Review: Princesa Kilala - Rika Tanaka & Nao Kodaka

Today I finished this cute series after 5 volumes. Before I start, I have to say that it is a childish series, so, you can’t condemn it for being predictable or obvious :)

Well, as I commented on my Instagram, Kilala is a regular girl whose parents travel a lot. She feels very lonely and finds comfort in the Disney Princesses’ world. Her friends think that she’s a little weird, but Kilala doesn’t care, as all she wants is to have a good time in everything she does. One fine day, she finds a passed out boy in the street named Rei, a lost prince (which, in Brazilian Portuguese, is very funny, as this boy will became a king someday and the world “king” equals “rei” in this language, haha!).

Anyway, Rei needs to save his kingdom, Paradiso, from a rebellion and Kilala starts to help, on her own clumsy way. They end up visiting 6 princesses worlds: Snow White’s, Cinderella’s, Ariel’s, Belle’s, Aurora’s and Jasmine’s. Each kingdom gives Kilala a different stone for the crowd of Rei’s kingdom, but an awful betrayal gets into their way and Kilala, in the end, wasn’t just some random girl.

Kilala e Rei :)

I thought it was pretty creative for a kid’s manga. Of course we have some basic shoujo elements like the couple that always fight, the oh-so-prettier-than-you-girl to make an amorous triangle with Kilala and Rei, clichés and all, but it’s cute enough as a pass time and Nao wins extra points. Kilala and Rei are beautiful characters and the Disney characters are perfect! Even finding the end a little tiring, I liked it and, overall, I would give 3.5 stars to the whole series.

That’s it! Thanks for reading :D Do you like Disney inspired mangas?

Manga review: Desire, from Maki Kazumi and Yukine Homani

Yesterday I had a hard time falling asleep, so I picked up this one volume manga at my Manga Rock app, Desire, from Maki Kazumi and Yukine Homani.

I only wanted to pass the time and, thank God, the plot wasn't overly complicated or anything and the main character, Toru, was a cutie :)

Baically, is the story of two friends: Toru and Ryoji. Toru loves Ryoji secretly and Ryoji has a sexual atraction towards Toru, but none of them knows about each other's feelings until Ryoji admits to Toru that he gets aroused near him.

Honestly, I didn't like Ryoji. I don't usually like forceful males in any sort of way and he was a total ass. Toru, in the other hand, was very sweet, he deserved better... In my Goodreads' rating, I gave it  4 stars out of 5. It was nice, but I would have liked it waaay more if Toru had ended up with another character, whose name will be kept in secret, as I don't want to give spoilers away ;)

I recommend it if you, like me, like a good yaoi manga and want to spend the time without much thought <3

That's it! Thanks for reading and sorry for the delay on the post. I had promised it it for yesterday at my Instagram profile 😢 Do you like yaoi mangas too??

Boy Princess: a storm in my life

From time to time, I experience some odd situations in terms of reading. I buy books without reading the description, I get mysteriously drawn to a book I’ve never heard of or liked the cover, I foresee the most unthinkable scenes in the plots… Anyway, sometimes I’m pretty messed up. With Boy Princess, from Seyoung Kim, was no different.

However, before I explain what the hell happened with me and this saga, let me post here the Goodreads’ description of it:

When Princess Elena runs away two days before her wedding to the neighboring kingdom's prince, her brother - Prince Nicole - is dressed up like a girl and sent to the ceremony in her place, leading to mischief and adventure between the two princes.

Resuming it better: Prince Nicole is sent to another kingdom to be another Prince’s bride in the place of his sister and has to dress up like a woman, but Jed, the other Prince, doesn’t like women, so he’s very happy to find that his beautiful wife is a lovely boy.

If you, like me, thought it would be a funny light yaoi manhwa (Korean manga), you are very and deeply wrong. Boy Princess has a deep plot, several characters that look all the same (which was a nightmare for me, because I suck with names, so I remember characters by their faces), some weird ends during the story and an unbelievable happy ending after so much drama. 

Moreover, I didn’t feel a connection with the main characters and there was little comedy about it all, to my frustrations. I prefer less drama and, even hating many parts of what I was reading, I didn’t stop until I had read all nine volumes of it. NINE. In less than 4 hours.

That’s the bizarre part. I couldn’t put it down. I found the title at Manga Rock’s app and didn’t put my iPad down until I saw the end of Boy Princess. It was like a big tide washing over me, if I was going to die if I didn’t finish it. Strong black magic, really.

Anyway, I’m not a fan of manhwa generally speaking and I have a lot of issues with this series, but I strongly recommend it if you like a good yaoi drama in an alternative universe :)

And that was the Boy Princess phenomenon that crossed my way this year, thanks for reading it! Have you already gone through something really bizarre concerning books? :D