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Pichi Pichi Pitch 1: Mermaid Melody (Pichi Pichi Pitch (Graphic Novels))

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This is actually a pretty good translation! Even if you've seen the fan translations, you might as well go get the English version, if only to support the franchise and make someone get the anime license again. One note about the manga- it's really different from the anime. Besides small changes like Shinju-yu and Gackto in the manga becoming Pearl Piari and Gaito in the anime, the show is more child-friendly while the manga is rated T, and some later events (blood during battles, LuciaxKaito and MichalxKaito lead-up scenes, the demise of a certain pair of villains) provide a good reason. None of that happens in the first volume, though, and both versions are pretty good storytelling. If you are of the deluded opinion that magical girls are all Sailor Moon wannabes, if too much pink is bad for your health, or if you just think singing to defeat the enemy is weird (well, it is... and those attack names ["Pretty Sugar Pitch"?] are odd too, but if you think it's weird enough to put you off), you will utterly despise this book. If none of this applies to you, read it. Now. Okay?

Ok, I love this book! The story, charecters, everything! If you are into the manga's that envolve things like magical girls, and fighting, this is the book for you!! I LOVE IT!!! Go HaNoN!

I purchased this not knowing the content. My daughter is an advanced reader that loves manga. This series is too grown up for her. It has a bunch of anime of teenagers kissing. There is many parts where the girl is head over heals for the boy. Maybe good for a younger teen but not for an older child.

this series is one that you can skip. the first few books are INTERESTING... but then they get stranger and stranger and they don't make sense anymore... well they never did... when you get to the 5 or 6 book it gets cheezy and you gag XP so skip unless you want bad cheezy manga.

If you liked "Sailor Moon", you'll love "Pichi Pichi Pitch". This manga follows the adventures of care-free Lucia, the pink mermaid princess of the North Atlantic. Lucia has stationed herself on land in order to find the mermaid princesses of the six other seas so that they may combine their strengths to combat an eminent evil to their underwater kingdoms. But, Lucia must first find her pearl, which is the source of her power. Unbeknownst to her chaperon sister Lucia actually knows the location of her pearl. It is in the possession of her beloved, Kaito, whom she met at the tender age of eight when she witnesses him being swept into the sea from his party cruiser by a freak storm. She gives him her pearl so that he may breath underwater and doesn't set eyes on him again for the next seven years.

You might be mistaken into believing this manga would be action packed and involve Lucia pursuing her mission, but why should she bother to look when everything comes to her? The other mermaid princesses show up, apparently taking their responsibilities more seriously than Lucia, and sexy step-mother villains pursue the mermaid princess' pearls only to be blasted back to their overlord by pichi pichi singing.

The other half of this manga involves Kaito's conflicted pursuit of Lucia. Upon first seeing Lucia in her human form he is attracted to her, but with evil villains out to capture powerful pearls, Lucia is forced to combat them in mermaid form and the reappearance of Kaito's first love sets him into a tailspin; because Lucia is told she will turn into sea foam if she, "willingly reveals her true self [to a human]..." Kaito's attention is double-edged. In her human form Lucia receives Kaito's attention and invitations to festivals. She has her hand held and finger sucked-- and these aren't things Kaito does for any girl. Still, the only form Kaito freely gives his heart to is mermaid Lucia. This frustrates human-form Lucia to no end.

If you're looking for a different spin on the fuzzy mermaid theory I would recommend Rumiko Takahashi's "Mermaid Forest." Otherwise, do not waste your time if you are looking for something original with more depth of character. Storylines for Disney's "The Little Mermaid" are more varied and brain-enhancing.