Yuki Kaori - Godchild, vol. 04 (Eng. trans.)
Wed, Jan. 31st, 2007 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterFirst of all, the copyediting on this was awful. I spotted a ton of typos, the worst probably being "prom rose" instead of "primrose." I was very confused and started wondering when Victorian England had started having American high school rituals. There's also "Never play with a woman's feeling!" because she only has one, and if you do, what will she have left?
Best excuse for skipping out on a party ever: "Tell him that my poison collection has affected my brain."
OH MY GOD, someone dies in this by ingesting paint! And Cain comments, "Yellow paint is the most poisonous of all!" or something. Oh Cain, I love you so much.
Also: "Lady Ariadne is dead?" "I heard that she jumped off a speeding carriage and smashed into a flower shop." Lest you think this is another editorial mistake and the carriage actually smashed into the flower shop, there is a giant spread of the dead Lady Ariadne, covered with flowers.
Then Cain goes to dig up his dead love (also his half-sister)'s grave, with half of his face covered in cloth so he looks EXACTLY LIKE LUCIFER from Angel Sanctuary only with shorter flowing hair and omg I nearly died of squee.
Oh yes, Jizabel makes his return again, this time with a Tragic Past (tm) and a sewn-up, possibly reanimated dog as a companion. I could not make this stuff up if I tried.
Also, there is cloning and evil dead girls (reanimated? cloned of the dead? cloned of Cain's incestuous love and created to bear Cain's child omgwtfbbq?!) and random boys with knives in their mouths who jump out of bushes. If I hadn't already sold my soul to Yuki Kaori, I would have just because she has this tidbit of information in one of those author's notes sidebars: "About Cassian (aforementioned boy in bushes): He's really a 35-year-old man who stopped growing when he was a child [...] He's an ex-circus performer."
Oh, and Jizabel talks to the preserved organs of his mother and sisters (in jars (the organs, not Jizabel, though really, you never know)! maybe this is why he wants to put Cain's beautiful golden eyes in jars! it is almost better then decapitated heads in jars!).
And Yuki Kaori manages to take the story of Virgin Mary and twist it so it's disturbing!
Also, there is the best way to get people to stay at your house ever: "A falling boulder landed in the street and has completely blocked all traffic [...] And the weather's getting bad too."
And of course, throughout all this madness is the pure true love of a boy and hisvalet Combat Butler butler.
*dies and is dead*
Best excuse for skipping out on a party ever: "Tell him that my poison collection has affected my brain."
OH MY GOD, someone dies in this by ingesting paint! And Cain comments, "Yellow paint is the most poisonous of all!" or something. Oh Cain, I love you so much.
Also: "Lady Ariadne is dead?" "I heard that she jumped off a speeding carriage and smashed into a flower shop." Lest you think this is another editorial mistake and the carriage actually smashed into the flower shop, there is a giant spread of the dead Lady Ariadne, covered with flowers.
Then Cain goes to dig up his dead love (also his half-sister)'s grave, with half of his face covered in cloth so he looks EXACTLY LIKE LUCIFER from Angel Sanctuary only with shorter flowing hair and omg I nearly died of squee.
Oh yes, Jizabel makes his return again, this time with a Tragic Past (tm) and a sewn-up, possibly reanimated dog as a companion. I could not make this stuff up if I tried.
Also, there is cloning and evil dead girls (reanimated? cloned of the dead? cloned of Cain's incestuous love and created to bear Cain's child omgwtfbbq?!) and random boys with knives in their mouths who jump out of bushes. If I hadn't already sold my soul to Yuki Kaori, I would have just because she has this tidbit of information in one of those author's notes sidebars: "About Cassian (aforementioned boy in bushes): He's really a 35-year-old man who stopped growing when he was a child [...] He's an ex-circus performer."
Oh, and Jizabel talks to the preserved organs of his mother and sisters (in jars (the organs, not Jizabel, though really, you never know)! maybe this is why he wants to put Cain's beautiful golden eyes in jars! it is almost better then decapitated heads in jars!).
And Yuki Kaori manages to take the story of Virgin Mary and twist it so it's disturbing!
Also, there is the best way to get people to stay at your house ever: "A falling boulder landed in the street and has completely blocked all traffic [...] And the weather's getting bad too."
And of course, throughout all this madness is the pure true love of a boy and his
*dies and is dead*
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Thu, Feb. 1st, 2007 03:14 pm (UTC)Quite possible, Victorian paint had some really nasty metal-salt pigments in it.
Yellow paint is the most poisonous of all
Yep, that would be the cadmium. Sounds like the author has a decent grasp of toxicology, which given the level of bizarreness in her work may be a cause for her friends and relatives to worry ;-)
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Thu, Feb. 1st, 2007 05:51 pm (UTC)Also, I forgot to mention in the writeup because it is so insane! But yes, the woman doesn't just die from ingesting paint, no no! This is how she chooses to commit suicide! Rapidly! In front of our intrepid anti-hero, she snatches a tube of paint and starts frenetically squeezing it into her mouth!
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Tue, Aug. 14th, 2007 04:21 pm (UTC)(I'm a totally random guest. Sorry ^^;)
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Tue, Aug. 14th, 2007 09:04 pm (UTC)OMG the suicide by yellow paint! Oh Yuki Kaori, I love you SO MUCH!
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Thu, Aug. 16th, 2007 08:15 pm (UTC)Almost as good as Cain and his speech about yellow paint is the look that Riff has on his face when she swallows it. "WTF paint? O_o" I nearly cried laughing. XD
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Sun, Aug. 19th, 2007 08:41 pm (UTC)