Name: Angelic Layer
ISBN: 9781616550219

CLAMP (Mangaka group)

Twelve-year-old Misaki Suzuhara, becomes engrossed in the game Angelic Layer, in which contestants must raise and train their own "Angels" to compete in tournaments.

Angelic Layer

Clamp

Misaki tries to win the game of Angelic Layer by relying on an angel and a crazy scientist.

Angelic Layer Volume 1

Kirsten Simkiss

I loved this series as a kid and rereading it as an adult is definitely fun. I love the concept and that it isn’t 60 volumes long. Plus, CLAMP’s art was always lovely. I’m enjoying my reread of the series, but I do think that the first volume is just covering the basics of how Angelic Layer really works.

A new arena at the Angelic Layer finals features a challenging 3-D environment full of craggy peaks and smoky crevices, and Misaki faces some stiff competition as the first player to fight in the new ring.

The plot definitely picks up a little, though not all that dramatically. The art has made a definite improvement overall and the characters are beginning to mesh better and better with each other. While it's still very much geared toward children, I still think the story is delightful and cute, though repetitive.

Misaki Suzuhara tries to make a comeback after losing her first battle, and must gather her courage for her next two matches: one with a Japanese pop star, the other with the fearsome Fujisaki sisters, who will do anything to win.

The plot has definitely begun picking up from the first volume, which basically breaks the main character into the game and teaches both her and us as the readers how Angelic Layer is played. In this volume, the fighting really begins and Misaki has to really think about how to defeat her opponents, all of whom use a variety of different techniques she has yet to face.

Misaki faces her most challenging opponent yet in the Angelic Layer tournament--Ohjiro Mihara, called the Prince of the Layer--whose reputation as a competitor is legendary.

Pretty much the same as the last review for Volume 3, I think that the story is cute and adorable but ultimately geared toward children and a little repetitive. I love the character designs for the Angels and Humans alike.

Kimi 

After beating the elder Fujisaki sister in the Angelic Layer games, Misaki Suzuhara must now battle younger sister Arisu, a mechanical genius thirsting for revenge.