[REVIEW] Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes

[rfmcdonald]

Like Leah at Hobotaku and Scott Rosenberg at Read Express, I'd expected the two-volume Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes to be a cheap commercial tie-in, just another cross-promotion. This two-volume manga probably did have its origins in something like that, but Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes turned out to be a pretty good manga in its own right, with decent art and a plot (what could possibly go wrong if isolated young teenager Hana Davis whose only friend is an imaginary Lavigne gets a demon through the mail who promises to grant her five wishes in full?) that's smartly and somewhat scarily explored, overcoming its obvious similarity to the monkey's paw story.