Ranked #13214

Fushigi no Kuni no Shounen Arisu (Manga)

The easiest way to describe Boy Alice in Wonderland is as an episodic mind frag. Continuity between chapters is sparse at best, and I doubt giving it more time to gestate in my mind will help. Let's just dive right in, shall we?

Story: There is something of a unifying story, from time to time, within this manga. Whether its just that the mangaka intended chapters to be jumps forward or backwards in time from one to the next, I don't know. What I do know, though, is that reading this in chapter order makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Our main character starts out fairly clearly male, becomes more effeminate, gets turned completely into a woman and goes back to being effeminate at varying points, all while insisting that they are, and always have been, male. They are also regularly set upon by various male characters seeking to make them their bride. Frankly, I just don't think much of this whole thing. I don't mind time skipping storylines (Reservoir Dogs is a fine example of such a sotryline done properly), but this is taking things to an absurd level (if that is, in fact, what's really going on). I'd love to give this manga more time to hammer out the details, but I just don't feel that I can right now. 3/10

Art: Where this manga pulls itself completely out of the fire. The art is quite nice. Not superb, by any means, but still very nice. 8/10

Character: Characterization is tied incredibly deeply with the storyline of this whole thing, and thus doesn't quite match up to expectations. It, however, receives a higher score than storyline for the simple reason that the characters maintain far greater continuity than the storyline itself (even if they don't remember each other, their personalities and motivations don't do any great flips or flops, generally). 5/10

Enjoyment: There is great documentation of people deriving a perverse pleasure from watching train wrecks, car crashes and the resulting rescue operations. Frankly, I think those would be more enjoyable than continuing to read this. It isn't absolutely horrible, but I can't see myself continuing to read this for any reason than to see what other bizarre leaps the mangaka has in store for their characters, and only then when no train wrecks or car crashes are available to satiate my stranger moods. 4/10

Overall: 5/10 I'm fairly sure this manga will appeal to some, but it just doesn't to me. read more

Now, I know that when I was looking through Manga fox and found Boy Alice in Wonderland, I knew I would expect a cheap smut walk through. But I was in the mood for things like that so I decided to hop in and enjoy. Until I realise I had just hopped onto the Manga version of the Titanic!
The First Chapter seemed pretty good, and like the titantic I thought it would be nigh unsinkable. The second chapter proved the same until I got to the third. Where we strike the Iceberg.
Suddenly the Character Boy Alice is kidnapped by a Erotic wolf who keeps having mood swings and telling the character that the Prince is dead and suddenly the Prince comes back and makes the Boy Alice, who was in the last chapter hating him, suddenly fall in love and be peachy about it till the wolf reveals himself to be the prince and talks about some ritual!(pant pant)
And yet I continued reading, intrigued on how they can dig out of this. But then the 4 chapter flips out of it and goes to boy alice Marrying the prince as if nothing in the past 3 chapters happened. Then it switched to a mermaid setting, then to the boy alice dressing up as Nurse and giving the Prince a blowjob or something, and Alice finally turning into a slave, getting rescued by the prince, and through all this each chapter they begin with no recollection of ether of them whats so over!!!!!
The thought that this mess was released professionaly amazes me. The Artwork was the only excuse for me to keep reading on as I desperatly try to get my mind off the Tits the boy alice is showing like a flag at half mast.
Overall, the thing could have been quiant but it suddenly became muddled by WTF moments, no etory connection at all, and Characters who make you want to eat their brains out for saying such stupid things. read more