Disney Manga: Descendants - Rotten to the Core, Book 2: The Rotten to the Core Trilogy (2) (Disney Manga: Descendants - The Rotten to the Core Trilogy)

My third graders live these books

My daughter loved getting this for Christmas! Follows the movie nicely!

Let me begin by telling you I’ve never seen the movie and haven’t read volumes 1 or 3 of this Disney Manga trilogy. Based on the blurb and cover illustration, we’ve got some kids who spend a considerable amount of time at the hairdressers and who usually live on the Isle of the Lost with their Disney baddie parents - Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar and Cruella De Vil.I don’t know how or why but these baddies in training have been invited to attend a yuppie prep school in Auradon alongside the goody two-shoes Disney hero kids. Our baddie Descendants are Mal (purple hair), Evie (blue hair), Jay (really long hair and probably brushes it a hundred times a day to keep it silky smooth), and Carlos (likely to be bleached, extremely likely to be highly styled, spiky hair).Baddie parents are counting on baddie kids to act the part in their evil scheme to overthrow the goody two-shoes and take over the kingdom (or maybe just the Auradon part or is Auradon the kingdom?!). Will baddie kids be bad or will they save the kingdom by “embracing their innate goodness”. Hmm… “embracing their innate goodness”. I suppose we are in the Wonderful World of Disney. 🧚‍♂️I’m not overly sure what happened in this volume other than it being a set up for the grand finale where our baddie heroes decide if they’re more baddie or hero. Other than that there were enough “I need a boyfriend” conversations, makeovers, cheerleaders and insta-love magic style to make me extremely grateful I’m done with high school.If you loved the movie then you should like this trilogy because, from what I’ve read, it’s a play by play of the movie’s highlight reel. Personally I think I’ll give the rest of this trilogy a miss and will give the movie a very wide berth.I like my villains to be of the sarcastic, funny, evil variety that is destined to die but they’re going to entertain you until then, like Hans Gruber from Die Hard or Peter Krieg, A.K.A., Simon Gruber (Hans’ brother) from Die Hard with a Vengeance. I want to love my villains, not watch them magically transform into someone we can all look to for moral guidance. If you want your villains to have a lightbulb moment and turn syrupy sweet this may be the story for you.Thank you so much to NetGalley, TokyoPop and Diamond Book Distributors for the opportunity to read Volume 2 of this Disney Manga trilogy.

Daughter Mine is a huge Descendants fan. I've seen the original movie half a dozen times. The songs from the 2nd movie are now part of my brain.This manga is very cute and very true to the first movie. Note that it's just a portion of the movie - equivalent I guess to a couple of chapters? And if you've seen the movie, it is exactly the same.The graphics are bright, adorable, and true to the movie in a very manga way!Now, my daughter would have preferred same graphics, characters, etc. with a different story line. As far as she was concerned, it was really cool but nothing new. I get that. I would have liked a new plot as well.But this is great for your manga loving kid!*ARC Provided via Net Galley

Estan buenisimos, excelente y la historia super bien narrada me encanto, los dibujos estan muy bien hechos la trilogia esta de coleccion