Enough of my idol worship, but Wish has become my favourite ever since CLAMP's production of Rg Veda. I enjoyed reading Rg Veda manga for its extravagant art work and its otherworldly melodramatic story plot which brings a fundamental success to CLAMP in the early 90s. CLAMP has successfully turned Rg Veda the manga into a legend that still pounds in its readers' heart whenever they think of it from time to time. However, although CLAMP has other well-known productions in the years followed, I don't find an impression as strong as their early works, probably because CLAMP have changed to make their works more to the acceptance of children and their parents. Meanwhile, X has the same extravagant designs and drawings as Rg Veda, but I don't like it as it is too... gloomy, I supposed? Anyway, Wish revitalized my excitement towards CLAMP manga because although it is completely imagination, it is loving, fun and short and sweet. (Ah! Yes! That's it! SHORT & SWEET is the thing I've always been expecting from CLAMP!) It simply ends in 4 volumes, and I love it from start 'til the end. (I really hate to memorize the 7 Seals and 7 Dragons year after year until God knows when...) 

Kohaku is my most favourite character in Wish, and I particularly love his chibi (small) look. CLAMP knows how to make SD characters adorable, but I just love to see Kohaku being petted by Shuuichirou. His smile is absolutely angelic! However, I don't like how he looks when he is sad with tears in the manga, especially when he cries in his chibi form. His eyes look like dead fish eyes to me then. But the happy ending is what I enjoyed most in reading Wish manga. People may compare Wish to Clover (also by CLAMP) that they both have their characters wanting to attain happiness with someone, but I favour Wish's simplicity and strait forwardness. Clover is a little bit too Sci-Fic that it lacks Wish's warmth. I can see that CLAMP have viewed modern and future human beings as a people who seldom reveal or express their feelings to avoid getting hurt. There is often some "forbiddeness" concerning passion and love in many CLAMP stories. However, CLAMP have allowed all the Wish characters' passion be revealed and expressed within the four manga. 

The drawings of Wish is done by Mick Nekoi, not Satsuki Igarashi who did Rg Veda. The style of art is simple yet pretty, although CLAMP have apologized in the short comics at the end of Wish 4 that they didn't make the archangels any prettier. I think I am satisfied with Hisui's lustrous eyes, as well as the poker face of Shuuichirou. I have to figure less than I have to with X, which is often cramped with difficult pictures that require time for the eyes to adjust to. 

About the Wish Gift Box production, I must say that I love the Wish song very, very much! It tells about how Kohaku is waiting eagerly for Shuuichirou to come to meet him again after his death. I was really crying with tears when I was doing the translation. Perhaps only those who have been separated from their loved ones or family would share the same feelings as mine. Wish and the song make me start to think how difficult it is for two persons to always stay together. I have seen too often how my friends have dumped their partners or having been unfaithful to each other, and so many married couples are divorcing in these days. Then I remember how a poor farmer has carried his ill wife throughout China to beg for money to heal her, and how some people have donated their blood and organs to save the lives of their family members. But are these JUST A FEW examples of human affection, or are they ALL that we can find in these days? 

I wish that we or our offspring would not learn true love only from stories, myths or even museums in the coming future.