L'Etoile Solitaire (溶けた氷 -エトワール・ソリティア-, Toketa Kōri - Itowāru Soritia, "Thawed Ice: The Lone Star") is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuno Ogami. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga through its imprint, Juné, on October 15, 2007.[1]

L'Etoile Solitaire
Cover of L'Etoile Solitaire as published by Digital Manga Publishing
GenreYaoi, Romance
Manga
Written byYuno Ogami
English publisher
PublishedOctober 15, 2007

Reception edit

Katherine Farmar, writing for Comics Village, found that although the story was formulaic, it was still "charming" and not a "soulless retread".[2] Mania Entertainment's Patricia Beard found that the misunderstandings between Micah's American culture and Yuuki's Japanese culture were refreshing, but found the story of the takeover was done away with too quickly, leaving the story aimless.[3] Active Anime's Holly Ellingwood found that the story was "an entertaining dramatic romance with a fine share of melodrama for the aspiring couple."[4] Jason Thompson found the story "completely predictable", the characters "two-dimensional", and the art "stiff", calling it overall "a particularly weak effort".[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "L'Etoile Solitaire". Juné Manga. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  2. ^ Farmar, Katherine (July 1, 2009). "L'Etoile Solitaire". Comics Village. Archived from the original on September 20, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Beard, Patricia (November 15, 2007). "L\'Etoile Solitaire Vol. #01 [sic]". Mania. Demand Media. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  4. ^ Ellingwood, Holly (September 23, 2007). "L'Etoile Solitaire (Advance Review)". Active Anime. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  5. ^ Thompson, Jason (March 25, 2010). "365 Days of Manga, Day 191: L'Etoile Solitaire". Unbound Worlds. Penguin Random House.

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