Title: 私の狼さん (My Wolf)
Artist/Author: 藤原ここあ
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 178pp., w/furigana
Volume: 1/1
Original Serialization: Monthly GANGAN Wing 9/00, 4/01-7/01
First Printing: 9/27/01
Rating: 3/4

This single volume was kinda non-sequitur for me. I had come into it expecting a story that that has a beginning and an end, but for the most part, the chapters were loosely tied together. There was a central theme about the mystery of Subaru's right hand, but I had to read a few pages over before I got everything straight in my head. I don't think "dear" follows the same Lycanthrope situation. I did enjoy the stories though, despite re-reading a bit of it.

Bonuses are a color first page, a mini-comic at the end, and a letter from the author to his fans.

1. 小桃 (Komomo), a young girl who is living by herself after her mother's passing, wants to be a hero and her first task that she assigns herself is to defeat the king of the people who possess magic. Her attack fails and instead, 魔王 (King), takes her in and falls in love with her. When his servants disapprove, he renounces his throne. When his successor wants to kill him though, he reveals his true power as a Lycanthrope.

2. Komomo and the King are wandering the villages in search of work (Komomo still wants to be a hero). She hears about a girl who is to be wed against her will to a monster. In exchange, the monster will no longer terrorize their village. Komomo offers herself as the bride and at the right moment, defeat the monster. She has some trouble during battle, and so the King helps her out.

3. Komomo tries helping out at a village fesitval and causes a lot of trouble. At the end of the day, she and King spend the night looking at the fireworks.

4. The secret of Lycanthrope is revealed. Lycanthrope is a right arm that gets passed down from generation to generation. Each time a person with the wolf arm dies, the candidates for the successors have their arms chopped off and grafted with this wolf arm. If it's not a match, they turn into monsters, if it is a match, they become the king. However, Lycanthrope lives off blood, the arm is slowly eating away at him. Komomo thinks she sees him die, but in fact, he gets healed by one of this former servants and has a regular arm back. Since he's just a regular person now, he tells her that his name is 昴 (Subaru).

5. This is a one chapter story, isolated from the previous four chapters. It goes through how Subaru has the ability of the wolf. When Komomo gets attacked, saves her and the chapter ends with them in an embrace.

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