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Don't know quite what you're looking for - and bear in mind, Tokyo Pop translations are pretty universally not so great - but, 'The World Belong to Me', which the copyright notice still lists by it's proper title of 'The History of S & M', involving some frilly schoolgirl things, yes, but beside/beyond that, there's time travel, eunich swordsmen, time travel through France, paranoia, rape, and magick books getting torn up and paper-mached into living dolls. And stuff.
'Please Save my Earth' is about a schoolgirl who doesn't particularly flash her undies at anyone, and happens to be reincarnated from an alien, a set of which used to spy on the Earth from their gardeny moon base. Things happen. People die, fall in love, die again; there's a psycho kid who's still kinda cute.
'Fake' is about two cops in NYC and their relationship, basically slapstick comedy with some action interruptions, prolonging the actual romancey/sexy stuff to about one kiss per volume.
'Tokyo Babylon' is about a 'taking care of business' styled psychic/medium in, well, Tokyo, and his jobs, the sad and/or horrifying situations folks get into and then die and remain in, as well as his sister, and a vetinarian with a suspiciously cheery and vicious outlook. Things go upkill and then very downhill from there. By CLAMP. Has very nice clothes. Lots of them.
My suggestion is, skim some of the descriptions on the backs, just like you would for regular prose books or videos or something, and between that and a quick glance at pages seven, twelve, and thirty-four, you'll know probably whether it's gonna work for you.
Warning: Tokyo Pop does have a habit, with some titles, of cleaning them up for the unbright anglo-speaking/reading audience. These range from being not-too-bad, to outright horrible and insulting. |
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