Pretear - Vol. 1
Sixteen-year-old Himeno Awayuki feels uprooted when her widowed novelist  father marries a gazillionairess: she moves into a vast mansion run by her snooty  stepmother and two icy stepsisters. While she's trying to cope with these  changes, she meets the seven Leafe (Lee-fay) Knights, magical beings who  are fighting the demon larva planted by Fenrir, the Princess of Destruction. To  overcome these life-draining monsters the Knights need the Prétear, the  Princess of Light whose soul can merge with each of theirs to destroy the larvae.  Himeno finds herself facing classical magical girl problems: trying to overcome  her natural klutziness, learning to use her latent powers, falling for gentle  Sasame, quarreling with diamond-in-the-rough Hayato and befriending the other  Knights. This appealing but lightweight adventure-comedy plays like a mixture  ofFushigi Yugi,Blue Seed, andCinderella. (Rated 15 and  older: violence, brief nudity, alcohol use, minor profanity and risqué humor)--Charles Solomon