Märchen Crown - Ch. 11 - Just Like You

[MangaDex]

 

[SuperOniichan]

Don't tell me that the cursed prince who told Mikel a little more about how their curse works is actually Cinderella's Prince. If that's true, then someone's theory that we'd get a series of fairytale princesses and their princes as love interests was true. But either way, after Rapunzel is kidnapped by the local Inquisition, Mikel actually gets a chance to use that curse to protect the one he loves.

 

[deusaqua]

11 chapters in, we're roughly 1/3rd as far as Renai Daikou got before getting axed. We're at a point where we can see where this story has the same struggles:

Rapunzel is a weak protagonist. She's not proactive, she's not even reactive. Things just sort of happen to her. In 11 chapters, 4(?) of them end with her being dragged away by various men. Why is the story centered on a passive character? Feels almost gratuitous, like her role is for traumatic things to happen to her to set a dark fantasy tone.

Mikel is a more proactive character (excepting how he's been sidelined the last few chapters), but a protagonist he's unrelatable because his background is a mystery box. There's no good read on the character until there's an explanation about his curse and how he lived alongside monsters.

The story seems afraid to commit to one of these two being the main protagonist over the other and we're stuck with the worst of both worlds where neither quite have the development they needed to in the first few chapters.

I think the next chapter is going to be prophetic of whether or not this series is recoverable or doomed; if it commits into some form of narrative or remain in a directionless state.

 

[pink_rabbit]

I wish we got an introduction of who he is. I wonder if he's princess charming or the one who ran away with the younger sister

 

[fight2live]

if they can rescue rapunzel i really REALLY hope they would then take her back to her witch tower

 

[Redsaint]

100% our boy is gonna have to fight this prince to the death to ”save” their respective ladies.

 

[Koshin_127]

Introducing an important character out of nowhere...