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meganbmooreRoxanne is the nerdy, shy class cleanliness rep who has a crush on the apparently personality-free class bad boy, Logan. When she’s looking at wedding dresses and daydreaming, some bullies from her class harass her, they cause the jar of nail polish remover she just bought to break. The liquid splashes a scroll that’s sealing a minor deity, Baphalon, inside, and breaks the seal. In return for freeing him, Baphalon offers to help her win Logan’s love. He’ll set up a series of magical tests-during which she’s transformed into a beautiful magical girl- and for each test she wins, Logan will like her more, but if she loses, he’ll hate her. If she does well enough on the tests, he’ll love her absolutely and rush into her arms.
The first volume is boring and stereotypical, with only the creepy free will robbing aspect of Roxanne’s curse to make it stand out. The second volume moves most of the action to the heavens, which has potential for more interesting stuff, but it’s never followed up on. What is followed up on, sadly, is the manipulation of feelings and lack of free will in the first volume. By the end, none of the three leads seem to have any say in their fate or feelings or the outcome.
I seem to be in the same position with manhua that I was with manhwa a few years ago, which is that I want to like it, especially given how much of it-both shounen and shoujo (I don’t know the proper term)-is wuxia. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much of it coming out in English, that I can find at least, and most of what I have found isn’t that impressive.
The first volume is boring and stereotypical, with only the creepy free will robbing aspect of Roxanne’s curse to make it stand out. The second volume moves most of the action to the heavens, which has potential for more interesting stuff, but it’s never followed up on. What is followed up on, sadly, is the manipulation of feelings and lack of free will in the first volume. By the end, none of the three leads seem to have any say in their fate or feelings or the outcome.
I seem to be in the same position with manhua that I was with manhwa a few years ago, which is that I want to like it, especially given how much of it-both shounen and shoujo (I don’t know the proper term)-is wuxia. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much of it coming out in English, that I can find at least, and most of what I have found isn’t that impressive.