Dokuhime

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Synonyms: Doku Hime, La Princesse de poison, Poison Princess

Japanese: 毒姫

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 36

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 12, 2002 to Oct 13, 2012

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Nemuki

Authors: Mihara, Mitsukazu (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.54¹ (scored by 2,378 users)

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Ranked: #2850²

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Popularity: #3378

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Mar 2, 2016

ObscureObsidian

Not Recommended

Vow, this manga sucks. It's supposd to be a josei, but i found a lot of horrible, awful cliches i unfortunetly see often in the 90s shojo titles and hated them. But take a look to what only the manga is.
The story is about traained assasins by a obnoxious queen to kill neighboor countries' king just because...the queen is evil. Just that, she raise little girls to be assasins, put in danger their lives and the kingdoms because she's just a hateful bitch. Don't search realistic motivations to characters, they just doesn't exist in this manga.
The main character, Lycoris, is a extreme doormant, passive heroine. ... Or i should say damsel in distress. She's supposed to be a trained professional assassin, but has a whinny emo teenage girl's personality, every monologue by her is tp complain about how she can love. I love when the female protagonist has such awful priorities. She could worry about her kingdom, the other girls they are training to become assasins like her...Well, a lot of stuff i found more important that nobody can kiss me. In the last chapters, she just let herself being loocked away and thanks the guy who loocked her away.
I think i said enough about our protagonist. Don't worry, there's characters more hateful in this. Like a dethroned prince that he's the worst Lelouch Lamperouge wannabe you'll ever see, the aforementioned bitchy queen...there's some nice characters, but they got few screentime and get killed quickly, while other characters you have to wait until the last three chapters to see them die.
The author must think character development means show flashbacks with every character's backstory, and made all of them look really sad and depressing to make them seem sympathetic to the readers. Well, that's not always works, specially when you put too much effort in the flash-backs, and don't develop the main story, and that's the case here.
Forced drama, cliches, horrible pacing, passive heroine...the story is a huge mess.
You must think, well, something good it should have, the art, for example. Okay, my dear friends, unfortunetly, the art belong to the school of dress porn that are completely useful to the story, with scenes like assassins that fight in a forest dressing as gothic lolitas. Anathomy is painful to watch, and the figures look static, withforced posses. The faces look really plain in some scenes, specially when they're crying, bleeding and smiling, and dear god, what sexy has a guy's face while forcefully puking?Someone can exlain it to me.
I just read this until the end because when i completed, i could just say: Vow, this manga sucks. Avpid it, there are so much better titles to read out there.

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Nov 4, 2018

saoki

Not Recommended

Preliminary (35/36 chp)

I'm not against melodramatic gothic fairytales with impossible premises, but this series is just dumb. Also, it's not horror, if you're wondering. It's a badly plotted political intrigue with dark, kinky overtones and a lot of plot-required dumbness, like:
* A deposed prince kept alive but not imprisoned or exiled, because Plot Needed It.
* A stupid, contrived and really dumb plan involving identity change that convinced me the author has never heard about regents, because I'm sure the characters would have.
* The water gate, which has half a dozen problems that don't really need to be explained to any person that has ever seen a barrage ... and the amount of work involved in keeping it. And let's not talk about irrigation, canals and the engineering problems of sending water out.
* The sincere lack of mothers, queens and consorts for all those men, and the absurd lack of nobility in a giant castle (maybe the nobles didn't support the new king and were mass-murdered, but this would mean their jobs would be taken by raised up commoner aides. And, yes, nobles have jobs, because running a country is hard work.), and let's not mention Where Does The Food Comes From, because that's such a common grievance with fantasy manga that I don't even feel like complaining anymore.

And then there is the extremely powerful trained assassin that sweats poison but never considers spitting on some guards and getting the hell away from everything. She's a doormat, which is expected from the way she was raised, but she's not even an interesting doormat, you know, with a cool pattern. I'm not talking about redeeming qualities. This story happens in an yandere nightmare of a setting, no one has redeeming qualities. I'm talking about doing anything besides existing. She thinks about doing things but stops at the first obstacle (which is usually one of the ikemen princes), does not react even when threatened, humiliated or tortured and calls that never giving up (which should throw away any possible interpretation of her passiveness as depression). In truth, it feels more like she's a gothic lolita doll, which is a shame for someone with such a cool power, but a mortal sin for a main character.

To be fair, though, the story (such as it is) is efficiently told, the narrative is fluid and the art is expressive, though stylized to the point characters seem to be posing for a photo half the time. It's just that nothing seemed thought all the way through, like the author was too invest on making things look cool to actually work the dense, dark, corrupt story she promises.

PS: Why was she wearing a corset to her sickbed?
PS2: I really recommend boiling water from natural sources before drinking, it kills most bacteria and parasites as well as evaporates several contaminants. It's ancient wisdom! (but not on this series)
PS3: The author coded power evil, which is a normal thing in manga, but I wonder if she noticed how she coded women-with-power as evil-without-redemption. This is some troublesome stuff to have inside when you are a woman.

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