CLAMP - Shirahime-Syo (Eng. trans.)
Mon, May. 23rd, 2005 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterThis is a very beautifullly produced manga with four only slightly interconnected short stories. Actually, the structure reminds me a bit of all those romance anthologies, with stories united only by a certain element. The element here is supposed to be Shirahime-Syo (The Story of the White Princess or something... translated as "Snow Princess"). Shirahime-Syo is apparently the white lady; snow supposedly falls when she cries.
I have no idea what all the stories have to do with her. I mean, they take place during winter and they are sad, and they invoke the legend of Shirahime-Syo, but it all seems completely inorganic, as though CLAMP were just tossing in the snow and the sadness so they could have a story in the book.
I did like that it took place in historical Japan (or ancient Japan, given the level of fantasy); most of the manga I've read lately has very little to do with ancient Japan on the surface level and much more to do with assorted fantasy/gothic worlds and modern day life. The art is also gorgeous, and there's one colored frontispiece (I think).
Lots of fluff with no real bite, unfortunately. But very pretty fluff.
I have no idea what all the stories have to do with her. I mean, they take place during winter and they are sad, and they invoke the legend of Shirahime-Syo, but it all seems completely inorganic, as though CLAMP were just tossing in the snow and the sadness so they could have a story in the book.
I did like that it took place in historical Japan (or ancient Japan, given the level of fantasy); most of the manga I've read lately has very little to do with ancient Japan on the surface level and much more to do with assorted fantasy/gothic worlds and modern day life. The art is also gorgeous, and there's one colored frontispiece (I think).
Lots of fluff with no real bite, unfortunately. But very pretty fluff.
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