Summary: A princess who was sent to the enemies' nation in order to bring peace and prosperity by having her marry the prince of the opposite kingdom. The story follows the princess's point of view, so we'll see her romance with the prince, her development as a character since she's never really seen the world, and it's later explain she has the power to see the future. The world in this setting is shown that people with black hair are nobles, any other colored hair are shown as commoners, and beast people are shown as slaves... so yes, the princess herself has red hair, so the story follows heavily on that.

Story (7): I picked this manga by random, I read one chapter and yeah, one chapter became the whole series. It's not anything out of the ordinary, but it should have enough originality to keep you reading, although the setting is cliche itself, the love story has been done before many times, and there's too much left to be desired. When I was reading, there's moments where I wanted to know more about certain plot points, but they were sidelined, there's certain characters that were pretty good themselves but didn't get any time to shine in the light, Arcana itself wasn't built upon and was left a mystery til the end and so on. I gave the story an average score because of these few reasons, but there's enough twists, turns drama, and romance to keep you reading. Just one thing I want to elaborate on, it's one of those stories where it started out a bit confusing and makes more sense while you keep reading... up to the end.

Art (7): The art isn't too great with all honesty, but it's good enough to look at atleast. So don't expect Picasso!

Character (8): I've seen these characters before, but it doesn't mean that I didn't love them. Nakaba left a really good impression on me, I really thought she was cute and inspiring, something I don't really see in many animes/manga I've watched/read. Loki and Caesar are great characters in their own right, just that they are the same characters you've read in many other romance stories. The support and minor cast are average at best, they leave a load of rooms to develop on, but they get easily overshadow from the main cast. If Nakaba was another character, this would've gotten a 6 or 7.

Enjoyment (9): Like I've said, one chapter became the whole series. The twist and turns were enough for me to want to keep reading and the last few chapters really made me go 'wow....!" I wish Reimei no Arcana would put more of its focus on the Arcana itself, and put action in this genre, because there's parts in this story that really calls for both, but for what it's worth now, I don't mind reading it again in the near future.

Overall (8): Even though the story is cliche with a bit of originality, the art still needs room to be improved on, and only one out of all of the characters left a really fine expression.... I still enjoyed it, and I will love if the author decides to make a sequel and expand the universe of Arcana, because the setting still needs to be explored and there's still so much left to be told.

By the way, don't you dare ship LokixNakaba, you'll see why it's disgusting at the end lol. ~ Shaney @69th Street