Princess Princess 1
Posted: December 9, 2007 Filed under: Princess Princess 4 Comments »After being curious and not really hearing anything about this series, I went ahead and ordered all five volumes in a sale. I did read “Day of Revolution” and hated it, but I sort of liked the plot, and I thought since this series was written a bit later, Tsuda would be a bit better about the messy things in that series, like different personalities for the characters and a direction for the series to go in. Shortly after placing the order, I heard this series was really rotten.
The first volume actually wasn’t that bad, though. It’s slow, and a bit bland, but it hasn’t actually committed any sins as of yet. The premise is a bit strange. The prettiest boys have to dress up as princesses in order to… entertain the rest of the students at the all boys school, and there’s absolutely nothing sexual about it. This is sort of rare, and you can read in the afterward that Tsuda wasn’t sure if she should make it a BL series or not.
The characters do have slightly different personalities, but they’re a bit generic at this point. The main character, a transfer student who winds up being chosen as a princess, seems to be sort of an average guy. His best friend, the kid with long hair, seems to know how to play the princess game and is slightly manipulative, and the third princess is the one who freaks out and protests about the whole business. The only other standout character, the president of the first year students, is the nice boy. It works so far, but I’m hoping for more.
So far, we’ve been introduced to what the Princesses do, how they are compensated for their time, what the process for their costumes is, and we’ve been through a school assembly and some sporting events with them. Next volume looks like it’ll be a vacation volume, where two of the characters are staying behind in the dorms and possibly visiting a third at his house. There may be dark pasts for two of the characters.
Eh. Not rotten so far, but not standout, either.
I watched a little bit of this anime, but lost interest. I have the first two volumes of the manga, but haven’t read them. So I’m relying on you to tell me whether I should bother! :)
It’s… pretty okay so far. It’s inoffensive and middle-of-the-road, but it has its funny moments. I definitely feel pretty good about reading the next three volumes, but I guess there’s still plenty of opportunity for things to go wrong. The weirdness of the whole Princess thing is keeping me interested for now, though.
Where did you find this? I read a manga review for this once and I really liked what was going on from what the manga review said. I haven’t been able to find it online and I usually like to find 1 chapter or volume online and read that. If I’m into it, I usually try to buy it.
I bought all five volumes on sale at the Right Stuf, http://www.rightstuf.com