If you want to know what's going on
here,then go here and read that. If you're too lazy to do that then
stay confused because I'm not going to explain.
Black Rose Alice is a vampire manga
sitting squarely in that stale genre of supernatural romance. I was
not going to pick this up because the only genuinely good thing to
come out of this craze is Diabolik Lovers. Then I read a short review
in a certain magazine that praised this and bashed Diabolik Lovers.
In my incredibly petty mind that sounded like a challenge and I was
all for accepting it. So I picked this up and was going to give it a
fair a chance as I could,. Too bad it's an awful introduction to a
series.
The story concerns a very unattractive
man,Dmitri, becoming a vampire and him accidentally killing his lover
because they need something tragic for him to dwell on for hundreds
of years. Then we fast forward to 2008 and get involved in a tragic
and dull student/teacher romantic relationship that gets to tie into
Dmitri's sure to be convoluted plans.
Dmitri is your brooding anti-hero, that looks conventionally like the
teacher's,Azusa, student lover. No doubt this will make events more
complicated down the road,if I cared to travel that road. We do
learn a bit about the bigger players but nothing suggesting more
depth or personalty outside of what we see. I'll give it credit in
that it actually starts with Dmitri pre-vampire and explains how we
arrived there. However it takes too much time to explain how we got
there that Dmitri loses an air of mystery about him that could have
kept interest in him. We're left wondering nothing about how Dmitiri
become who he is or what makes him tick. We're left with characters
that aren't fun to follow and offer nothing to suggest that this will
change.
The story as mentioned sucks out what
little mystery there is to go on with a dry set-up that just flat out
explains everything. From the author's set of vampire rules to
Azusa's long drawn out motivations for dating a high school boy. Yeah
the whole mess ends on a crazy Faustian bargain that could add
something interesting but since everything is laid out clearly it
leaves no suspense. You know how this is going to play out,so why
read?
Nothing much else to say about this
one,it has nothing that hints something interesting is ever going to
happen nor does anything interesting happen in it. Diabolk Lovers
actually used a vampire plot to showcase the inner workings of
abusive relationships. Black Rose Alice does nothing with what could
be an okay idea. Go ahead and skip this one.
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