Manga Review | Pride and Prejudice

Title: Manga Classics: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen, Stacy King & Po Tse
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
Format: e-arc
Source: Netgalley
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I received an e-copy of this from netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

You may be shocked to hear that I have never read Pride and Prejudice or even seen any of the movies or the mini series, so I was going into this knowing absolutely nothing about the story itself, and this definitely made reading this manga interesting. I am honestly not a huge fan of classics and I've had Pride and Prejudice sitting on my shelf for a while, but as soon as I saw there was a manga version of this, I immediately requested this title because I find classics really hard to get into and thought that this might be different when put into this format. And I was right!

Having this classic story in manga form was amazing, easy to follow and so much more gripping than it would have been for me to read the actual book. The story flowed so easily and made so much sense (which is saying something seeing as I knew nothing about the plot in the first place!)

The art was fantastic (even though I would've liked some colour every now and again) and what I especially loved were the humorous faces that the characters would sometimes pull which were HILARIOUS! I loved how having this kind of art was bringing a modern twist to this classic story and I could tell that some of the things were added in the dialogue for this very purpose. It worked really well and it was an effortless combination of both old and new put into this manga!

I definitely recommend this, and not only for fans of Pride and Prejudice, but also people who are hesitant to pick up classics because of their writing and such. I thoroughly enjoyed this and ended up giving it a solid 4 stars!