May. 10th, 2008

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Princess Tess of Costenopolie doesn't really have it easy.  Sure, she can shop wherever and whenever she wants(shopping is very, very important, you know) and at least her fiance (who she didn't get to choose) is good looking, but then there's this pesky prophecy she was born under that's resulted in people trying to kill her since...well, birth.  On the one hand, it's made her great with secret passages and scaling walls, not to mention pretty good with a whip and poisoned darts.  Really, it'd all be great if it weren't for those peskt assassination attempts.

But then her fiance Garrett, comes a little early and demands that the wedding ceremony be moved up, and the king and queen are forced to come clean:  Tess isn't their real daughter, or the baby born under the prophecy.  Instead, she's one of three babies bought off the street to serves as decoys for the assassins while the real princess was carted off to be raised in secrecy in a convent.  The only one of the decoy babies to survive the early assassination attempts, Tess is formally(but ever so quietly) adopted by the king and queen, and brought up with no idea of her true origins.  Tess, understandably, has a few issues with this.  Garrett has even more, and almost as fast as you can blink, he's assassinated the king and queen and sent assassins off to kill the real princess so no one can contest his claim tothe throne once he marries Tess.  But then she has the utter gall to go and save herself from him all on her own, thankyouverymuch, and he realizes he just needs a princess, doesn't matter which, as long as there's someone to claim the one he's marrying is the real deal.

Ok, it sounds kind of confusing, but really, it isn't, and before you know it, Tess is out on the streets, little more than a beggar(culture shock!) determined to save the real princess, not to mention her kingdom, and get revenge, teaming up along the way with Duncan, a scammer she blackmails into giving her his winnings when she catches him cheating at cards, and who's determined to find out just how she did it.  With a plotline like this, there's a fine line between a heroine who's TSTL and keeps lucking out, and a heroine who's so good that it's just ridiculous.  Here, even though it was disguised as games, Tess has been taught to survive and track, and has skills and is smart, but is still naive as to the world beyond being a princess.  She has the arrogance and does foolish things, but gets called on them, and avoids blundering into things when she should know better.  (And yes, there is a huge difference between blundering into trouble when there's just no way you could be prepared for the situation you're in, or when dealing with parts of life you never realized existed, and blundering in when you should know better, but I won't get into that.)

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Princess Tess of Costenopolie doesn't really have it easy.  Sure, she can shop wherever and whenever she wants(shopping is very, very important, you know) and at least her fiance (who she didn't get to choose) is good looking, but then there's this pesky prophecy she was born under that's resulted in people trying to kill her since...well, birth.  On the one hand, it's made her great with secret passages and scaling walls, not to mention pretty good with a whip and poisoned darts.  Really, it'd all be great if it weren't for those peskt assassination attempts.

But then her fiance Garrett, comes a little early and demands that the wedding ceremony be moved up, and the king and queen are forced to come clean:  Tess isn't their real daughter, or the baby born under the prophecy.  Instead, she's one of three babies bought off the street to serves as decoys for the assassins while the real princess was carted off to be raised in secrecy in a convent.  The only one of the decoy babies to survive the early assassination attempts, Tess is formally(but ever so quietly) adopted by the king and queen, and brought up with no idea of her true origins.  Tess, understandably, has a few issues with this.  Garrett has even more, and almost as fast as you can blink, he's assassinated the king and queen and sent assassins off to kill the real princess so no one can contest his claim tothe throne once he marries Tess.  But then she has the utter gall to go and save herself from him all on her own, thankyouverymuch, and he realizes he just needs a princess, doesn't matter which, as long as there's someone to claim the one he's marrying is the real deal.

Ok, it sounds kind of confusing, but really, it isn't, and before you know it, Tess is out on the streets, little more than a beggar(culture shock!) determined to save the real princess, not to mention her kingdom, and get revenge, teaming up along the way with Duncan, a scammer she blackmails into giving her his winnings when she catches him cheating at cards, and who's determined to find out just how she did it.  With a plotline like this, there's a fine line between a heroine who's TSTL and keeps lucking out, and a heroine who's so good that it's just ridiculous.  Here, even though it was disguised as games, Tess has been taught to survive and track, and has skills and is smart, but is still naive as to the world beyond being a princess.  She has the arrogance and does foolish things, but gets called on them, and avoids blundering into things when she should know better.  (And yes, there is a huge difference between blundering into trouble when there's just no way you could be prepared for the situation you're in, or when dealing with parts of life you never realized existed, and blundering in when you should know better, but I won't get into that.)

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Kamen Tantei is a four volume mystery series by Matsuri Akino, the mangaka of Petshop of Horrors.  In it, Haruka and Masato are high school students who write mysteries under the name of Taro Suzuki, but they don't want that to get out.  They're also the sole members of the school's mystery club.  When a classmate Masato has a crush on commits suicide, Haruka suspects foul play and decides to investigate.  During the investigation, a flamboyant masked detective appears and helps them to solve the case, much to Haruka's consternation.

Like PoH, the stories in KT are set up so that each chapter is an individual story, with the ongoing story lurking a bit in the background.  Each mystery is set up to follow certain mystery plot conventions-the locked room, the hotel where the power is out, the mystery writers' convention, etc.-and has many genre scenes and nods to the conventions, such as a scene where Haruka dramatically points and says "the killer..is you!" and a scene in one story where Haruka and Masato are at a dinner where people want to meet "Taro Suzuki," but they can't announce their identity, and the mystery detective arrives and announces that he is Taro Suzuki, and Haruka, though angry, can't do anything about it without revealing the secret.  All of this and more is done with pure, fangirlish glee, and very tongue-in-cheek.  In addition, (sincethis is a Matsuri Akino manga) ghosts have played into every mystery, and "Taro Suzuki" himself seems to be a ghost.  While Masato can see ghosts, Haruka doesn't believe in them.

So far, Haruka and Masato don't seem to be being set up to be love interests.  They're childhood friends who act more like brother and sister than anything else, though with their insistence that they aren't a couple when asked and Haruka's suspicion to girls liking Masato, that could change.  Though they both claim to be mystery fans, I'm not sure Masato actually is.  While Haruka is a complete mystery fangirl(she literally bounces and gets starry-eyed when there's a mystery afoot, or when she gets to meet a writer) Masato, who has a much less dominant personality, mostly seems to be doing whatever she wants out of habit.  "Taro Suzuki" mostly remains a mysterious figure, and has some similarities to Count D.  I suspect he'll eventually be revealed to have some sort of past connection to Haruka or Masato(as he seems more interested in Haruka than Masato at this point, I'm leaning towards it being her.)

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Kamen Tantei is a four volume mystery series by Matsuri Akino, the mangaka of Petshop of Horrors.  In it, Haruka and Masato are high school students who write mysteries under the name of Taro Suzuki, but they don't want that to get out.  They're also the sole members of the school's mystery club.  When a classmate Masato has a crush on commits suicide, Haruka suspects foul play and decides to investigate.  During the investigation, a flamboyant masked detective appears and helps them to solve the case, much to Haruka's consternation.

Like PoH, the stories in KT are set up so that each chapter is an individual story, with the ongoing story lurking a bit in the background.  Each mystery is set up to follow certain mystery plot conventions-the locked room, the hotel where the power is out, the mystery writers' convention, etc.-and has many genre scenes and nods to the conventions, such as a scene where Haruka dramatically points and says "the killer..is you!" and a scene in one story where Haruka and Masato are at a dinner where people want to meet "Taro Suzuki," but they can't announce their identity, and the mystery detective arrives and announces that he is Taro Suzuki, and Haruka, though angry, can't do anything about it without revealing the secret.  All of this and more is done with pure, fangirlish glee, and very tongue-in-cheek.  In addition, (sincethis is a Matsuri Akino manga) ghosts have played into every mystery, and "Taro Suzuki" himself seems to be a ghost.  While Masato can see ghosts, Haruka doesn't believe in them.

So far, Haruka and Masato don't seem to be being set up to be love interests.  They're childhood friends who act more like brother and sister than anything else, though with their insistence that they aren't a couple when asked and Haruka's suspicion to girls liking Masato, that could change.  Though they both claim to be mystery fans, I'm not sure Masato actually is.  While Haruka is a complete mystery fangirl(she literally bounces and gets starry-eyed when there's a mystery afoot, or when she gets to meet a writer) Masato, who has a much less dominant personality, mostly seems to be doing whatever she wants out of habit.  "Taro Suzuki" mostly remains a mysterious figure, and has some similarities to Count D.  I suspect he'll eventually be revealed to have some sort of past connection to Haruka or Masato(as he seems more interested in Haruka than Masato at this point, I'm leaning towards it being her.)

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Your Score: Measure for Measure


You scored 24% = Tragic, 44% = Comic, 21% = Romantic, 66% = Historic



You are Measure for Measure. Originally classified as a comedy but now regarded amongst the "Problem Plays", Measure for Measure is a story of truth, justice, mercy, forgiveness, and humility. What your score tells us about you is that you are most likely an outgoing person, who believes in doing what is right. While you may sometimes abuse your power in certain situations, for the most part you are kind-hearted and sincere. Not that abusing your power is necessarily a bad thing. Remember, as the play tells us "some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." We just want to make sure you don't get too greedy for power and end up like that Macbeth guy!

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