Shiei

Luna. A test tube baby raised in a lab training with adults to be a spy. Not just any spy. The Best spy EVER. With her genetically advanced DNA she's smart, quick, AND pretty. What else does a girl need? Well, friends would be a good start. Luna is about to go on the hardest mission of her life: High School. Now entering adolescence her emotions are crazy and the lab just couldn't handle it. So with Control has her mom and Dr. Andy as her dad she gets situated as the new Girl in Nobel High. Where everyone hates her. Except him. The dorky skateboarder that you just can't help but love. Oliver
What'll happen? You'll just have to enjoy this fun read to find out!… (meer)

I am getting quite taking in with Manga now a days, the drawings, the back to front, villains and heroes, disguised and out in plain view. There is a seriousness and a daintiness and characters yelling at each other. Much of that can be found in Amazing Agent Luna. I don’t know the plotline in vol 1 but vol 2 held its own, with stuff that can be figured out in the contents of this book.

This is a Manga graphic novel, with typical manga style characters and artwork that starts in the back and is read left to right. Enjoy this book. I did! Looking forward to reading vol 1 and continue in volume 3.… (meer)

I haven't read OEL manga in a while, so I wasn't sure what to expect from Amazing Agent Luna. I enjoyed the work a lot, though I thought the high school drama elements were a bit much. The cast is almost too tight to quite work. We don't particularly see any faculty outside of the science and PE teachers and the principal. Similarly, the school seems to consist of only two cliques - the outsiders, which Luna latches on to, and the bunch of "Mean Girls" which make up the popular clique. There's no social groups around athletics or drama (or any other extra-curricular activities) to speak of.

Now, I understand that most works set in high school keep the cast tight for an economy of characters. Still, even shows like Daria and series like the Harry Potter books (and movies) have a variety of classes that we see, so we get an idea of what school and the instructors are like, before expanding on these characters and their traits as the work goes on.

Consequently, when the science teacher position basically turns into this series "Defense Against The Dark Arts" position, the high turnover becomes even more glaring when there are only so many instructors that we know.… (meer)

This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer Title: Amazing Agent Luna #6-10 Series: Amazing Agent Luna Author: Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir Artist: Shiei Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Manga Pages: ------ Synopsis: Luna gets close to Anders, finds out about Nightfall, leaves the Agency, finds out Jennifer is her birth mother, is under a death notice from the Agency, gets back with Jonah and has to deal with the Bruckenstein's yet again. And her little sister Terra has been decanted and is trying to kill her. My Thoughts: I really enjoyed these, even with all the teen drama and angst and hormones. However, I did find that about 1 manga a day was all I could handle. I read volumes 6 & 7 together and by the end of volume 7 I was almost ready to quit :-) Count Bruckenstein is a great comedy villain. When Shiei draws him in chibi form, I want to laugh my head off. His wife, Elyse, on the other hand, is a true villain. Cold, calculating and pure evil. The inclusion of Terra at the end of volume 10 is great. It helps to know that volume 11 is the last volume in the series. "… (meer)