her love of being an artist. I continued to enjoy seeing Kira and Rei's relationship develop and grow as they learn more about each other and go through these hardships.

Kira thinks its cool to have a hot boyfriend like Rei... he's more than just hot, he's sizzlin'! It almost seems like a dream come true for the shy little artist, and for some of the jealous girls at school, it is - Rei's just so hot the ladies fight over him! Not Kira's fault of course, but the mean girls take it out on her anyway.

there was EXTREME water damage and stickers on the book. cover in no good quality.

the only good thing about it was that it arrived promplty

GREAT MANGA!!!!

I'm in my twenties and this is one of the best mangas

I first started reading Mars when it was published in the shoujo manga magazine Smile, it stuck out to me but when Smile stopped printing in July 02' I didn't pick up on any of the series they put out there. Then about four years later I looked back on them with my best friend and Mars was the one that recaptured my interest. Since I own the first two books from Smile, I picked the third copy at Borders and I have continued to collect them (up to volume six now). Considering that it had been almost half a decade until I reread this series, it's saying something that I would still enjoy it so much (even more so now).

This particular volume starts going more in depth with Rei's twin brother Sei who had committed suicide when they were in Junior High. Oddly, Kira seems to share some very eerie similarities with him which raises some more serious questions. It also takes place as Rei is motorcycle racing in Suzuka and Kira is completing her painting of him. One of my favorites quotes is from Rei's friend Kyoko (a fellow motorcycle racer) when she says "Watching Rei's riding makes you realize that racing was made for men. Of course there's the physical strength aspect but our minds are structured differently. The instict to fight is purely male."

Mars is a manga worth picking up because although it may seem like a simple "good girl bad boy" love story, they're many powerful observations about life that transcend the romance itself, and great characters that keep the romance interesting. Awesome read.