Gakuen Prince 2
Posted: July 30, 2009 Filed under: Gakuen Prince Leave a comment »Jun Yuzuki – Del Rey – 2009 – 6+ volumes
I reviewed this title for this week’s Manga Minis column at Manga Recon, so check out the review over there.
This runs contrary to Papillon as being the most insane, trashy shoujo drama you can possibly think of, and I absolutely love every page of it. Well, maybe love is a strong word. My conscience screams at me as I read it in a way that it does only when I read, say, the Merry Gentry novels. I know it’s terrible, and I know what’s going on is horrible, and I know that my brain is dying a little with every page. But that doesn’t stop me from loving it dearly.
I also love the added touch of making all (?) the chapter titles relate to novels. “The Sorrows of Young Rise Okitsu” and “Azusa Mizutani, or the Unbearable Lightness of Mind,” and “Noriko Fuwa – Perhaps a Vice Amply Rewarded” comically invoke de Sade, Kundera, and Goethe. According to the notes, the chapters themselves have nothing to do with the novels, but the fact the references are there for no reason is pretty cool. The fourth chapter in this book stumped me, though – “I’ll Leave You Without Hesitation.”
