Le Chevalier d’Eon 3
Posted: January 9, 2008 Filed under: Le Chevalier d'Eon Leave a comment »The plot really picked up in this volume, yay! I like this series, and it is extremely well illustrated, but I was going to have to start disliking it if it kept being a series of monster battles chapter after chapter.
Madame de Pompadour is introduced in this volume. I just read about her in the book Sex With Kings, so it was a little weird seeing her pop up in a manga. She’s mentioned a few times, but she’s so famous I thought maybe she’d stay behind the scenes. But that was not the case. She fits well into the story.
We get some more alchemy vagueness about… circles and ranks of poets, but most of the plot momentum comes from d’Eon’s sudden resolve to do what was right by both he and Lia even if it meant betraying his country, the fact that Madame de Pompadour doesn’t know how her daughter is connected to the poets and the revelation that she wouldn’t hesitate to kill her if it was best for France, and something else involving Madame de Pompadour at the end of the volume.
Actually, there’s a distinct lack of monsters in this volume save for the very beginning and the very end. There’s still lots of vague and confusing stuff as well as a lot of symbolic crap that I’m having trouble connecting the dots between. But that’s okay, because most of what’s going on is pretty clear, and I’m glad there’s a lot more going on now than the lone fights between Lia and the poets.
