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Wish is a
shoujo
manga series created by
CLAMP.
Manga (Books)
| Name |
Publisher |
ISBN |
| English Wish Volume 1 |
Tokyopop |
ISBN 1591820340 |
| English Wish Volume 2 |
Tokyopop |
ISBN 159182060X |
| English Wish Volume 3 |
Tokyopop |
ISBN 1591820618 |
| English Wish Volume 4 |
Tokyopop |
ISBN 1591820804 |
Story
The story centres around the lives of Kohaku, an angel, and Shuichiro
Kudo, a mortal doctor. One day while walking home from work, Shuichiro
notices Kohaku stuck on a tree and being attacked by a crow. He gets rid
of the crow and pulls Kohaku free of the tree.
In return, Kohaku offers to grant Shuichiro a wish. However, Shuichiro
is pretty happy with things as they are (he has a decent home, money,
looks and job), so he doesn't want anything. However, Kohaku is
honour-bound to grant the wish, so she stays with him.
The story then charts on how their relationship develops with the help
or hindrance of other angelic/demonic/mortal characters subsequently met.
The story runs for four volumes, and by the end Shuichiro wishes for
Kohaku to be with him. However, he dies shortly after making this wish
(the cause is unknown) so Kohaku goes into a deep sleep for 100 years to
wait for his reincarnation, and she and the new Shuichiro live happily
ever after.
Characters
The main characters are as follows:
Kohaku
Kohaku is a trainee angel. Being only a trainee, she can only maintain
a full-size form during daylight - at night she shrinks and is only about
a foot tall.
She is also quite accident prone, both because she got trapped in the
tree Shuichiro saved her from and because she usually gets her subsequent
attempts to repay Shuichiro wrong in some way.
As stated above, Shuichiro's kindness in saving her requires that she
grant him a wish, but he isn't interested, so she must stay with him until
he makes a wish.
Later on in the story God requires that Kohaku come back to heaven
despite her continuing debt to Shuichiro, as Kohaku has the job of singing
to the tree of life which new angels come from, so that the new angels
hatch.
However, so strong is her affection for him by then that she goes back
to Earth without God's permission. For this, he appears to punish her by
stripping away her powers for 100 years.
This is not a punishment, however, as Shuichiro dies shortly
afterwards, and her loss of powers means she can sleep for the 100 years
it will take for Shuichiro to be reborn.
At the end of these 100 years she reawakens and live happily ever after
with the new Shuichiro.
Shuichiro Kudo I
The first Shuichiro Kudo is the one who rescues Kohaku from the tree
where she is trapped. For this he is granted a wish, but isn't interested
as he has everything he wants.
This Shuichiro is a doctor/surgeon and is generally kind and trusting,
but isn't one to seek other people's company - something that is remedied
throughout the course of the story by the two angels, two demons and two
assistants who all move into his house.
However, when Kohaku is called back to Heaven he realises how much he
is in love with her, and when she comes back he makes his wish - for her
to be with him.
Shortly afterward, however, he dies unexpectedly (cause unknown).
Shuichiro Kudo II
The other Shuichiro Kudo is born 100 years after the last one was, and
has the same soul as the previous one.
This Shuichiro is a student at the time he appears in the story, and
comes across the house where his previous self lived. Kohaku then appears,
offers to grant him a wish in place of the one she couldn't fulfil for his
past self, and asks to be with him
Despite having no memory of his old self and hence no memory of Kohaku,
he quickly gets back into the swing of things and asks to be with Kohaku.
And so they live happily ever after.
Hisui
Hisui is an angel master - one of the four angels who each control one
of the four elements - earth, air, fire and water. Hisui is the water
angel master.
Hisui is the reason Kohaku came to Earth the first time, as she eloped
with the demon Kokuyo and Kohaku asked for permission to look for her.
She eventually reveals herself to Kohaku, and also reveals that she is
in love with Kokuyo and intends to stay on earth.
Shuichiro offers to let Hisui and Kokuyo stay in his house, and this is
where they stay for the next 100 years after offering to look after the
sleeping Kohaku.
Koryu
Koryu is the demon equivalent of Kohaku - he can only maintain a
full-size form at night, and at daytime is only about a foot tall.
Koryu's attitude toward Kohaku is a bit of a mystery, as he/she (it is
not clear which) in turns helps and hinders Kohaku.
Kokuyo
Kokuyo is one of the sons of Satan, and falls in love with Hisui.
As stated in Hisui's entry, he and Hisui start living at Shuichiro's
house, and watch over Kohaku when she sleeps.
Kokuyo is also aware of the first Shuichiro's impending death, but God
keeps stopping him from telling anyone else so as to make sure things go
as they should.
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