And she honestly had protentional to become a great character at some point! Even I didn't read the manga much since I only saw like the beginning of it that as a Aristocats fan, just feels off. Especially that the fact that Marie can suddenly talk to humans now! Anyway, as for Miriya, her characterization tried to be decent on how she's sick of her spoiled life while also missing her parents. But it just could've been better if Miriya had a better adventure that didn't involve on becoming a cutesy magical witch while also being stuck in 1910's Paris! And not only just that, we even get rivals like Leon and... "Blackey". As for these two, they're a human boy and talking black cat that aren't far off from Miriya and Marie when it comes to the whole magical training thing going on. Plus, Leon teases Miriya at times that I just wasn't into like it was supposed to be like this "ship tease"? And Marie and ugh, "Blackey" don't get along at times. Perhaps that makes up for Toulouse and Berlioz being absent...? Speaking of Marie's two bother's that I've mentioned, we honestly don't know what happened to them!
Yeah, and those two aren't the only ones missing out in this manga... There's no more swinging alley cats that play jazz or talking geese like you'll see in the movie (aside from talking mice or horses, I guess). And from what I've heard of (if this is true), there's even no Thomas O'Malley! Especially when Marie was showing Duchess to Miriya that probably they didn't care to mention him anymore (alongside with Duchess getting much more of a lesser role on top of it).
Aside from the problems, the art style is nice. But even drawings themselves can't save a badly written/mediocre story! And I'll possibly talk more about this manga someday whenever I read the manga better to get pass that beginning (but I'm actually not buying it since I'm not wasting my money just in case as I already bought a comic this year... A Chuck E. Cheese one at that).
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