A Prince Needs A Princess

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Hi guys x
Sorry I haven't done stuff in a little while
I thought I'd have time to do another big series 
But I guess I'll wait until we get back to Toronto.
For now I'll just do a bunch of smaller series for the next couple days.
Today I bring you..
A Prince Needs A Princess~ (Don't it sound cheesy?)


A Prince Needs A Princess


Story: McMahon Barbara
Art: Kishida Reiko
Publisher: Ohzora Shuppan
Rating: 13+
Synopsis: (mangafox.com) Clarissa is on a mission. The Kingdom of Marik needs a prince, and it's Clarissa's job to see that Jack Brown takes on his rightful position--even if he doesn't want to. Is it just Marik and the king that need Jack, or will Clarissa get her prince, too?


Art Review: 3/5


I don't hate or like the style. It's detailed and somewhat pretty but it's one of those weird 80's-90's mangas where there is only small distinction between the two genders, which is in the hair and the eyes.


Story Review: I picked this manga somewhat on a roulette system (me just closing my eyes and scrolling the page up and down variably for a few seconds) and this came up. Being a Harlequin Pink manga, this is probably going to be a very cheesy manga. And stereotypical one too. Like I haven't seen the "girl makes the man a king/prince and then they get married" scenario. Clarissa, for whatever reason, reminds me of Glenn Close (no, I didn't pick this picture just because Clarissa actually looks like she shoves carrots in her face, I just thought it was funny.) Clarissa goes up to our male lead, Jack Brown. That's almost the most used white name ever (the most common one is John Smith.) She says that the king (his grandfather) from the nation of Marik (when you think about it that could be the best or worst nation ever) and he screams I DO NOT HAVE A GRANDFATHER. Literally, that's impossible, sir. And he continues to ignore her pleas and tell her that he is American and he therefore doesn't care. And you shouldn't be so surprised that he would give up his chance to be king. A lot of kingdoms just turn out to be just as pointless as this one. And I can tell with him changing her wardrobe just to talk to him, this is going to be one of those 'good girls gone bad' stories. Which isn't all bad, character development is NICE once in a while. I can tell with all these people in Jack's family killing themselves in accidents, it's just foreshadowing for him doing that himself. I'm just saying. I have manga clairvoyance. And if I'm wrong, you may have a cookie. I really wish that Jack would stop changing wardrobe every 3 pages. I'm having a hard time recognising him half the time. Wait a minute, Jack is 30 years old? I thought he was 18. Now there really is no excuse for him to be acting like a whiny bitch to everyone. Holy shit, the king looks like Gandalf. And when Gandalf (I'll just name him that for the rest of the series) says," I thought an ordinary carpenter would jump at the fact of being king" I instantly thought of Mario overthrowing the Mushroom Kingdom. He tries to intimidate Gandalf by proposing that he does some carpentry all creeper like. Firstly, does anyone else's mind go to a bunch of cheesy porn lines as he says that? Secondly, because carpentry is very irritating. Have you SEEN carpenter's crack? What has been seen, cannot be unseen. I do find it funny that throughout the beginning of this manga, Clarissa calls him Prince Jean Antoine and 'your highness' and he doesn't say anything. Either this guy is conceited or just isn't listening to her. And of course the predictable plot device to get Clarissa and Jack together, the "If-I-win-I-get-a-kiss-from-you" device. Jack wins, and so starts the process of good girls gone bad. Goodbye dresses, hello leather. Hopefully not like this, though. I'm starting to like this guy, Jack. He doesn't want fancy titles, or balls (has just realised what she just wrote. Hehe. Fancy balls.) All he wants is his quaint little job IN AMERICA. He'd even argue to have fast food at the ball he's attending. A true American -salutes- Although this press has the annoying tendency like the American press to give out top headlines that are absolutely pointless like the one made about Jack's argument with the royal chef about fast food. Jack goes to pick up a friend to build a ski resort in Marik. His name is Tom Tucker. I mean Turner, my bad. Clarissa seems to be fixated on selling those anville soaps. And every time she says it I think of one of those anvil moments from Looney Toons. I really don't get this chick, though. She does in fact like him and she is supposed to be moving on but she refuses to and keeps reminding herself to keep her distance from Jack, and when she finds out that Jack is in fact not a construction worker but a CEO of a construction company, she appears to be devastated. I really don't get why that's all bad, really. Apparently it's for revenge. Clarissa goes to Gandalf and tries to get him to reach out to Jack and praises him. Gandalf looks at her and says," You love him, don't you?" That's just code for "get off of his dick, woman." And the big happy ending. In 2 or 3 pages with no dialogue whatsoever from her she decides that Jack goes from "someone she never should have fallen in love with" to "the only person I'll ever need." Jack decides to accept the throne of Marik as well. I'm all for happy endings but I'm thinking that ended a little too conveniently. We see a montage of their marriage and future children. Although it made me laugh a little when one of the kids had black hair and the rest of them were supposedly blond. I think I speak for everyone when I say,"OWNED." Maybe she IS a golddigger (no seriously, they throw this word around like 20 times Must be a thing of the 90's.) DOUBLE PWNED. There's also a preview story for people who actually enjoy these sorts of things, called No Competition. With the opening of the twins who look nothing like each other, they call one pretty and the other ugly. I guess this will be a manga rendition of 'The Ugly Duckling'. I actually thought that duckling was cute throughout the whole story, and it is the same here. I actually think this girl is cute. Although I'll know where this is going, a guy will intervene, her and her sister compete, and she becomes even cuter and still wins. The whole manga's not in there, and I'm tired of these cheesy mangas, so I'm not even going to bother. I feel somewhat stupified after reading this manga, it's literally a made for TV soap opera in manga form. Cheesiness to the point you could have liquidated cheese coming out of your ears.


6/10