Sooo, I was saying that lately I have been drifting toward slice of life manga of late.  That is true but I still love a good series that is full of stuff that will simply never happen in this world.  Enchanter is a great example of this, I happened across Enchanter, much like Tetrgramaton Labyrinth by accident, the cover of volume one caught my eye and a I added it to my stack of manga.  After flipping through it a bit I knew that this was winner, with its laugh out loud humor, a fair share of action and nearly but not quite gratuitous fan service.  The main thrust of the story is about a highschool student (imagine that, a manga where the protagonist is highschool student , but I digress) named Haruhiko and the demon Eukanaria, who wants his body, and just his body.  If Eukanaria can sleep with Haruhiko she can extract his soul and replace it with the soul of her dead lover Fulcanelli, an Enchanter.  To keep this from happening happening Haruhiko takes on Fulcanelli's power and becomes an enchanter himself, keeping his soul, but having to continuosly rebut the advances of Eukanaria (who is all hips and tits), who did I mention looks just like the girl he has the hots for.  If that wern't enough there is the occansional demon attack and other stumbling blocks to a normal life being thrown at our somewhat reluctant hero.  On a curious note the distinguishing feature of enchanters is complete heterochromopathy, that is having eyes of distinctly different colors. (Digression #2, partial heterochromopathy is not uncommon, this is when one or both eyes have areas of the iris that are different shades or colors.  Complete heterochromopathy is rare in humans, but less so in certain dog and cat breeds.)  There are currently five volumes of Enchanter out from DMP, which deserves credit for sticking with the larger volume size and the use of color dust jackets, much like most manga in Japan.  I wish that was something that more companies did, but at least one company does it.

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