MiXim 11

Nobuyuki Anzai has always been a favorite of mine. While MÄR wasn't that good, Flame of Recca is one of my favorite shonen series of all time. The action was perfect and the characters were original. It had that "cool" style that seperated itself from other series by showing how badass students can get without being cheesy at all. Being one of the few mangaka that can pull off the "highschool students with powers" scenario, I was excited to find out he had already started on another series in that vain.

MiXim 11 is both similar and very different from Anzai's previous works. The 3 main characters are all bishonen (I think?) outcasts that can't get a girl. This is because they are all from Polaris and one of them has a spell cast on them that prevents girls from liking them. That is except for the girls that represent a certain constellation.

Sounds like a romance so far, right? Well it isn't (at least not fully). Yeah it starts out all cute and all with the main female characters showing interest in the main characters, but the series quickly descends into awesome fights with strange powers.

Like Mar, the main character, Ichimatsu, get's a very unconventional weapon; finger puppets! Each puppet has a different power, but they must be woken up first. Only 2 have awakened. The first one gives Ichimatsu super strength and the second transforms anything into a weapon.

The other 2 main characters are Takezo and Koume. Takezo can bring stuff out from the game he's playing on the PSP (like the main character of an action RPG). Koume gets a dog suit that lets him run fast. Koume can't really fight yet but it seems like he'll get a power up very soon.

Since Mixim is still in its early stages (not even a year yet), it's hard to make an accurate judgement. Right now, the series is showing a lot of promise and could easily end up as Anzai's best work. By this time next year, we should be at a decent place in the story. I'll have an update then.