In a world not unlike modern day Japan, a certain candy company put out a new product that accidentally gave 100 random people candy-generation superpowers. Not long after that, someone with the power to generate lollipops used them to cause massive destruction and devastation in Tokyo. Since then, lollipop-user Tsumugi has been on the run and determined to keep her powers a secret, for fear that she be mistakenly arrested as the culprit, which she is not. But the kicker is that no one has any reason to believe this because, as far as anyone knows, there can be only one kind of candy power per person. When she finally is discovered, Tsumugi is recruited by the candy-power-using police to help clear her name and hunt down the actual culprit.
That is Candy Flurry in a nutshell.
This manga is funny enough in its own way, often resorting to what I have previously referred to as “Japanese-style humor”, where someone does/says something completely mundane/unusual out of nowhere, completely breaking the tone of an otherwise normal/unusual scene. The battle system is very unique and likable as well. I greatly enjoyed the Whole Cake Island arc of One Piece, filled with several similar food/candy-using baddies, but even they didn’t do crazy awesome things like:
· Using popcorn kernels as bombs
· Using donuts as wheels
· Using chewing gum to make sticky spider web nets
· Using macarons as Venus fly traps to open up and snap shut on the opponent, also encasing their immobilized parts in sticky goo
Sadly, this series has recently ended, after only three volumes. It may not have lasted long, but I do not regret having read it. Who knows-maybe if this series is translated and sold here across the pond, I just might purchase a copy.
No comments:
Post a Comment