Nemurenu Ou ni Sasagu Yogatari
A story for sleepless king at night

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Nemurenu Ou ni Sasagu Yogatari is a manga retelling of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, so there is a cursed king who cannot sleep and a young woman who must tell him stories to get him to sleep.
It draws on fairy tale type elements, the supernatural and curses, were the two are bound together by a strange fate. It is set in the palace of a desert king who is known to be cruel. Reincarnation is a theme of this manga. It is also about redemption and breaking a curse to find ... love in spite of it. This is a short story, it's only one volume, and yet it has stories within the story as she tells him tales.

The first three chapters are quite well woven, it goes back and forth between the main story and the tales she tells him from her dreams, but the end chapter, the mangaka tried to pull it together too fast. All in all it is enjoyable yet I think it could have used a couple more chapters for another tale and to expand the ending which felt rushed to me and that is the main fault of it. Still, I enjoyed this supernatural shoujo. I liked the art as well, it's not spectacular but quite nicely done and goes with the theme. There is not much to spoiler here if you know the story of the Thousand and One Nights with you, it's a very compacted retelling of that. This manga is now complete at one volume. Overall I would give it a 7.5 or 8.

reviewed by inzaratha for reviews for the unreviewed.

I'm searching randomly for manga to read when I stumbled upon this one.

Story: 9
Basically, there are stories within a story. In every chapters(except for chapter 4), there are different tales told by the heroine. They differ from each other and that's what makes each story unique in a sense. From the looks of it this manga is inspired by Arabian Nights. The heroine is telling stories based on her dreams to free his father from the King. The story is predictable. Expect the fast pace of the main story.

Art: 10
I like the art of the manga because it is somewhat clean and easy ... to understand. You can easily distinguish which is which. The art is beautifully drawn.

Character: 8
There are not much character development from the main characters.

The heroine is a girl who constantly dreams about different stories with a person branded with a butterfly mark on a part of their body. She cares for her father, thus the reason for meeting the King to lift his father's punishment. As the story gone by, she gradually shows care for the King due to some reasons.

The king is a somewhat unjustifiable at first because of his attitude, I mean because they couldn't make him sleep he kills them for that. But he gradually has a change of heart as the story progresses.

Enjoyment: 8
Because this manga is short, I enjoy it because it was a quick read and the story for every chapter is good. I recommend it for people who love short shoujo genre manga that does not go all mushy mushy and stuff.

Overall: 8
Hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed reading it.

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