Full Moon Vol 1 I Want to Sing

Product Description Sneak preview DVD inserted into June 2006 issue of Shojo Beat magazine Mitsuki Koyama dreams of becoming a singer...but she only has one year left to live! With the help of Takuto and Meroko, two Spirits of Death, she passes an audition, gets a manager, and starts recording her first song! Watch Mitsuki as she tries to make her dreams a reality in the first volume of Full Moon O Sagashite! Contains 4 Episodes: I Want to Sing! My Promise to Eichi Along Came the Manager Thoughts on a Song Also available from VIZ Media is the Full Moon 7-volume manga series from the Top 10 artist Arina Tanemura, the creator of Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. Amazon.com Like Fancy Lala, the broadcast series Full Moon (2002) involves a young girl juggling two identities. Twelve-year-old Mitsuki wants to be a singer because she promised her sort-of-boyfriend she'd become one. Her disproving grandmother's opposition doesn't deter her. Kindly Dr. Wakaoji say she needs an operation for a malignant growth in her throat, but she refuses because it might damage her voice. Then Meroko and Takuto, two "death spirits," appear and tell Mitsuki she has only one year to live. She doesn't mind--if she can become a singer first. Takuto transforms Mitsuki into a healthy 15-year-old, so she can enter an audition contest. When she wins, Mitsuki pretends to be two people, with the connivance of Dr. Wakaoji and the death spirits. Full Moon plays like a slushy amalgam of Love Story and Fancy Lala. It's clearly aimed at young girls who want a sweet, doomed heroine to cry over. (Unrated, suitable for ages 12 and older: material about death may upset young children) --Charles Solomon