Princess Princess 4
Posted: December 24, 2007 Filed under: Princess Princess Leave a comment »I feel like I need to confer with someone about the volume of Nana I just read. Words fail me when I try to think or write about it though. Unfortunately, I read it right after I read this volume, so what little Princess Princess had going for it was totally overshadowed by Nana’s mastery of the medium.
Sorry, Princess Princess.
This volume was the actual school festival/play, which was thankfully not Alice in Wonderland, but a weird original story that was written to be a kind of sarcastic fairy tale starring the three princesses. Later in the volume we get student council elections, with a new character, the embodiment of perfection, to run against Akira. Ho-hum.
The monotony of this volume was broken up by two side stories, one that starred the main character from Day of Revolution (Mikoto’s girlfriend in this story) and one which just outlined the regular routine of the princesses. The one with Mikoto’s girlfriend was great not only because the four characters that ruined Day of Revolution for me did not appear, but it was an alternate look at the festival goings-on from a strictly Mikoto/Makoto/Megumi point of view. Well, that didn’t make it great, but it at least made it slightly more enjoyable.
Once again, there’s nothing particularly bad that this series does, and it manages to stay entertaining because the comedy is okay, and the characters are okay… but it’s just… not very good either. I do like all the omake chapters that Mikiyo Tsuda does, in this case there’s an introduction to both the side stories (or at least one of them, I can’t remember if the other has an intro or not), an afterward, a comic drawn by both Mikiyo Tsuda and Eiki Eiki about making drama CDs, and a bunch of 4-panel comics at the end. Her 4-panels have mostly just been about losing weight and looking identical to Eiki Eiki, but I still find them really enjoyable, much more so than that particular mundane subject matter is in the hands of other mangaka.
