The One I Love (Manga)

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Manga
title The One I Love
Original title わ た し の す き な ひ と
transcription Watashi no Suki na Hito
author Clamp
publishing company Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Young Rose
First publication December 1993 - June 1995
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The One I Love ( Japanese わ た し の す き な ひ と , Watashi no Suki na Hito ) is a manga series by the Japanese drawing team Clamp . The manga is aimed primarily at adult women, so it can be assigned to the Josei genre. The One I Love consists of twelve stories, all of which revolve around love. The protagonists of the stories are female. Clamp member Mick Nekoi was responsible for drawing the manga, and Nanase Ōkawa wrote comments on each story.

content

The volume contains twelve short stories as well as related essays by Nanase Ōkawa, which are a few pages long. It is about the love of young girls and women, about their satisfaction, insecurity or regret, overcoming and thoughts about the wedding. It is always told from the perspective of the main female character, with each story devoted to a different aspect or conflict of love. Most of the circumstances are also based on personal experiences of the Clamp artists, as revealed in the essays.

Publications

The manga was published in Japan from 1993 to 1995 in monthly chapters in the manga magazine Young Rose . The Kadokawa-Shoten- Verlag published these individual chapters in an anthology.

The anthology was also published in Spain, Germany, France and the USA. The One I Love was published in German by Egmont Manga & Anime in January 2006 .

reception

The Manga is described in AnimaniA 2005 as the most personal work of the team of artists, as the stories are partly autobiographical. The drawings are enchanting, but "in rare places the proportions and facial features still seem uncertain and the background is not as detailed as in the later works." The collection of heartwarming stories is one of the illustrators' most interesting early works. Jason Thompson, on the other hand, considers the work to be the most immature from Clamp and not recommendable. The message that pervades all the stories that girls should be themselves in a relationship is a wonderful idea, but its execution turns into an almost anti-feminist one. Because while the girls have all of the flaws that they need to overcome, their male partners are flawless.

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  1. ↑ a b Sabine Rudert: Intimate feelings . In: AnimaniA . 08-09 / 2005, pp. 52-53
  2. ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 255 .