Cantarella 4
Posted: March 8, 2007 Filed under: Cantarella Leave a comment »For the lack of Lucrezia last volume, you get a LOT of her this time. Except, contrary to what most accounts of Lucrezia say, this Lucrezia is a weepy doormat that doesn’t do anything except lament her fate as an arranged bride for her dad to do whatever with and lust for Cesare. It’s definitely a minus. There’s one page in particular which… is so weepy shoujo it makes me question the merit of the series. Noone draws pages like that without it being a total parody of something like Aim for the Ace. Lucrezia would make a much better ruthless character, which is a shame.
Not much goes on outside of Lucrezia’s crying. Cesare and Chiaro stare longingly at each other a few times, taunting readers with things that will never be. Also, Cesare totally sets his annoying brother up for a fall, which is awesome. How anyone else thought that said brother WASN’T being set up for a fall is beyond me, but whatever.
The plot is still confusing as hell, though. Cesare can either be a demon or not be a demon, and we can either have the conquest of Italy or not, but we can not constantly have references to Cesare trying not to be a demon while Italy is being conquered. It makes for too many lame things going on at once.
This series is definitely better in chunks, because there are so many characters it’s easier to keep track of them and what they are doing when reading several volumes at once.
