Wanted

Not even a restricted zombie pirate?

Armeria is a young singer associated with a traveling troupe that is performing at an aristocrat’s dwelling, but the only aristocrat that she likes there is Luce. She spends the next six years chasing after them until she manages to become a cabin boy on the pirate Skull’s ship, and even though she is quickly revealed to be a girl in pursuit of the ‘dead’ Luce, the pirate leader cranium treats her relatively gently. But it feels very much like a plug and play shojo, well-executed, but lost in real dramatic tension or any surprises. hardly ever sufficient, though that is an earlier work, I think that Armeria is a stronger female lead than Yuki of Vampire Knight, but next it may be considering she doesn’t have to do as much in the story. There is additionally a one chapter backup story of love in Meiji-era Japan.

This is a fairly traditional light shojo, with the only reason I think that being rated 16+ is the one-panel of Armeria’s rather modest busom when

she is revealed to be a girl. Pirates are popular at the moment, but that is a straightforward story that doesn’t use the pirate elements or mix it up much.

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-Ferdinand

Matsuri Hino is far better known for her work on Vampire Knight, so that may of interest to her completists. By Matsuri Hino
Published in the US by Viz Shojo Beat

Slugline: certain, it’s pirates, but no ninja or samurai pirates? It is quickly revealed that the pirate leader is actually the older Luce, who had enlarged gotten tired of his aristocratic relatives’ cruelty and now acted as a maritime Robin Hood. Of course, that means he is kidnapped to be a hostage by a pirate band, named after their leader cranium. Armeria tries to rekindle the feelings she and Luce shared with the much changed cranium, while trying to help him in his piracy/acts of kindness.

[Source] Prospero’s Manga