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DearS, Vol. 1

2005Peach-Pit

3.8/5

This manga is amazing, I'll tell you why. I had so much deep emotions from reading this story and it is one of my favourite manga. The concept is similar to Chobits and A.I Love You!, but I prefer Dears the best.The story is about alien spieces called the Dears coming to Earth on a friendly visit. The aliens attend normal high school and do home-stay. What I really liked about it is that everything happened in agreement and understanding of both sides, usually stories about aliens and their purpose seems strange but in this story I find the purpose to be very sane. Dears are actually slaves in their original planet, this part of the story I find really deep and sympthaizing (I'll explain why), but before coming to earth they learned human language, science, ethics and try to act normally, but their slave nature is still there. The main character is Ren, a beautiful defect alien who wasn't meant to come to earth like the rest of the trained aliens, but she comes by mistake and is discovered thrown in the street by Takeya, the male main character whose a high school student. He found her lost and took her in and took care of her, and since she wasn't trained on the way of the human world, she treated him as her master when he didn't understand what was going on. The story is really deep, fun, innocent and sad, and the art is beautiful! I love their big eyes! It makes them look more innocent! What really touched me in this story is the meaning of love, existence and innocence. The Dears had their own brains, their own stances, but they are willing to be slave to be loved and remembered. They feel they are worth something as long as they try to satisfy their masters. There were deep moments in which even the trained Dears exposed how they really feel and their past.I realized that even as humans we might tend to act like them, to care for our loved ones and worrying of losing them and giving them all we've got, the concept of Dears are not really that kind of slaves for torture and humiliation, it's more like the feeling of containing and belonging. Yes, the characters look sexual, but that what makes it more sad to me. Despite their sexy appearance, and their submissive attitude, but they are still shown that they have lots of deep emotions and thoughts inside more than the outside appearance. When reading or watching a work, especially manga and anime, I always try to look inside the characters, their feelings and thoughts, even if it's a sexy concept. I know many sexy mangas would probably not have more depth into them, but this one has meaning. This story is one of the best reads that made me actually think and left me with a big impact in my life. I just instantly cry when I see and think of the Dears, this is one of the saddest stories I've read. It is fun, cute, sexy, innocent, like usual manga theme, but it has such deep messages that make it really emotional and sad in a good way.

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