魔法騎士レイアース 新装版 1

Not CLAMP's best work, but easy Fantasy

I was very underwhelmed by this, compared to the other CLAMP works I'm familiar with (Tsubasa and xxxHolic manga/anime, and CCS anime). While the main trio are enjoyable enough, the side characters are pretty terrible. I find it hard to believe that they're this bad at communication and preparation, when this isn't their first rodeo with the whole magic knights thing, nor with their rivals. All of the side character interactions take like 2-3x as long as they should b/c the side characters eithe

Classic Fantasy

Wow, I really enjoyed this! I didn't have much exposure to CLAMP or their works before starting this with a book club, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. What I got was a fun, beautifully-drawn tale of three girls carried off to another world, summoned as mythical warriors in order to defeat evil and bring peace back to the land. The premise is a classic one, and I'm happy to say that, at least for me, the characters' colorful personalities and the classic shoujo art style merge together gre

I ostensibly bought this for the Learnnatively book club, but because I have zero impulse control I tore through it anyway, and I have to say I'm glad I did. The only thing I really knew about Rayearth is that there's a very expensive Sega Saturn game based on it, and now that I've read and enjoyed this first volume, I think I need that video game (thankfully Japanese copies are much cheaper).

I'm not sure how early or late in the development of the Magical Girl or Isekai Genres this is, bu