Saint Marie 2
Posted: June 21, 2007 Filed under: Saint Marie 2 Comments »There’s also a vague romance going on in the plot, not just between the main character and two potential interests (one who may be toying with her! gasp), but between other characters, too. Other characters who you may or may not remember from previous chapters. The character designs admittedly help out with keeping everyone straight, but there are still a lot of characters who get gender confused and enough similar-looking characters that it’s hard to keep the active participants straight. There are lengthy appendices in the backs of both volumes detailing lots of background info on all the characters. It was kind of annoying.
The plot could use a little work too, because it turns into these weird random battles that may be taking place in several places at once (as does the main battle in this volume), so it becomes less about chess and more about psychic wars. I think the chess was symbolic anyway, but whatever. I’m not really big into psychic wars, but the plot was still pretty good, I liked the various uses of power, and like I said, I would have kept reading it to the end and probably liked it okay.
I apologize for the reviews for both volumes. Noone is going to read this series anyway, so I didn’t need to go into depth or make sense. Hm.
I actually read both volumes that are out about five or six years ago. Since I discovered scanlations, I’ve been trying and trying and TRYING to find the rest of this scanlated by fans- any ideas? I REALLY WANT TO FINISH READING THIS!
It would be harder to find since it’s a Korean series, and I don’t think very many of them are done as scanslations. I would be interested in the end of this one, too.