Koihime Soushi

Vol: 1; Ch: 5
2005
3.071 out of 5 from 26 votes
Rank #36,794
Koihime Soushi

Princess Koiko falls tragically in love with her samurai bodyguard, Shirou. Can their love defeat the circumstances that threaten to keep them apart. Can they survive the dangers that surround them? Together in love, they may conquer all!

Source: Tokyopop

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nathandouglasdavis
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Princess Koiko has the power to use a Love Love Beam. And the story revolves around this special power, but its functionality is very badly explained. Feir kingdom lives in peace because of this power (somehow). This power is passed down within the royal family, but fe'll lose the power once fe gets married (somehow). Feir power seems to make most people love fem and become compliant to feir wishes, but makes Ginjirou reminisce about feir lost love Ohana and doesn't seem to affect Shirou at all (with no clear explanation as to why these cases are different, or for that matter what the Beam is actually doing). There is a creature named Chu which is the spirit of a staff which is related to the beam (but the nature of the spirit and the staff and their exact relation to the power isn't entirely clear). The actual plot largely revolves around fem having an arranged marriage, but running off after Shirou because fe loves fem and wants to be with fem. Fe runs into Ginjirou, a thief who also has a star-crossed lovers type situation and wants to help fem, but seems to just make things worse. Shirou is following feir journey while disguising femself as various people fe meets along the way. Fe also uses some sort of memory-alteration technique to make fem think that people around fem have been dying, when actually they weren't. In other words, fe wanted fem to be traumatized and guilt-ridden...and fe supposedly loves fem. I can't say that I understand feir motives. I think the biggest problem with this manga is that it doesn't have good exposition. It could be an issue with the translation, but I think it's more likely it's an issue of the author just glossing over important things and trying to include too many twists and turns, but not making them clear along the way.

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