Broken Angels Volume 1 (Paperback)

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Product Description

Fujiwara Sunao is a rather unusual young lady. Not only does she prefer to wear her hair short and dress like a boy, but she also possesses the power to control water! One might think Fujiwara would be an odd fit at her school, but strangely, she's not. Between the destructive and demented school president, the kooky and somewhat stalker-like school nurse, and the obsessed underclassman who wants to be her apprentice, Fujiwara may be the sanest person at the school--which is a big help considering she may be asked to save it!

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop (February 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598161598
• ISBN-13: 978-1598161595
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,717,956 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please Find a Better Manga to Buy, December 28, 2006

By	Denyala (Jacksonville, FL United States) - See all my reviews

I saw this in the bookstore and with it's eyecatching art and interesting summary on the back decided to buy it and see what it was all about. I was extremely disappointed.

The story is so shaky it's extrememly difficult to understand what's going on. Characters are thrown into the plotline with little introduction or personality.

Personally I felt it was like the author wanted to establish that the main character is female, but wants to look male, and controls water. These facts were thrown at the reader repeatedly to the point of being dull and annoying. Not to mention that the supporting cast was introduced in a few pages, then treated as if they had been long since established.

All in all, I will not be picking up anymore of these mangas, and I might even try to return the volume I did purchase. If you want a manga with pretty artwork and only pretty artwork, then feel free to pick this up. But if you'd like some decent story to go along with it, steer clear my friends.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars decent art, not so decent story, June 26, 2006

By	yuki - See all my reviews

The art for this is rather nice, though a little off at some times, and the chibi-blank Fujiwara is kinda creepy.

All in all, the author does a decent job of establishing a "world" - the characters enjoyably interact with each other although they are admittedly a bit of cliche character types - I'm thinking of a combo of Alec (Ceres) and Watari (Yami no Matsuei) for the doctor, and Kiri (Beauty Pop) and some others for Fujiwara.

The main problem with this book is that from page one you feel as if you are thrown into an already existing world without any initiation - as if this was a spinoff from some other series (Brand-New Angels?) Not only does the manga-ka seem to assume we know as much about her world as she, but she then follows up with a shaky storyline.

The bottom line is, if you want to buy this book, read at least a chapter or two first to make sure.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save your manga-bucks - pass on this one, February 28, 2006

By	Shirobara "Rose-white" (The Emerald City) - See all my reviews

It has some nicely drawn characters and decent background art. The character's themselves aren't too bad either. There are some nice quirky moments of humor but they are separated by lots of who-cares storyline. As a matter of fact I've seen cereal boxes with more plot than this manga. It might pick up in vol. #2 but I'm not holding my breath. It's as if the creator sat down and decided to write a little gender-bender school story, but then decided they'd like it to have a supernatural twist so the main character is given the power to control water. Not bad so far, but then the creator struggles mightily to come up with storylines that could include this power at a high school. It's really sorry stuff so far. I would like to see this creator paired up with a real writer and save his/her focus on the sequential artwork, which is where this creator excels.