Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
Author: Tanemura Arina
Total number of volumes: 7
Genera: "magical-girl series" (think: Sailormoon)
Anime Status: Was an anime that ran for about a year on Saturday nights at 6:28.
Synopsis:
This is a Sailormoon-ish magical-girl manga about a girl named Maron, whose parents leave her at a very early age, and she lives alone. Every day, she checks her mail box, hoping there's a letter from her parents, but there never is. She prides herself on being a "strong girl", but inside, she's falling apart. Her friend, Miyako, and the love-interest, Chiaki, and her angel-friend, Fin, are what keep her going. Oh, and did I mention she's also a super hero? ^_^ She's also Kaitou Jeanne, a super-hero who fights off demons who possess humans who own beautiful pictures. Jeanne has to "checkmate" the demons to get the chess pieces out of the pictures, and then the demon goes away and Jeanne replaces the original picture with a new one. That's why she's called a "kaitou" (sort of like "thief"), but the cops can't complain since Jeanne's replacement pictures are prettier than the original demon-possessed ones ^-^
The deal with Jeanne being a superhero and all is that in a past life, she was Joan of Arc. This has a very Christian-ish theme, and stuff...wow, that was a very coherent summary....
Here's something rare, I love the BGM in the anime: lots of organ-ish Bach, Beethoven, etc. Very cool.
