Comments on: Key Princess Story: Eternal Alice Rondo Vol. 1 – Manga Review

By: Flor

Flor — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:10:33 +0000

WTF!?!!!!! what a perverted manga damn i’m not reading this manga now, now that i know what it is really about.

By: wrex

wrex — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:55:51 +0000

Really? See if this makes sense: So far in the story, Alice-Users have been fighting each other and the victors have been taking their stories to collect for some purpose. However, the defeated girls don’t die. Now, along comes a girl who kills Alice-users and burns down their place, saying she’ll make them beautiful. Art runs into this girl who calls him “Andersen” and wants to show him something (he thinks she wants to show thanks for the food and drink), but she begins to burn books at the library and tries to kill the librarian. Then Arisu Arisugawa shows up to fight her but is defeated. She slaps Art away and moves to finish off Arisu, but a trio of Alice-users show up to say the girl (Akatsuki Akane) will be arrested.

Basically, Akane is not an Alice-user but a (Hans Christian) Andersen-User. She hates Lewis Carroll’s works and kills Alice-Users and burns Carroll’s books.

I only have the Japanese editions of the manga, but it seemed pretty clear to me… but then again, I have the benefit of having watched the anime series and had read up on Lewis Carroll’s life.

By: Hung

Hung — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:01:54 +0000

The last chapter just seemed sorta rushed and the drawing was really confusing. I just had no idea what was going on.

By: wrex

wrex — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:57:16 +0000

This is why I like this anime and manga… it seems innocent and cute on the outside, but there is an element of dark human desires and evils. The taking of the stories seem like rape to me also, and it probes into forbidden sexual desires. It made me look into the life of Lewis Carrol himself and discovered that he was a closet pedo. I think it’s great that you feel disturbed.. because it shows you haven’t fallen into the pits of depravity. ^_~

What didn’t you understand about the last chapter? That story is not ended and continues in the next volume.

Anyway, I’m surprised that the English translated version has such minimal editing, which I think is great.