Kiss of the Rose Princess, Vol. 1

I read this in my quest to find a couple new manga series to read. This ended up being an okay start to this manga series but was a bit too fluffy for me.

Anise has a mysterious rose choker she is never supposed to remove. Unfortunately, one day at school it’s stolen by a strange bat-like creature who her gives her four cards. Each of the cards has a knight on it and when she kisses the cards that knight is summoned to do her bidding. Sadly (or maybe not), the knights end up being the hottest boys from her school.

The illustration in this one was very good. Shouoto does an amazing job with detail and with drawing beautiful male characters.

The background behind the knights and the rose princess is somewhat intriguing and I enjoyed the show more personalities of the knights Unfortunately I found Anise really, really annoying. She is really immature and drove me nuts. The story was pretty immature in general and I have no idea where it’s going.

Overall this wasn’t really for me. I thought the illustration and concept behind the story were good. However, the characters were a bit immature for me and the story was a bit too light, silly, and fluffy...I have no idea where it’s going. I’d recommend to those who enjoy high school boy drama with a magical twist to it. This is a well done manga, just not my thing. show less

Contains Chapters 01 - 05: This series looks really promising so far and has a lot of great characters that I look forward to getting to know better. I especially enjoyed reading about Kaede & Anise and hope to see a lot more between them in the future. I can't wait to see what happens next!

This was absolutely fabulous. I wanted more as soon as I had finished this.

Poor story.