Fantastic Tales

Author: Huan Yi

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Type: Manhua

Chapters: 18

Tags: fantasy, historical, historical-fantasy, martial arts, shoujo

Short manhua which story starts very good and I'm not a big fan of shoujo so it means something. But when the story proceed more and more it was kind of hard for me to follow. There were too many things happening and I wasn't exactly sure what is it about anymore. I just lost the main course, which is bad.

So it starts with Xu Xuan, young boy who is a representative of Hua Yuan Shan in martial arts, because there are contest all over the country. He travels with his senior Xin Moyi. They met with some people which stick to them but then Yue Ling Long appears and it seems that she is the main character dispite the fact she is not with main group all the time. Then it became all political because there are two people which wants to rule over the country. Yue Ling Long wants to kill one because she serves the other also she fells in love with Moyi. Then it became even more complicated when her boss is actually not such a good emperor she thought and so on. So crazily complicated! I mean I don't mind complicated things but this manhua was just too short for soo much political things, so much character development, so much characters, so it felt very rushed after the half of the story. Not to mention some very cheap unoriginal plot twists.

The art is typical shoujo-ish but even it's manhua (chinese equivalent of manga) it has very Japanese-feeling art style. Pannels are also set very well so I didn't lost myself while reading, which sometimes happens to me while reading certain shoujo styled manga (some of them are so damn confusing!).

Characters are portrayed very good, they are interesting and definately not poor but sometimes I felt that they just started to act in completely different way than how they were portrayed at the start. Also their character development was too fast.

Overall, very nice shoujo with some good fights and lovable characters, but which is also bit confusing and fast-forwarded.

Rating: 6/10