Backstage Prince 2
Posted: July 5, 2007 Filed under: Backstage Prince 3 Comments »How was Backstage Prince 2? It was surprisingly good, actually. It still relied a bit too much on the misunderstanding plot device for my taste, but otherwise I liked it a lot due to the couple being together instead of the usual shoujo tease. The characters are both sort of one-dimensional, but I can’t really expect more from such a short series.Really, it’s just very cute. I thought it was worth every penny I spent on it. Both characters have kind of adorable personalities, and the heavy focus on kabuki is certainly a lot different than the usual two-volume shoujo romance. I would have liked this a lot as a longer series which went over kabuki as well as developed the relationship between the main couple further. I’m completely ignorant of anything and everything about that particular form of drama, so I would have liked a bit more of a lesson. Granted, the intended audience for this would already be familiar with Kabuki, but I would have liked to have seen something like Swan’s technique of giving a brief plot summary for many different performances featured. But that’s all hypothetical.
I would also be interested in any longer series by this author. I’m too lazy to check and see if they exist in English right now, but this seems a lot to me like a fairly rookie effort, and I imagine later, longer series from her would be quite fantastic.
So yes, a very, very cute shoujo series that was definitely worth my time and money for the two volumes it lasted. It’s not mind-blowing amazing or addictive, but it does enough things right to be very satisfying.
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Where’d you read one? Is it on-line?
No, it came out maybe a year or so ago. They’re Shojo Beat books, but I’m not sure if the story ran in the magazine or not.