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@ 2010-08-22 11:17 am UTC
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The mature, sophisticated adult that is me could choose between many profound, complex works to select her favourite comics family.

The awestruck girl-geek that is my inner fourteen-year-old still has a weakness for the super-teams that wear school uniforms and yell out the names of their attacks.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Magic Knights.





I had a really hard time choosing between this and the Sailor Scouts, who were my first magical girl title. Ultimately, the Magic Knights won out because they are...

A: Better drawn.
B: A bazillion times more badass. By the end? They each get their own MAGICAL GIANT ROBOT. And even pre-robot and pre-magic, they all had combat skills and training of their own that they brought with them from our world. (Kendo, archery, fencing.)

Here they are using their non-magical skills to defeat one of their first monsters together. And girl-bonding.











Creator: CLAMP
Title: Magic Knight Rayearth
Series: 30 Days of Scans

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morgana006: Sakura with a cute expression (Sakura)


[personal profile] morgana006
2010-08-22 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Man, is this flipped?

So much love for the magic knights! Is it wrong that my favourite moment with them is the end of the third volume?

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[personal profile] arilou_skiff
2010-08-22 08:39 pm UTC (link)
I play that song constantly on my IPhone.

ANd yes, MKR is awesome. Especially Fuu. And Umi. Hikaru is OK too, but not as awesome.

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[personal profile] hyperactivator
2010-08-22 08:59 pm UTC (link)
I love this one so bad. I netflixed it on a whim and then fell in love.

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minyandu: "I made this!" (Default-Batman)


[personal profile] minyandu
2010-08-22 10:21 pm UTC (link)
Ohohohoh, this really remind me of the good old days, lol.
Go, Hikaru! :D

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mullon: (Tamaki Suoh)


[personal profile] mullon
2010-08-23 12:23 am UTC (link)
Wait...Mokona?!

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kagome654: (SQUEE)


[personal profile] kagome654
2010-08-23 01:50 am UTC (link)
Aw, makes me wish I hadn't donated my Rayearth manga. I just wish the series hadn't seemed so rushed (wasn't the second half only three volumes too?).

Hmph, the senshi didn't need silly giant robots to be badass. They were cool enough with their corny speeches and truly bizarre attacks ('Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!' 'Star Gentle Uterus!' 'Jupiter Coconut Cyclone!') to bother with such things

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leikomgwtfbbq: (huzzah!)


[personal profile] leikomgwtfbbq
2010-08-23 01:58 am UTC (link)
The Magic Knights are so cool. :D

Although the Sailor Senshi are the first in my heart, personally. Largely because of nostalgia and the impact they had on my life. (Lame as that sounds--I started writing Sailor Moon fanfiction when I was about eleven and just sort of never stopped. I couldn't imagine life without writing, and it's all because of Sailor Moon. Yeah. XD)

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celestialchild: (Ayumi Glasses)


[personal profile] celestialchild
2010-08-23 03:54 am UTC (link)
My very first manga, and to this day one of the best manga I ever read. It reads nicely as one complete, solid story, with a lot of fun times, seriousness, a good ideas. And interestingly this is was when CLAMP's style was still tame...

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neuhallidae: (Lettuce)


[personal profile] neuhallidae
2010-08-23 05:11 am UTC (link)
Oh, lawd, memories of being a high school freshman and the epic whammy that was the ending of volume 3. My mother had to come in and find out what was wrong, I was crying so hard.

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mistervader: (pic#641946)


[personal profile] mistervader
2010-08-23 07:19 am UTC (link)
I love the Magic Knights with a passion of a million exploding suns. Especially Fuu.

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shadowpsykie: (Happy Willow)


[personal profile] shadowpsykie
2010-08-23 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Rayearth was the inspiration for alot of my art....

i really need to watch this show again.

how many OVA's are there? i only saw one, and it was much darker than the actual series. still LOVED this series :)

though sailor moon will always be my anime/manga first family.

followed VERY closely behind by Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu :)

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cygna_hime: (Redheads FTW)


[personal profile] cygna_hime
2010-08-23 08:15 pm UTC (link)
...I just realized I haven't imported my Hikaru icon from LJ yet. Whoops. Just when it would be so appropriate, too.

This series has to win some kind of prize for changing the way I think. IIRC, it was the first serious subverted-fantasy-trope-fest thing I read, certainly the first manga. I've never looked back. (Hey, hey guys, remember when CLAMP did short, stand-alone series that didn't require you to read three different things and didn't retcon all the happy out of their previous work?)

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