Comments on: Backstage Prince Book 1

By: kirimi

kirimi — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:46:23 +0000

how many chapters
r dere in da first book??

By: josey slaugh

josey slaugh — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:31:20 +0000

i love BACKSTAGE PRINCE!!!!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:48:41 +0000

According to the Viz website, Book 2 is due out June 5.

By: Matt Brady

Matt Brady — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:20:48 +0000

I read this when it was serialized in Shojo Beat magazine. Is there more than one volume? It ended after 5 or 6 chapters, with what seemed to be a conclusion to the series. It was odd, because it seemed like it could have continued for a while, but the story just ended. I thought it was okay, but nothing great.

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Monday morning reviews and news — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:28:59 +0000

[...] At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson reviews vol. 1 of Backstage Prince. Journalista’s Dirk Deppey says vol. 1 of Parasyte is one of those love-it-or-hate-it books; [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:47:23 +0000

Lyle, I noticed a bit of that (see comment about lots of internal monologue), but not so much that it became actively annoying. It’s in keeping with the genre, in my opinion; lots of thinking over “where are we and where are we going?”

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Mon, 14 May 2007 09:43:40 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson reviews the first volume of Kanoko Sakurakoji’s Backstage Prince. [...]

By: Lyle Masaki

Lyle Masaki — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:17:05 +0000

I’m curious how this read as a collected volume. Reading this series in Shojo Beat, I remember finding the recaps at the beginning of every chapter to be a bit distracting and thinking they’d be even worse if read ten minutes apart instead of one month apart.

Still, I did like the character work. The story did manage to communicate how these people both learned from each other and become better people for their relationship, which is something I seek in the genre. OTOH, the series also had a few moments where jerky behavior on the guy’s part turns out to be a sign of how intensely he loves her.