Yumetsukai (Manga)

The Yumetsukai anime starts in the spring, so after looking at the story explanation and art on the official site I thought I'd check out the manga by Riichi Ueshiba. You know, stuff involving dreams sounds neat and all and the character design looks kinda cute... well, it wasn't quite what I expected to say the least. Hmmm, what to say... it's an odd mix of occult and eroi and guro, a good bit of which can't be shown on TV (^^;;) I don't believe I can explain what happens in the manga well at all so I'll just introduce the three Yumetsukai (there are 9 in all) we meet in volume one here. As the name implies, the Yumetsukai are people that solve various incidents involving people's dreams in some way or another, and they've got special powers that help them do that, of course.

 
The first Yumetsukai we meet is Rinko-chan (CV: Kei Shindou. Rumi-chan in Tetsunoshin), 9 years old, a "super shougakusei" (what she calls herself). Pretty smart kid, and quite kawaii :) You can see her using her Yumetsukai powers there on the right.

Rinko-chan's older sister, Touko (CV: Ayako Kawasumi), is also a Yumetsukai. She's a bit weird...

 

But the weirdest of them all is definitely Tachibana (CV: Tomokazu Seki)... besides having weird fashion sense, he's a lolicon. 12 and under for him as that last panel says (^^;;)

...quite an interesting bunch, yeah? (^^;;) Anyways, it would seem that the anime's going to be one of those "use the basic setting and characters from the manga to make an original story for the anime" things due to the nature of the manga. The manga story itself (broken into 2 different sections.. volumes 1-3 are one story, and 4-6 are one) wasn't exactly interesting to me, being rather confusing among other things... but I think the anime staff certainly could make something interesting with these characters and that idea of dreams and such, so I'll be checking this one out come April.