I imagine that teens alone in Tokyo is shoujo's version of the convenient orphaning of child protagonists in adventure stories (especially fantasies) in Western children's lit. After all, with your beloved smother around, you'd never has *any* fun, right?
Re CLAMP and female clients/ghosts: yes. One of the worst in TB was the cult leader, whose only crime seemed to be that her cult didn't actually help the hapless bullied schoolgirl. Her punishment in this case seemed way over the top, and SeishirÅ seemed to know her from somewhere else, but where was never explained.
The whole cult chapter was such a direct parallel to the cult that Kubota and Tokito discover in Wild Adapter vol. 3 (written ~2005) that I wondered whether Minekura-sensei was parodying it, or whether it's just a common trope in manga. In contrast, the cult leader in WA was actually up to something bad.
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Date: 2015-03-08 05:27 pm (UTC)I imagine that teens alone in Tokyo is shoujo's version of the convenient orphaning of child protagonists in adventure stories (especially fantasies) in Western children's lit. After all, with your beloved smother around, you'd never has *any* fun, right?
Re CLAMP and female clients/ghosts: yes. One of the worst in TB was the cult leader, whose only crime seemed to be that her cult didn't actually help the hapless bullied schoolgirl. Her punishment in this case seemed way over the top, and SeishirÅ seemed to know her from somewhere else, but where was never explained.
The whole cult chapter was such a direct parallel to the cult that Kubota and Tokito discover in Wild Adapter vol. 3 (written ~2005) that I wondered whether Minekura-sensei was parodying it, or whether it's just a common trope in manga. In contrast, the cult leader in WA was actually up to something bad.