Wish (manga)



Dr. Shuichiro Kudo is walking home one night when he saves a super-deformed angel named Kohaku caught in a tree by a crow. In return for its rescue, the angel offers to grant one wish. However, what does a man who has everything wish for? Thus, Kohaku decides to stay with Kudo until he decides on a wish, as well as complete its original mission of find the missing Angel Master of wind, Hisui.

A four volume manga by CLAMP, it was animated in a short music video as well as recorded as a drama cd.

If you were looking for the tropes involving wishes, see Make a Wish and Be Careful What You Wish For.


 * Beauty Equals Goodness
 * Cannot Spit It Out: Though Kokuyo tries, he can't as God
 * Cats Are Mean: Played with; they are actually demons in animal rather than human form, and for some reason, they actually really like Kudo.
 * Shinju is actually a much straighter example than Ruri or Hari. Every time he sees Shuichiro, he tries to bite him.
 * Celestial Deadline: Most angels have an adult form during the day and a chibi form at night. Vice versa for demons. If they fully master all magic, they can keep their adult forms all the time.
 * Distant Finale
 * Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: The four Angel Masters each hold power over a specific element.
 * Foe Yay: Koryuu's motive for bullying Kohaku. Ruri and Hari even point this out, much to Koryuu's annoyance.
 * God Is Evil: subverted: Sooo.....GodIsGood, only very mysterious. Which is actually surprising for Manga.
 * God also seems to accept the relationship between an Angel Master and the Son of the Devil, at least by the end of the quartet.
 * Female Angel, Male Demon: English translation only, and only for convenience of pronouns, but still present.
 * Friend to All Living Things: Kohaku
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Koryuu later on
 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Kissing Cousins: Koryuu was Kokuyo's lover and sort-of Stalker with a Crush, until Kokuyo met Hisui.
 * Meaningful Name: Most characters' names mean various gemstones (Kohaku = amber, Hisui = jade, and so on.)
 * Names to Know in Anime: From the Drama CD: Hiroko Konishi as Kohaku, Kazuya Ichijou as Kudo, Yuka Imai as Koryuu, Kikuko Inoue as Hisui, Jurota Kosugi as Kokuyo. ..
 * No Biological Sex: The angels. See Pronoun Trouble.
 * Oedipus Rex: Played with in Shuichiro's case, as it's a mother-figure, not his real mother.
 * Omake: Each manga volume has specific bonus chapters giving insight in the characters, and letting CLAMP show off how much they like the booze.
 * Only One Name
 * Our Angels Are Different: Hisui and Kohaku
 * Our Demons Are Different: Kokuyo is the Prince of Hell, but he's not exactly an horrible villain. Koryuu is as much a Jerkass, but he gets Character Development later.
 * Pronoun Trouble: While CLAMP followed the general rule of 'angels are genderless', Tokyopop chose to give all angels female pronouns, leading to some LesYay moments.
 * Reincarnation
 * Reincarnation Romance. God tries to avoid it by forbidding angels to fall for humans.
 * Revised Ending: CLAMP originally had a less than happy ending planned, but changed it into a happier one.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Usagi-san
 * She's a Man In Japan: In order to not put the series into a BL category, Tokyo Pop saw fit to change Kohaku's gender (Kohaku is technically genderless, but in human form is referred to as a boy).
 * Sleep Mode Size: See Super Deformed.
 * Super-Deformed: Trainee angels are full-size during the day and chibi during the night, while the same is true vice versa for trainee demons.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Both Kudo and Kokuyo.
 * Truce Zone: The bridge between Heaven, Hell, and Earth.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Hisui, arguably.