Manga Summaries: Wanted (One Shot) by Matsuri Hino

 


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Wanted is Matsuri Hino's onshot pirate manga. The manga itself contains 3 chapters from the series and one bonus story at the end.

I will be summarizing the Official US version released by Viz.


Chapter Sections

1st Chapter: Captain Skulls
2nd Chapter: The Enemy of Pirates
3rd Chapter: The Legend of the Devil's Musical Score
Bonus Story: Spring Cherry Blossoms

 Characters (Main)

Luce (aka Skulls) 

 Armeria (aka Arto)

Story

The story is set in the 17th century at the court of Governor Lanceman. A girl, probably about 7 years old is seen singing at court to entertain the noblemen that came for the celebration. Her name is Armeria. She met the Governor's nephew Luce (probably 15 at that time)  there who was kind to her and showed her a field of Armeria flowers.The governor is depicted to be a cruel man. Because of this pirates raided the island and kidnapped Luce hoping to ransom him off to the governor. Well, being the cruel guy that he is I'm assuming that no ransom has been paid. Armeria got away safely but vowed that she will be rescuing Luce from the pirates.


8 years later. Armeria (15) Luce (about 22) met again. The how is interesting. ^_^ Armeria tracked down the pirate who kidnapped Luce. The pirate was known as Skulls. She went undercover, pretended to be a boy (aka Arto) to join the crew. There she met the pirate Skulls who to her chagrin turned out to be Skulls. Of course she doesn't know about it yet. She was found out to be a girl in the later pages of the book. She also discovered that Skulls was Luce when Skulls shouted her name when he was trying to rescue her from an attacker who boarded the ship. 


The next few chapters shows the different adventures that these two get into.


Rating:
Definitely a keeper. I have always liked Matsuri Hino. The art is amazing, not in the same level with CLAMP but she's getting there. The story was nice enough although I hope the series was longer. It is fortunate that this series was already released in English. 


Where to buy:
This can be bought from Comic Oddysey. They have branches in Robinson's Manila and Trinoma.