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Title | Volume 1
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Author | Ayuko
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Publisher | Viz Media - 2012
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First Printing | Shueisha - 2008
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Title | Volume 2
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Author | Ayuko
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Publisher | Viz Media
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First Printing | ---
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Title | Volume 3
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Author | Ayuko
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Publisher | Viz Media - 2013
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First Printing | Shueisha - 2008
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Title | Volume 4
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Author | Ayuko
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Publisher | Editions Glenat - 2013
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First Printing | Shueisha - 2008
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Category | Manga
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Lydia Carlton, Edgar Ashenbert, Nico, Raven, Ermine, Huxley
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Main Elements | Fairies
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Volume 1
Lydia Carlton is a fariy doctor, one of the few people with the ability to see the magical creatures who share our world. During one of her rare trips to London to visit her father, Lydia's quiet life is suddenly transformed when she is rescued from kidnapping by a mysterious young man!
Edgar Ashenbert claims to be descended from the human ruler of the fairy kingdom, and he urgently needs Lydia's help to find and claim his birthright, the legendary sword of the Blue Knight Earl. Things will never be the same for Lydia as she is pulled into a dangerous quest against dark forces.
Volume 2
Edgar and his small band must travel to the isle of Manan, once home to the Blue Knight Earl. But the island is surrounded by merfolk, whose tragic songs cause rough seas and shipwrecks. And even if Edgar and his companions reach the island, they face death if it turns out he isn't a true heir to the Earl...
Volume 3
Lydia and Edgar have returned to London after their adventure on the Isle of Manan. But life in the capital is no respite for the weary travelers. A being called the Frogman stalks the night streets, snatching children all around town. And it may have something to do with Edgar's dark past...
Volume 4
Piegee par Rosalie, Lydia se retrouve enfermee dans un entrepot ou est egalement faite prisonniere Doris, jusqu'ici portee disparue. C'est alors que le bogie beast apparait et leur revele la presence de "l'homme de brume" derriere cette affaire. Pendant ce temps, alors qu'il essaye de venier en aide a Lydia, Edgar doit dejouer les manigances de Graham Purcell!
Beautiful artwork and a lovely setting of Victorian England. Our main character is a Fairy Doctor, I'm not sure if something is lost in translation here because she's not really a doctor, she doesn't heal fairies in the sense of setting their bones or giving them medicine but rather she tries to keep humans and fairies living side by side harmoniously. I suppose that's a kind of doctor after all.
Lydia gets kidnapped twice, once by someone who seems to be most certainly a bad guy name Huxley, and then by someone a bit more complicated and seems to be both a bad and a good guy, or a good guy forced to do bad things, or a bad guy that wants to become a good guy, Edgar. Either way, as they try to unravel the riddle to find the treasure sword, Lydia and Nico are trying to unravel the people they are forced to associate with.
The first two books complete a single story arc, the third and fourth complete a related second arc. For some odd reason my library had all of them in English except the last one I had to read in French. And I really loved the little bonus comics at the end of each volume, those are always fun.
This manga series was originally a book, and I think I might have liked to have read that more since this manga is so short it's a bit jumpy and I feel like everything is crammed in together a bit much. But overall it was quite enjoyable, especially in the second story arc which felt a little less rushed allowing the mystery to build up. Unfortunately it doesn't have a concrete ending, leaving it open for more adventures but there are no more books.
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