Renai Otogibanashi: Toy Box

Bishounenized desecration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The very short compilation boogaloo

Alice Love Fables saw the ton of Alice one-shot spin-offs with only one volume and decided to take all of that conclusion-less self-insert harem fantasies and condense it onto one compact anthology. I wouldn't even call it a story, it's a collection of random scenes portraying Alice's various interactions with her ever so pretty harem. It's more on the level of previews than anything that can stand alone. And no, collecting a bunch of previews and publishing them in one volume doesn't change that. Nothing of value is present except for the self-insert relationship porn.

As usual with the Alice manga franchise, the main personality of the male characters is "being in love with Alice", which is attempted to be portrayed with a different "quirky" ways for each characters, but ultimately it doesn't really go outside the template.

The art isn't bad, though I also wouldn't call it good. It's the usual business of slacking on the background and just slapping a filter there instead of actually drawing the background, but that is sadly the deal with a typical shoujo manga. At least the characters are drawn fine.

I also don't get the deal of including Crimson Empire short stories with so much of those Alice manga side stories. It's pretty much like a pop-up adware of a franchise I care even less about. I've read the Crimson Empire manga just so I could make a relevant commentary on the side stories and I can't say that I was impressed.

Overall, this is on par with browsing a gallery of shipping fanarts, just in a manga form.