{"id":3263,"date":"2008-04-03T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2012-11-03T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T00:10:19","slug":"enchanter-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2008\/04\/03\/enchanter-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchanter Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haruhiko is 100% head over sneakers for his sweet, shy science teacher Yuka.\u00a0 After all, she’s a total brainiac…and incredibly hot!\u00a0 But what’s he supposed to do when an enchanted vixen named Eukanaria suddenly falls into his lap (in a tiny miniskirt) and demands Haruhiko’s help?\u00a0 Demonic battles, powerful sorcery, and a busy bee who can’t mind her own business…what will happen when magic and mayhem mix?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By Izumi Kawachi
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Digital Manga Publishing
\nGenre:<\/strong> Fantasy\/Action
\nRating:<\/strong> 16+
\nPrice:<\/strong> $12.95<\/p>\n

Coming from a publisher that is known for mostly publishing BL manga, this title is a nearly complete 180.\u00a0 Enchanter<\/em> has all the action, hot girls and fan service to appease any teenage boy.\u00a0 There’s actually a story in here too, though for me the fan service nearly cancels it out.<\/p>\n

Haruhiko is just an ordinary boy with a crush on his teacher and next door neighbor, Yuka.\u00a0 His feelings are perfectly natural for a 16-year-old boy, but the situation he gets thrown into isn’t.\u00a0 While trying to fix Yuka’s MD player, a demon, who could be Yuka’s twin falls literally into his lap.\u00a0 Eukanaria is being hunted because she carries the soul of her lover, the Enchanter Fulcanelli, who Haruhiko could be a double for.\u00a0 Haruhiko’s life now becomes doubly complicated as he must balance between fighting off the demons that want to possess Fulcanelli’s power, and Yuka trying to seduce him so that Fulcanelli’s soul can take over Haruhiko’s body.<\/p>\n

I had heard lots of good things about this title, so I was thrilled when I received it for review.\u00a0 And on just the story, it is a very good title.\u00a0 The story of Fulcanelli and the enchanted items he builds is interesting.\u00a0 It’s obvious that Eukanaria really loves Fulcanelli, as we see some sweet flashbacks.\u00a0 Haruhiko is enough of a gadget hound that he can ignore the weirdness of being transported to another dimension when he sees Fulcanelli’s workshop, prototypes and plans.\u00a0 The action is this first volume is fun too, as Haruhiko gets accustomed to using magic and fighting demons.<\/p>\n

There’s plenty of humor too, though most of it relies on Haruhiko’s hormone-driven mind.\u00a0 It’s here in that’s the problem for me.\u00a0 There is fan service on nearly every page, and almost always involving Eukanaria, whether she’s bending over to find some plans, shoving her breasts into Haruhiko’s face, to sleeping in Haruhiko’s bed while wearing Yuka’s lingerie.\u00a0 While I can tolerate some fan service in shonen titles, you know it’s going to be inevitable, this title just has too much, and it really ruined a lot of the volume for me.\u00a0 I couldn’t enjoy the story as much as I wanted as I was overwhelmed by the fan service.<\/p>\n

The art isn’t bad, but it isn’t anything special either.\u00a0 It is very generic shonen.\u00a0 DMP’s presentation of the volume however, is a step above.\u00a0 The book is printed in the oversize format, and it comes with a glossy dust sleeve, just like the Japanese editions do.\u00a0 We don’t see these in American editions, so it’s nice when a publisher takes the time to do one.\u00a0 Unfortunately, is also ups the price, as this title is $3.00 more than regular manga.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of potential in Enchanter<\/em>, but the ecchi elements pile onto so much that it can be hard to see.\u00a0 If ecchi’s your thing, then you will love this title.\u00a0 If you’re looking for an action title, you’re better off looking elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Review copy provided by publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haruhiko is 100% head over sneakers for his sweet, shy science teacher Yuka.\u00a0 After all, she’s a total brainiac…and incredibly hot!\u00a0 But what’s he supposed to do when an enchanted vixen named Eukanaria suddenly falls into his lap (in a tiny miniskirt) and demands Haruhiko’s help?\u00a0 Demonic battles, powerful sorcery, and a busy bee who can’t mind her own business…what will happen when magic and mayhem mix? By Izumi Kawachi Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Genre: Fantasy\/Action Rating: 16+ Price: $12.95 Coming from a publisher that is known for mostly publishing BL manga, this title is a nearly complete 180.\u00a0 Enchanter has all the action, hot girls and fan service to appease any teenage boy.\u00a0 There’s actually a story in here too, though for me the fan service nearly cancels it out. Haruhiko is just an ordinary boy with a crush on his teacher and next door neighbor, Yuka.\u00a0 His feelings are perfectly natural for a 16-year-old boy, but the situation he gets thrown into isn’t.\u00a0 While trying to fix Yuka’s MD player, a demon, who could be Yuka’s twin falls literally into his lap.\u00a0 Eukanaria is being hunted because she carries the soul of her lover, the Enchanter Fulcanelli, who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[172,83,99,110,122],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-manga-publishing","category-reviews","tag-ecchi","tag-manga","tag-older-teen","tag-review","tag-shonen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2012\/11\/Enchanter-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}