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Kobato Vol. #01 Manga Review

Meet Kobato Hanato, a sweet and rather simple young girl on a quest to have her single, dearest wish granted. But first, she must learn the ways of the world from Ioryogi-san, a gruff blue dog whose bark is just as bad as his bite! Under his “tutelage” (read: constant verbal abuse), Kobato puts her efforts into passing various trials of common sense so that she may obtain the key to getting her wish – a magic bottle which must be filled with the suffering of wounded hearts that Kobato herself has healed. But with Kobato’s common sense sorely lacking, she keeps flunking Ioryogi-san’s trials left and right! It looks like the road that lies ahead of Kobato will be a long one indeed!

Technical The first volume of Kobato is released in the standard manga size format and uses a bright pastel colored cover to attract the eye. The cover features an image of the titular character Kobato wearing a bright and frilly dress and a dazzling smile as she is posed against a picturesque blue sky with white clouds. Also present on the cover in the bottom right as he is peering out of her hand basket is the other main character of the series, the small blue plush dog looking Ioryogi who contrasts Kobato’s cheerful mood with his eyes a fiery red and his mouth open displaying his sharp teeth. The left side of the cover has a wavy pink boarder with the title written in hot pink just under half way down the cover with a branch and bird sitting on it sprouting off the title and the line “Presented by CLAMP” in black below that. The spine uses a pink color with the title and bird in yellow, a crop of Kobato from the cover in a rectangle and the volume number and author team in black below that. The back cover is primarily white with a pink boarder that includes little leaves on the right as the copy is written in pink at the top. Almost a third of the space on the back is dedicated to white space and an image of Ioryogi standing with left arm held out as if pointing at the reader and he is wearing a small silver crown on his head.

The book contains four glossy pages though only the two interior pages are in color which is used for a wonderful image of Kobato wearing a Christmas themed outfit. The page quality for the rest of the book is of acceptable quality though it is a little on the rough side and contains more flecks of stuff in the paper than paper used by some other companies. Comparing the art from some pages to that on the glossy ones it really doesn’t suffer very much from this choice of paper though light doesn’t reflect as well off the page making the pages look a bit darker looking when reading than it probably should. The text itself is well translated as it flows smoothly and the Japanese effects are left alone with the effect translated into English beneath them and honorifics are also present. Signs are translated in the margins near where they appear which may be a bit on the small side for some readers but it isn’t horribly small contract print sized. The volume also includes two pages of translator notes at the end of the book though the text used for this is also considerable smaller than the text displayed in the book’s main material.

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