I admit that this is a little late for my usual two-posts-per-week. Let us just leave it at "Real Life" and move on.

Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen translates roughly to "Absolute/Ultimate Peace Plan", which happens to be the primary premise of the manga: two countries were at war, but peace was quickly declared when it was discovered that the prince of one country and the princess of another were deeply in love with each other. Prince Johanne is a proud warrior, and Princess Euda is a gentle healer, as keeping with traditional gender roles or some such. However, the truth of the matter is that the True Love is not exactly True, and indeed only an act to stop the senseless violence from continuing. And so now Johanne and Euda have to learn how to live with each other, while pretending to be lovey-dovey in public.

This, incidentally, is not a spoiler, since the manga takes immense pains to mention all of this at the beginning of every chapter. It's as tedious as it sounds.

Even so, I find myself fascinated by this manga, despite it being very, well, shoujo. For everyone who criticizes moe anime for being repetitive and unimaginative, please take note of the incessant refrains of "I love him! Wait, no I don't! Wait, yes I do!" that make up the majority of the inner monologues. And Johanne, in true shoujo love interest style, is pretty much a jerk, albeit with the requisite Heart Of Gold. Most of the manga is told from Euda's point of view, which does mean that she gets the vast majority of screentime.

And that, perhaps, is why I'm still reading this: apart from the amusing situations Euda gets herself into in trying to make herself love Johanne (except not really, except yes, except no, except yes), she's fairly short, and has pretty much one dress style. Comedy is thus obtained in inverse proportion to Euda's height.

(Also, Euda reminds me so much of Kyonko that I'm starting to associate the two together now. This is a little odd.)