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Okay read this all the way through, it starts out a little cheesy, but I promise it's a good read. It starts out with a girl who has a nightmare every night. This nightmare depicts a man, that she has never met, being killed. This girl with the bad dreams or premonitions also talks to flowers (remember cheesy?) She is the daughter of a prominent Kabuki family and one day while attending her older brother's performance, she sees the man of her dreams (literally). After the show she goes behind stage to see her brothers she meets the man, he's sort of a jerk. Some stuff goes down but the girl is suddenly pulled away because her father suddenly falls ill. The girl's father was poisoned by a spider which she finds out when she asks the flowers. So she goes to where the flowers tells her to, then she ends up being the servant of the man that she had been dreaming about. The man turns out to be the adopted son, and one of three possible heirs, to another main kabuki families. Will the girl's dream of him dieing come true or can she save him in time?
Honestly there aren't too many times I need to buy comics anymore. I've got thousands, but I needed this one. When I chose to read this I had just started looking deeper at the X-men. I wanted to know who Hope Summers was and that lead me to this series. All I can say is it's amazing. (I say amazing way too much but it still is) This series takes place after the House of M series (so didn't know that when I started reading this, had to backtrack a little) and it is about the first mutant born after the event. The comic opens up with a truly disturbing scene with children and adults slaughtered and the entire village on fire. We don't know who committed this attack at this point but we do know it was cruel and heartless and done out of fear. The only survivor is a single newborn baby. This baby is found by Cable (Cable is the son of Jean and Scott, I still have to find that series. Cable is a time traveling mutant) and he takes the baby because she, the sole survivor is the mutant that had surfaced. The baby, named Hope and adopted by Cable, carries the Phoenix with her.
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This manga is AWESOME. It's truly funny and a little dark and almost every girl's fantasy (but honestly what manga isn't?). Alicia Faitlin, daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family, was forced into an arranged marriage by her uncle, but the groom dies suddenly in the middle of the ceremony. Although Alicia has been labeled "The Princess of Death" due to this incident, there's someone pursuing the matter of a second marriage with her. He is an upstart noble whose family was recently promoted to the ranks of the aristocracy, Kashburn Licen. This man is rumored to be a "Tyrant" however...