Real/Fake Princess 1
Posted: January 6, 2008 Filed under: Real/Fake Princess 1 Comment »Would you believe I’ve never read any manhua? I would, because there’s not very much published in English. There was a DrMaster sale recently, and I bought all five volumes for around $18 or something like that.
So far, it’s just sort of okay. A girl is living a quiet life in the country when her guardian decides that it’s time for her to go back to her brother, who happens to be the Emperor. Since she fled the capital when she was 4, she has little knowledge of her previous life, but she does know she doesn’t want to be separated from her guardian. She just wants to live happily ever after with him.
The Emperor has appointed a seeker, who serves the sole purpose of finding other members of the royal family who were scattered during the last war. Mostly he just sends away fakes who try and claim the titles for money. Of course, the main character of the story is extremely strong-willed and gives the seeker no end of trouble since she doesn’t actually want to be the princess. There are lots of scenes where the main character picks fights with the seeker. These are actually fairly entertaining, and are mostly how the character of the seeker is revealed, since most of the time the arguments are a misunderstanding on the part of the main character.
By the end of the book, we have romantic connections between several characters that seem to be warming up. Nothing terribly dramatic happens though, and it reads like a vaguely lukewarm fairy tale. I did like the art, and there’s a good bit of history in the back of the volume that I thought was quite interesting. At this point though, I don’t really sympathize with any of the characters and I’m not really into the plot. I’ll keep reading, though.
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