Minori Nagashima is a high school student bored to death with the mundane aspects of her everyday life. That is until one day at the local arcade when she defeats an opponent in a video game, and learns that very evening that the Japanese Prime Minister has selected her! "Will you be my First Lady?" Now, the guy who stole Minori's first kiss asks Minori to marry him in grand fashion!
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Who's the new PM?,
This review is from: Millennium Prime Minister Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
The politics game is in full swing and a new Prime minister is about to be announced. Yeah, yeah, most of us are as bored about hearing about it all, and Minori is no different. Ignoring the news item about the current upcoming political announcement, she heads out the door. It's too nice a day out to spend it cooped up at school, so she decides to play hooky and heads for a games arcade. There she whiles away her time beating the high scores when she notices a flurry of activity around one game in particular. Some guy is over there beating all challengers, and this looks like just the way to spice up her day. Announcing she is going to take him on, the guys are in disbelief that this waif of a high school girl seems to think she can take on an obvious games master. She trounces him royally, and that is when she gets a bit more excitement than she bargained for, as the admittedly cute guy suddenly looms over her, unexpectedly caresses her hair, and announces she will be his bride.
Certain she has attracted the attention of a wacko, she of course goes to make a quick exit, but he is having none of it. Interceding for her when she then runs into some thugs outside, he himself is then accosted by a man in a suit who chides him, but not before the young man presses a card in her hand. Whatever! She is just glad he is gone. That is, until he shows up at her school, takes her away in a limo, and the whole world learns that THIS guy has chosen her for his future First Lady. It seems that this fellow is none other than 25 year old Kanata Okazaki, youngest member of the Diet and Japan's newest, and youngest ever, Prime Minister. Just what makes him so crazy about her, and why is his aide glaring at her like that? Eiki Eiki takes a break from her more usual short story one shots and brings us the first volume of a series that is pure light hearted romance. It is admittedly a bit of crack, with decidedly eccentric characters and oddball situations popping up left right and centre, but it is a decidedly fun ride at the manga theme park. Minori serves as the perfect foil for all the zaniness as she seems to be nearly the only character with even a modicum of normality, a fact she discovers to her own surprise when even her parents become overjoyed at her engagement, despite her own weirded out protestations. Fans already familiar with Eiki Eiki's previous works will no doubt be surprised at this foray into the shojou mainstream as she previously worked fairly exclusively within the Boy's Love sector, but never fear, the yaoi is indeed given a nod to here and there. Indeed, it is a key subplot, but given the main premise, I don't think it is going to work out quite how one young man and some of Eiki Eiki's fans might like it to, though I would not be surprised if a happy ending of a sort is given due to the fluffy feel goodness of the piece. That issue however is one of the plot threads left open for future volumes, so we will just have to read on and see. ~~~Amusing related trivia- Eiki Eiki is the grandchild of former Prime minister of Japan Noboru Takeshita~~~~ I would like thank Digital Manga Publishing for providing me with a review copy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A Lightweight But Cute Series,
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This review is from: Millennium Prime Minister Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
Minori couldn't be more average. She is an ordinary girl whose only real interest is playing video games. On a day that is too nice for going to school, she skips and heads to the video arcade. She wins the game she's playing, easily beating the one guy no one else had been able to beat, when suddenly everything goes crazy. The guy (who is kinda cute, she has to admit) declares that Minori will be his new bride! She takes him for a wacko and runs, but the next day at school he shows up again. That's when Minori, who's never been much for politics, finds out that he's the newly elected 25-year-old prime minister of Japan.
Eiki's plot is pure craziness, but that's what makes it fun, or what will make it even more fun once the scene-setting and character introductions from volume one are done and the series can pick up. Since there are five main characters to introduce--Minori, Kanata the prime minister, his two friends from high school who now work for him, and his 18-year-old assistant--it makes sense that it takes most of the volume to get them onscreen and give the readers a brief idea of who they are. We can begin to see their various personalities and how they interact with one another and we're offered a glimpse of conflicts to come. All of the boys have quirks and Minori, the ordinary one of the bunch, finds navigating those quirks to be tricky. But Eiki doesn't make the mistake of explaining too much too quickly, even though this was her first long-form series (rather than her usual one-shots) and she's working in the shojo (girls') genre, rather than in her usual yaoi (boys' love) genre. The craziness of the plot requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, especially since Minori's parents are so blasé about their daughter marrying someone they've never met before. Eiki explains this by having Minori's parents tell her that their marriage was arranged, a particularly Japanese aspect of the story that regular manga readers will accept and laugh about. Nothing is explained in this volume about why Kanata would want to take Minori as his wife. He says it is because he loves her, but neither readers nor Minori really fall for that one. It's one more aspect of the story that promises to be explained in later volumes. The creepiness factor of having a 25-year-old man deciding to marry an unwilling 16-year-old is avoided by limiting Kanata's physical interest in Minori to a silly obsession with her hair. This makes readers wonder about his sexuality when they later find out why Kanata's assistant Sai is so unwelcoming to Minori, but I'm not sure that Eiki is planning on resolving that triangle in the way her usual fans might expect. That where-is-this-going aspect will make readers want to pick up future volumes of this lightweight but cute series. -- Snow Wildsmith
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Same great art, new story,
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This review is from: Millennium Prime Minister Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
The art is of course amazing, as is every book by Eiki Eiki. The story is different because it's a guy going after a girl, not guy going after a guy. I liked the story just the same. There are some yaoi moments but nothing hard core, mostly admiring from afar.
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