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A review by inthebelljar
Goodbye Battle Princess Peony by Mira Ong Chua
5.0
Mira Ong Chua's comics bring me such pure joy.
Chua's work often takes the familiar tropes and stories of my childhood spent reading shoujo manga - and makes it sapphic.
There was always so much teasing and alluding to w/w relationships in the manga and anime of my childhood, and there's just something so satisfying and fun about getting to see similar stories that had teased me with subtext but with that love made textual.
I've always been a huge fan of magical girl stories, with their cutesy, frilly aesthetics and constant refrain of hope and love in the face of darkness, and I was a big fan of Goodbye, Battle Princess Peony. It was cute, it was funny, and it was so sweet - though it had some darker moments, which I enjoyed as well. I felt giddy while reading it and I just had such a good time that I couldn't not give it 5 stars.
Thank you to Mira Ong Chua for giving me the queer stories that were absent from my childhood.
Chua's work often takes the familiar tropes and stories of my childhood spent reading shoujo manga - and makes it sapphic.
There was always so much teasing and alluding to w/w relationships in the manga and anime of my childhood, and there's just something so satisfying and fun about getting to see similar stories that had teased me with subtext but with that love made textual.
I've always been a huge fan of magical girl stories, with their cutesy, frilly aesthetics and constant refrain of hope and love in the face of darkness, and I was a big fan of Goodbye, Battle Princess Peony. It was cute, it was funny, and it was so sweet - though it had some darker moments, which I enjoyed as well. I felt giddy while reading it and I just had such a good time that I couldn't not give it 5 stars.
Thank you to Mira Ong Chua for giving me the queer stories that were absent from my childhood.