The Essentials
Name: Onegai Twins, Please Twins
Genre:: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Tankoubon: 1
Serialized In: Dengeki Daioh
Released: 2005
Based on: Please Twins anime
Story: Please!
Art: Akikan
Published By (Japan): Media Works
Published By (US): DrMaster
Scores
Story: 8/10 (x 3 = 24 pts)
Art: 8/10 (x 3 = 24 pts)
Gut Score: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Total: 80/100 (80%)
Review
The Onegai Twins manga is, as noted above, an adaptation of the 13-episode anime series. Onegai Twins is about three teenagers: Maiku, Karen, and Miina, who all find their way to a house that they saw on TV during a national news story two in the past - a house that each of them have a picture of, behind two children - a boy and a girl - playing in an inflatable pool. The boy, Maiku, gets to the house first, gets a part time job, and starts renting it. However, soon after that, both girls show up on his doorstep, both claiming to be his twin sister. It’s impossible for them to tell which one is Maiku’s real sister from the photo, and Maiku doesn’t want to just throw out a potential sibling, so the three live together until the mystery can be resolved. However, this creates an awkward situation where relationships start to form, yet no one is quite sure who is the sibling and who isn’t.
The fact that this single-volume manga tries to push material from 13 episodes of the anime into about 200 pages is quite an ambitious feet, and yet, amazingly, it works pretty well considering. This is mostly complished by putting in things from the first 4 or 5 episodes, then skipping most of the filler in between and going straight to the conclusion. While one might miss out on all the sub-stories that make the anime funny, the manga is still able to keep it’s coherency while not feeling too rushed. The art is also pretty good as well, with it basically looking like the anime in manga form.
The manga also changes some things, such as whose point of view a scene is seen from to give the manga some freshness. However, the biggest difference is how the conclusion plays out and, in a way, gives the manga’s ending even more finality than the ending in the anime, as it goes more in depth into the circumstances behind the trio’s abandonment.
I’m not sure if the differences in the manga are big enough to warrant reading it if you’ve already seen the anime, but it is a single volume and quick read, so you won’t cost one much if one does choose to check it out. In any case, the manga may be a good, quick read for someone to get introduced to the series if they haven’t seen the anime yet.
First Read: August 2006
Do I Own: Yes
Do I Recommend: Indifferent
