They know who they are, they just need to play out the situations they are given as best as they can. But in Kusakawa's worlds her characters are already finished "baking" they're fully formed. I'm usually a big advocate for heavy character-development stories. The romance element, and character development take a back-seat to the fun and adventurous stories. They always feel a bit like folk or fairy tales. A slightly fantastic story with magical elements in a world that is easy to imagine, but hard to believe in. This story too, is very much something she would write. Her art is easily distinguishable among the noise of shoujo manga. The art is typical of Nari Kusakawa work, somewhat simple with rigid pen/ink drawn lines and obnoxiously large eyes. Guell" who can remove any spilled colour from his students. She is a frequent visitor and "friend" of the school doctor "Dr. She has been paired with the bird "Yoyo", but is unfortunately a bit of a screw-up and can't seem to master the 12 secret colours. Cello, by sheer luck, has been given a chance to become a palette and is currently enrolled in the training school. Each palette is paired with a bird which are seen as the treasures of the Island. Opal is known for its palettes, or people who have the magical ability to extract colour from objects and use the colour to paint other objects: like brocade, and precious jewels. This is a shoujo story about Cello who lives on the tropical Island of Opal.
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