Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie Manga, Vol. 5 by Shino Akiyama

Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie Manga, Vol. 5 Reviews

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  Mark

  I can’t give much of a plot synopsis because there isn’t one that starts the book and I don’t remember a lot of these characters or what was going on. That I still had an okay time with this volume anyway is a miracle in and of itself.
  
  Honestly, the plot is largely secondary to watching the cast tie themselves in knots over Cecilia’s antics and their infighting for her affections. Basically Lean got attacked by Killer and that’s a thing.
  
  Oh, but that Killer thing (told you) is endlessly more complicated than it needs to be and I basically called the revelation of their identity, which would be more satisfying if one character wasn’t essentially named Evil Von Evilguy.
  
  Still, the strengths of this story do tend to compensate for a plot I would consider typical at best and superfluous at worst. Those ridiculously broad wild takes that the artist wisely chose to include don’t hurt either.
  
  The big swerve this time is that Oscar figures out the truth of Cecilia’s alter ego finally, after being confronted with it in a fashion even he can’t ignore. This has the knock-on effect of changing his gay panic into regular panic as he assumes something terrible is going on that Cecilia can’t tell him about. It’s a fun way to change the narrative while keeping it mostly the same.
  
  The other big thing comes from Cecilia, as Cecil, trying to get on Mordred’s route in the game. This is a really hilarious digression as she desperately tries to build up affection points by basically being as annoying as humanly possible.
  
  That’s the sort of fun tweak that I wish the series had more of, honestly. It leads to the introduction of Grace, who turns out to be more than she appears, but in a way that I think the story has kind of done to death at this point.
  
  There’s also a really, really awkward and poorly thought out scene where Cecilia crawls into bed with Gil and he thinks about violating his sister to keep her from Oscar’s clutches. I mean, he realizes it’s a heinous idea, but the mere contemplation is pretty yikes.
  
  It’s rare that I feel the characters can carry something with a mishmash plot, yet this does pull it off somehow. These weirdo kids are mostly fun to watch interact, even as the main plot disappears under a lack of refreshing and endless convolutions. I have no idea if that antagonist who appears at the end was ever in a previous volume. Apparently yes.
  
  3 stars - uneven, to say the least, since I can’t manage to keep a thing from previous volumes straight, but the things that I love here, buried underneath its narrative, are just good enough to keep me from being completely fed up.
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  Kaitlynne

  So cute
  
  Much fluffier and sillier than Nina #11...
  
  I love it do much. Gill is precious Cecilia is hilarious. The prince is so adorable... this manga volume hits almost to the end of the 2nd light novel... do... do I need to get the light novels so I can know what happens sooner? Maybe.
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  Megan

  Things are progressing and I'm so turn on how I want this love triangle to end up.
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  nza

  20. Jan 2023
  3.5 stars!
  
  I love how everyone just loves her🤭
  
  
  27. Mar. 2024
  4 stars