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The One I Love Nanase Ohkawa Clamp Mick Nekoi Ray Yoshimoto 9781591827641 Books Reviews

When it comes to magical girls and whimsical themes of romantic entertainment, I avoid. When it comes to anthologies, "GIMME!"

~REVIEW~

It was in 2003 that I bought and reviewed CLAMP's other anthology, the winter sense of collective fairy tales "Shirahime-Syo." It was beautiful, thoughtful, sad, and it's a four-star manga. Now, in 2004, Tokyopop released another anthology from the Femme Four, so I bought what's possibly one of their best work they have ever done. "The One I Love Watashi no Sukinahito" is a gem of anthology in its own right.

Like every anthology that was made, "The One I Love" is collection of short stories that followed a similar theme (guess this book's theme). This manga contains 12 "scenes" with a different female protagonist (all nameless) in each one, all at nearly 130 pages. Yea, if you know your math correctly, each of these "scenes" are REALLY short; as short as a celebrity relationship. However, I understood the limitations of anthologies, so I don't consider the length to be a flaw like I use to. As short as they are, the quality of these stories cannot be ignored

Scene 1 - DIFFERENT A tomboy, seemingly enough, waits at a park to apologize to the guy she cares about over a little argument, while wearing a pink kimono to look like a different girl. That is, until, she complains if she wears to wrong color kimono (A girl`s gotta look appealing to please her man).

Scene 2 - CUTE A perky young lady, who has a nerve to think that a manhole is cute, began analyzing how the word "cute" doesn't always justify the mean.

Scene 3 - I MISS YOU This main girl's lonely, and her boyfriend works at a full-time job as a manga artist. She tries to cope with this limited relationship, but she's so frustrated over her loneliness, because all she wanted was for him to be with her.

Scene 4 - A YOUNGER MAN She's upright, a reasonable worker, and in her mid-20s. It's Christmas time, and that would've been a great time for her and her lover, if they didn't break up months ago due to an age difference. She was older than her ex, so from the break-up, she became apparent that age made her feel insecure with her love life.

Scene 5 - SUDDENLY What can I say it's "instant love" for this girl. Work was stressful for a girl in a design studio, as she has to accomplish many things in a day-only deadline. It wasn't until later in her strict working schedule that she suddenly fell in love with "the big cheese."

Scene 6 - TOGETHER A short-haired lady reminisces about her kindergarten days where she met her first crush when he lend her a harmonica to play for some "kindy" orchestra. His skills with the harmonica made her tried to be as good with the harmonica, so she can share a similar interest with him. Even to this day, her older self, waiting for him in the street, wonders what else both might share to deepen their relationship.

Scene 7 - PRETTY She wants to look good for her date, maybe even look pretty. Unfortunately for her, it's raining on the day of her date and she was running late, so she quickly had to wear some unappealing clothes and suffer through the dampness of the weather condition. What will her date think of her now?

Scene 8 - INSECURE A girl dreamt that she was a cat and that she got her butt thrown out of house, because her boyfriend doesn't need her anymore (typical). She thinks her dream was more of a premonition, believing that her boyfriend might dump her, so she felt insecure of what's going to happen to her.

Scene 9 - COURAGE The main girl in this scene is probably the most "ugliest" one compare to the different babes from other scenes. It's Valentine Day, and she decides to buy a gift for someone she admire a while back. Now all she needs is the hubris to admit her feelings to that guy.

Scene 10 - NORMAL When a man and a woman fall deeply in love, they either have a child in a premarital way or they get hitched. Fortunately for saints, this story's about proposal, but the main woman doesn't know if she wants to tie the knot, since she and his "fiancée" didn't interact much together. She doesn't know if she will love him through marriage.

Scene 11 - APART Let's face it long-distance relationships almost never work for any couple. This main girl thinks so otherwise, but she decides to give love a chance and asked her lover to meet at the train station, hoping that the distant between each other didn't cause for him to move on with other people.

Scene 12 - MARRIAGE "...and to love each other `till death do us part." This vow would eventually be spoken from the bride, who starts having second thought about marriage because of what might happen in the aftermath. She has the right to be concerned of possible marital consequences constant verbal abuse, irreconcilable compromises, divorce. Can she accept the obstacles to be with her hubby?

To make the scenes more enhanced, each scene ends with a written essay by one of the members of CLAMP, Nanase Ohsawa. There's more reading involved, but they brings better insight to how the stories were made; some were semi-autobiographical to CLAMP members. Not only are they stories, they surprisingly worked as life lessons . Though I have some favorites, the best scene has to be "A YOUNGER MAN", because I always had that similar problem with age being the focus of my love life. It used to bother me when the girls I like are older than me, which distant me from them, but thanks to that scene, it broadens my way of thinking and decided to not let age bother me from having dates.

Not only is the content and the art wonderful, but so is the packaging. The book feels so smooth to the touch and not plastic-y like the majority of the manga selection. The manga has color pages, and the paper quality (color and black/white) has that same smoothness as the cover. It'd be perfect if the book is in hardcover format, but as it is, I applaud Tokyopop for producing one of the best packaging I've ever held.

THE FINAL WORD Lovely. This is a remarkable anthology that deals with issues that can help others adjust to certain parts of intimacy. Despite its female appeal, there's something within this book that can be suitable to any gender. Whether or not you're into romance or CLAMP, you must do yourself a favor and check this out. "The One I Love" is the one I highly recommend.
I'll admit that I am a real sucker for anthology books. I think if someone is able to convey an entire novels worth of plot into a 20+ page story, then their storytelling skills are particularly impressive. Plus, there are incredibly few manga graphic novels(that really come from Japan). So, I'd very much recommend this particular anthology, which was put together by none other than CLAMP. It's actually by half of the manga-ka quartet, written by Tsubaki(formally "Mick")Nekoi, and drawn by Nanase Ohkawa. It consists of a series of essays written by Nekoi about romantic relationships she has had and being a female in love, as well as the lives of some of her friends and coworkers. The rest of it is short comic stories illustrating the points of each essay.

Each one of these twelve stories are only about 12 pages long, but all are memorable. We start with the only color entry in Different where a girl frets over wearing a kimono when meeting up with her boyfriend, who turns out to dress up on his own for her. Cute helps define between a young couple finds as being cute, even manhole covers. I Miss You shows the problems facing a manga-ka trying to carry on a relationship. Insecue has a girl being paranoid about her lover dumping her when she can't get in their apartment. Courage is a sweet short about the Japanese tradition of girls giving chocolate on Valentines. Normal is one of the best as it has a woman realize the little things that would make her want to get married.

This is a sweet little one-shot collection, and really stands out amoung CLAMP's library of manga titles. It would be nice for them to do more like this, even though Snow Goddess Tales and Miyuki-chan In Wonderland are also worth looking into for some of their other anthologies.
The One I Love is very sweet and uplifting, the reader can't help but feel content and more understanding after reading it. An awesome book for any shojo-manga reader.
The art is not what I expected from clamp. The book is small, thin, and a very short read. It has a few tiny stories that are several pages long. I'm a huge clamp fan. I love their work. Chobits. Xxxholic. Tsubasa. Rayearth. Ccs. I. Love. Clamp. I adore clamp. This book though did not meet my expectations. Its ok at best. Its just a bunch (correction few) of unrealistic thoughts on love and relationships that would make any adult (and I'm only 21) scoff. Really? Maybe you have to be a hopeless romantic with a really open heart and an empty glass of wine to enjoy this.. whatever ill keep it fo the sake of collecting.
CLAMP-You have to love the stories in this manga!! It is reallt awesome the way of style use---is really simple style and yet the stories are so awesome