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Yume Kira Dream Shoppe

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Yume-Kira: Dream Shoppe
ゆめゆめ煌々堂
(Yume-yume Kira-kira Dō)
Demographic Shōjo
Genre fantasy, supernatural
Manga
Author Aqua Mizuto
Publisher Flag of JapanShogakukan
Flag of the United StatesViz
Serialized in Flag of JapanSho-Comi
Flag of the United States Shojo Beat
Original run 2005 – 2005
Volumes 1

Yume-Kira: Dream Shoppe (ゆめゆめ煌々堂 Yume-yume Kira-kira Dō?) is a manga series by Aqua Mizuto. It ran in Shogakukan's Sho-comi and was serialized in Viz's Shojo Beat magazine from April 2007 to July 2007. The manga composes of a collection of short stories connected by the concept of the Dream Shoppe; as a result, it introduces new characters with each chapter and how the Dream Shoppe comes to change the characters' lives.

Contents

Story

Rin is the mysterious shopkeeper of the Yume Kira Dream Shoppe, a magical storefront shop which flies through the sky at dusk. Rin listens for wishes that travel on the wind and, aided by an assistant named Alpha, offers magical wares to grant these wishes at the cost of something dear to the customer.

Characters

Rin
The mysterious but kind shopkeeper of the Yume Kira Dream Shoppe. Rin's shop is filled with wonderous items and Rin offers them to customers as a means to grant their wishes... at a price. It is a mystery whether or not Rin is male or female, although it is revealed at the end of the volume that Rin is female during to a conversation between Jack and Alpha. Jack's younger brother King has a major crush on her.
Alpha (α)
Rin's assistant, an excitable plush rabbit without a mouth which can speak and move on its own. He originally belonged to a lonely girl named Noa, who confided in Alpha often. Wanting to end her loneliness, he wished to be able to speak and move to help her; Rin appeared to him, offering the means to do so until Christmas at the price of Alpha's eye. However, when the time came to collect his fee, Rin chose to take all of Alpha to as a new assistant.
Jack
A pirate and King's older brother, a responsible and level-headed young man. Together, Jack and King sail across the Labrynth Sea on their ship, the Silver Queen. He appears to have a close and understanding relationship with Rin. The brothers deliver goods to Rin's Dream Shoppe in the dusk sky.
King
Jack's younger brother, upbeat and somewhat reckless, but friendly and generous. He is infatuated with Rin and wishes to marry her. Though he first appears as a young adult, he is actually just a child. He was self-conscious about being younger than Rin, so he changed his appearance to look her age.
Hazuki
A tree who considers itself a failure because it is unable to blossom. It falls in love with a young composer, whose music gives it strength. Rin offers the tree the power to become a human so it may confess its love for the composer, but at the cost of all its beautiful leaves. When she finally blossoms, Rin gives her a drink of green tea containing the Wings of the Thousand Year Crane (since she paid too much) to allow her to continue living as a human.
Kana Shinya
A young composer who stays in a hospital because he has a tumour in his brain that slowly takes away the use of his hands. The sound of his music gives Hazuki strength to begin blossoming. He is initially cynical and cold because the pop group he was supposed to tour with found a replacement when he became hospitalized. He finds inspiration again when he falls in love with Hazuki, who wishes to give up her life to cure him of his disease.
Noa Ozawa
A shy girl who often confides in her plush rabbit, Alpha, and is happy when Alpha suddenly develops the ability to speak and move. While she was initially hindered by her dependence on relieving her loneliness with Alpha's company, the plush rabbit eventually helps her find the courage to admit her feelings to the boy she likes.
Yuki
The boy Noa likes, who has a slightly strange sense of humour. Yuki finds Noa's antics charming and likes her in return. He does not know Noa's own feelings for him until Alpha brings him a present that Noa had made for Yuki, but could not bring herself to give him.
Miki
A young woman in college who shows up at the Dream Shoppe, wounded and missing her memory. She is allowed to use the King's Hourglass to relive a portion of her past in hopes of changing it. She rediscovers her love for Renji, but is unable to reveal her doubts concerning their relationship.
Renji Yakumo
A talented jewellery designer who goes to Miki's college and wishes to study art abroad someday. He and Miki start going out after they become friends. Though he is quite busy, he makes time for Miki and truly cares about her, despite the fact Miki feels as they have not become closer during the time they have spent together.
Koyoru Hino
A girl who is too shy to even speak to the guy she likes and longs for a way to meet him. She finds herself in the Labrynth Sea and is subsequently brought to the Dream Shoppe by Jack and King. Koyoru accepts the Nightmare Candy in hopes of finding a way to change herself in exchange for the forms she tries with the Nightmare Candy she chooses not to become.
Eito Kudoh
An rising actor and model who attends Koyoru's school, though he is frequently absent because of his career. Koyoru is in love with him and to get closer to him, accepts the Nightmare Candy to enter his dreams and find a way to become closer to him. He appears to be kind and friendly, especially when he meets Koyoru.

Chapters

  1. The Sound that Brings Blossoms
  2. Beyond the Red Eye
  3. A Promise to a Grain of Time
  4. The Labyrinth Wave of Dreams

Relics

  • Silver Rabbit's Clock
  • Moon Maiden's Tears - An item that allows the drinker use the moon's power to transform into anything it wants until the next full moon. According to Alpha, the "Maiden's Tears" series are a big hit at the Yume Kira Dream Shoppe.
  • Wings of the Thousand Year Crane - The wings of a crane said to have lived for one thousand years. If drunk in green tea, it will grant the drinker one hundred years of life.
  • Space Garnet - A jewel the colour of Alpha's eye that comes from a part of space not shared by any world. Its magical properties allows the plush rabbit to move and speak on its own. The effects work only until Christmas.
  • Forest Maiden's Tears - Presumbly part of the "Maiden's Tears" series of items. Alpha uses it to decorate a Christmas tree.
  • Purple Coral - Alpha uses it to decorate a Christmas tree.
  • Snow Ring - Alpha uses it to decorate a Christmas tree.
  • King's Hourglass - An hourglass that can chisel time into golden sand, allowing someone to travel through time. As the grains of sand drop into the lower bulb, the past will move to the present, regardless of the actions of the person who uses it. Normally not for sale, Rin makes an exception to allow Miki to use it.
  • Nightmare Candy - Take one and go to bed and one can enter someone else's dream in any form of their choosing. The candy allows a person to try different forms and become the form most to their liking in reality in exchange for the forms they have rejected. Should a person choose to remain as they are, the rejected dream forms return to being candy.

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