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Mod note: This review was originally posted for "Don't Say" and has subsequently merged into "Comic Lily".

Alright so I won't say much about this little one-shot. I mean, I suppose I could make a terrible pun with the name but... I won't do that.

I happened to stumble upon this with Mangafox's "Surprise!" feature, and being a sucker for cute shoujo-ai, I gave it a shot.

Don't Say it just a little shoujo-ai one-shot about a school's 2-person braodcasting club and I guess why there are only two members.

Story: 4
Well I already summed it up. Not much to it really. At the very least it ... wasn't confusing- Pretty straightforward.

Art: 10
The art was what kept me going. It was absolutely fantastic. You can really tell that the mangaka is a CLAMP fan =) (Bear with me- as an illustrator myself I am going to gush on this part a bit).
The whole thing felt like a very refined sketchbook or series of etchings- Every line was immaculate, and the hatching was so precise and was often used instead of screens. The mangaka also never just did 'flat' black shapes- you can always see his/her penwork in every bit of each panel.
The backgrounds were also surprisingly well done. You always know where the characters are, and you feel a little bit like you're there. And the uniforms- They were so fun and cute and unique! Impractical, but who cares? They were super cute. I love their fluffy sleeves and poofy skirts.

Characters: 4
Even for a 24-page one-shot the characters were fairly underdeveloped. They were clear enough though that there was no confusion with what was going on.

Enjoyment: 7
It's such a quick read, and yeah, it's sort of bland, but that art. Mmm. I admit, I kept reading it for the beautiful artwork.

Overall: 6
It's short, sweet, not very amazing, but worth a gander. It's only 24 pages, you can get through it in about 10 minutes. So, if you like beautiful art and shoujo ai it's worth a read. I wouldn't caution anyone against it- there's nothing offensive in it (unless you are opposed to cute lesbians), and the art, once again, is just gorgeous. But, on the other hand, you really aren't missing anything if you skip over this.

Well seeing as there are no reviews for this, I figured I would write one. It's my first one by the way, so I apologize for my poor formatting skills.

Miyuki-chan in Wonderland is what I refer to as CLAMP throwing out all of their built-up sexual tension into one tiny manga volume. As many CLAMP fans know, CLAMP doesn't often do super-sexual things. Their most sexual work, other than this one, was Chobits- Which still just felt like an ecchi shoujo rather than a shounen.

But anyway. Miyuki-chan in Wonderland is essentially a yuri ecchi manga with very pretty art and an Alice in Wonderland theme, ... as the name would imply. Each chapter is a different story that usually stats out with our heroine, a high school girl named Miyuki, in some every-day situation- Being late to school, brushing her hair in the mirror, watching TV, playing video games going to the movies, etc. Then, something odd happens and she gets sucked into an alternate dimension of sorts- and it's a different world in every chapter that always relates to whatever she was doing at the time. In every world she gets sucked into, she invariably runs into a series of scantly-clad women, all trying to grope, seduce, undress, or otherwise sexually violate her in some form or another. Amusingly enough, there's never even any real nudity- Just... Everything else.

Story: 4
Well I pretty much summed it up in the above paragraph. It repeats itself in every chapter with new characters and a new world, but the same formula.

Art: 9
Alright it's CLAMP. Their art is superb- hard to deny that. To top it off, it's their old style, which was much more rich with beautiful detail than the style they use now. The only reason I did not give the art a 10 was because I felt that the costumes, which CLAMP is normally AMAZING at, were very dissapointing. With so many characters, I expected to at least be looking at tons of pretty clothes.

Characters: 5
The only reason this even got a 5 was because the last chapter features the females from X, which is my favorite manga and the reason I even purchased this silly thing. So forgive my bias. That being said, the characters are.. well... They are what they are. They don't really seem to have personalities outside of wanting to molest Miyuki. Miyuki's personality is nothing to talk about either- She gets sucked into a world, gets freaked out (although less freaked out than the average person would be in this situation), and has the cycle repeated.

Enjoyment: 7
Honestly I just like looking at CLAMP's art, and seeing the X females was a huge plus and made me smile. So that's the only reason this got a 7, but for anyone who is not an X or CLAMP fan, I doubt you'll enjoy it much unless you really want to see some badly done yuri.

Overall: 5
Yeah it's pretty bad. Honestly, unless you're a CLAMP and or X fan, I wouldn't bother. It's pretty, and I did get a couple chuckles, but that's about it. And with how much anime/manga has changed today, any ecchi/yuri fans would be SORELY dissapointed by this- There is no actual nudity or any kissing, just a lot of groping and such.