Dokuhime

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Story
Great idea for a josei. The heroine's body is saturated with poison, preventing her from ever being with anyone she loves. Her mission is to kill the king of an enemy country, but he seems to be a decent ruler and his handsome sons further complicate the plot. It has horror elements, including her best friend being burned alive and the suffering she went through eating poison as a child.

Art
Beautiful art. The costumes are elaborate and the character designs are all distinctive. For once it's easy to tell all the characters apart.

Character
The heroine is compassionate and conflicted. She was ... the "crybaby" back home but is resolved to fulfill her mission and survive. Not enough of the manga is out yet to comment on the other characters.

Enjoyment
Dark, but very enjoyable. Great for anyone who wants a slightly more mature story.

Overall
This is a really great idea for a manga. I'm excited to see where the author takes it.

A girl who could never be free, a boy who was crazy, a boy who was perfect, and a protector.
The first chapter was confusing but it get's better around the third. It was sad, sweet, romantic, dark and just radiated hope.
Through the whole story you find yourself debating who your routing for. An incredible story of love and pain.

King Glandol had three children,
The useless child
The protecting child
The perfect child
Yet it is said that one among them will bring the kingdom to absolute destruction.

Lycoris is a princess from a kingdom with an evil queen who used to make what is pretty much called a poison princess (dokuhime) which are later sent to other kingdoms to destroy them.
Lycoris was sent to the kingdom of Glandol where the story takes place.

This romantic yet tragic story is really exciting to read, the victorian age never failed to make a good story, once you finish a chapter you can't stop reading. I like the characters a ... lot specially the way they think. Something that i really like about this manga and all Mihara Mitsukazu sensei's works is her fancy drawing style specially for females, she always changes their clothes and hair style and that's another reason you won't get bored reading the manga.
I really like the mangaka's works and Dokuhime is pretty much her masterpiece, and everything about this manga is awesome it really deserves a 10/10.

Dokuhime is a story, staged at a fantasy setting, and it's starring classical type of characters from setting like that, mostly focusing at the nobility. As the name of it suggest, we do follow through the story of one particular girl, which is a poison princess and we come to understand the gravity of this title in this world.

The story at the beginning is being added with lush strokes, and in wide perspective, although it does straighten up and focuses a small cast of characters later on. While I do appreciate the effort to weave and create complex ... and layered political story, I don't think the author managed to complete that, which do feel particulary misleading. The poisonn princess's interaction with the princes is the major focus of this work, where we can see quite misleading first impressions of them and interesting trope subversions, which I do considered as engaging, but I don't really think the relations were well established or developed. The actions of the main cast and their sumbolical and psycholgical implications also presents us with more layers of understanding their motives.
As a minus to the manga, I can say that the ending does feel quite rushed, so we can't say that most of the cast had conclusion to their stories, which is unplesant contrast of the grand storyline.

The art from this manga is very refined and elegant, you can tell alot of attention has been given into drawing and dressing the main cast, with their coats, furs, heraldic symbols and wears in general. As a general aesthetic they do look quite tall and slender, more into the female oriented style, which doesn't hinders the story.

As for the characters, I think conceptually they're great, and their setup is good. There is also one hereditary mystery concerning the princes, which does add flavor to the whole cast. What I do think is an issue though is the rush or lack of time spent honing the character's feelings towards one another, it's implied what they feel, but the romantic aspect of the story is quite undeveloped, which is a shame.

Overall I do think this manga is certainly worth it's time, it does presents us with an interesting mix of political and personal drama, romance, as well as mystery. It feels quite fast-paced, something which may feel good for some, and trouble for others, but it manages to keep the intrigue going until it's end. So if you're looking for non-orthodox story with twists, as well as interesting development for the cast along it's way, I do advise to give this manga a try, even though you might not be initially interested in the romance or Josei genre as a whole.