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A review by cyanide_latte
Puella Magi Tart Magica, Vol. 2: The Legend of Jeanne d'Arc by Magica Quartet
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Continued from my review of the previous volume, this series gets points for the efforts at historical accuracy to the events of Jeanne's involvement in the hundred-years war, though the clusters and chunks of infodumps can and do wear on you after a while. The eye just tends to skip over them, I find.
I do have some additional appreciation for the inclusion of Gilles de Rais, though I found the way he was handled a little weird to begin with the first time I read these volumes and it's still a little weird even now. He seems vaguely predatory towards Jeanne once she has impressed him, but he's played as such a dramatic fop that this seems to function more as comic relief than it should.
While the enemy magical girls are interesting and I can appreciate Riz and Melissa as allies, it feels like it comes at the cost of Jeanne herself feeling like a strong character in any capacity, which bothers me. We'll see how I feel as I continue with the remaining volumes.
I do have some additional appreciation for the inclusion of Gilles de Rais, though I found the way he was handled a little weird to begin with the first time I read these volumes and it's still a little weird even now. He seems vaguely predatory towards Jeanne once she has impressed him, but he's played as such a dramatic fop that this seems to function more as comic relief than it should.
While the enemy magical girls are interesting and I can appreciate Riz and Melissa as allies, it feels like it comes at the cost of Jeanne herself feeling like a strong character in any capacity, which bothers me. We'll see how I feel as I continue with the remaining volumes.