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screenshot from shoujo manga akagami no shirayuki hime

SNow White with Red Hair

Name: Snow White with Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayuihime)
Manga-ka: Akizuki, Sorata

Volumes: 25 (Ongoing Feb-2023)
Licensed: Shojo Beat (Viz)
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Shirayuki was a young girl born with unique apple-red hair. She meets a famous but foolish Prince Raji, who falls in love with her at first sight and orders her to become his concubine. With nowhere else to go, Shirayuki cuts her hair and escapes to a neighboring country. While traversing through the forests, she meets a young boy, Zen, who helps her after she boldly cures his wounds but then gets poisoned by an apple given to Shirayuki. Meanwhile, Prince Raji sends out henchmen to search for her. What will happen to Shirayuki? What is Zen’s true character? A refreshing fantasy story between an optimistic heroine and a prince who constantly stays on her watch.

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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Heart no Kuni no Alice: Alice in the Country of Hearts

Name: Heart no Kuni no Alice (Alice in the Country of Hearts)
Artist: Hoshino, Soumei
Story: QuinRose

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: Tokyopop
Scanlations: V.06 Ch.35 (Complete)
Scanlator: 3 Different Scanlators
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/Harem/Pyschological/Adventure
Age Group: Teens

Summary: The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with bishounen characters and added romance.

A parody of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormatlike.

In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet darkly cynical. Instead of the traditional story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place call Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight and more…What should Alice do in such a world!?

-From Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Hanatsuki Hime

Name: Hanatsuki Hime
Mangaka: Hibiki, Wataru

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.08 (Complete)
Scanlator: Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/History
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: “There once was a girl with a splendid flower blooming upon her chest.”

When Lys was born, her heart did not beat at all. To save her, her mother made a contract with a devil: Lys can borrow his heart until the day she turns sixteen, but after that, he will eat her body. Together with her companion, Siva, someone whom she met by chance in the desert at night, she travels around as a dancer girl to find the devil who sealed her fate. One day, while they were traveling, they suddenly meet an egoistic prince and a ring spirit…

-From Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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The Snow Queen

*Note: Recently I ordered Volume 8, 9, and 10 of 100% Perfect Girl and OF COURSE volume 10 comes in first. How sad. Decided to get my Wann fix through another series. Here you go. :)

Name: The Snow Queen
Mangaka: Wann

Volumes: 2 (Finished)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlator: RC-Scans (Closed) and Noir
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Tragedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: There once was a man called the most brilliant intellectual. And a woman with everything standing at the death’s door. Their hearts were so completely frozen solid that nothing could melt them. What kind of light was it that could melt their hearts? …Love…? If the answer was love, isn’t it beyond absurdity?

–MangaUpdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Billion Girl

Name: Billion Girl
Mangaka: Sakai, Miwa

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: Not Licensed
Scanlations: V.10 Ch.36 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Magic, X-Vampire Knight, Operation Boredom, and Willful Muse
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Fairytale/Drama/Rich Guy Poor Girl
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kanoko’s is a very vanilla girl who works in her families confectionery shop. When the shop goes 1 billion dollars into debt, Kanoko’s father promises a homeless man one of his daughters to get rid of the debt. With Kanoko’s two older sisters completely unwilling Kanoko offers herself to save her family from debt. Turns out the homeless man was actually a rich aristocrat! It’s a real life Cinderella story.

Graphics Rating: 2/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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