A few months ago, at Comic Oddeysey, I saw something I've been setting my heart on since I saw it on the internet a couple of years ago-
Mai the Psychic Girl, issues 1 - 28, the complete series released by Eclipse suring 1987. I was contemplating if I should save up for it-since I already had in my possession volumes 2 and 3 of the Mai Perfect Collection.
Shortly after, I discovered that my volume 3 was eaten by the termites- my good copy at that. I took it as a sign to save up for the 1-28 issue set.
Last night, I already had paid half the downpayment, and the comic shop owner let me take home the first volume issues, 1 - 10.
JOY!!
Trivia: did you know that Mai the Psychic Girl was one of the first-ever manga titles translated and published in English?
Anyway. There was a teeny weeny disappointment though. To make more space for the first issue, they cut a couple of pages they thought were unimportant to the story line-
Mai's bath scene.
And, as pervy as I may sound, it was actually one of the reasons why I wanted to complete the series. Come on, Ikegami draws girls rather well, no matter what age he portrays.
No wonder why I can't find a first volume copy of the Perfect Collection!

The pages are there! I read about those pages on the net before!
I'll just have to find an online copy of Mai, and print em out, I guess.
But, nonetheless, it was worth it. I can't wait till I pay the second half so I can take home the entire series. The art is stunning, as simple as it may be. And, in all of Ikegami's work I've seen so far, for some reason, this has the most dynamic fight/action scenes. Even Crying Freeman's action scenes appear to be stiff.
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