Higuri You - Cantarella, vol. 03 (Eng. trans.)

[oyceter]

Huh. Ok. I keep bouncing back and forth wrt this series: I thought vol 1 was boring, I liked vol. 2, and I am completely weirded out by the cracktasticness of vol. 3.

Possibly this is because I keep reading them half a year apart. But um, yeah. I wasn't expecting Cesare Borgia to be damned quite that literally. I mean, I knew it was literal, but... wow. That was literal.

For example, I was not expecting his dead mother to turn into some bare-breasted demon thing solely to torture him! Though I suspect that will be more in the next volume than this. Nor did I expect for his blood to be some kind of demonic elixir!

Also, there is a magical moth man. The guy! He turns into a moth! Except he still has a human head! It is SO BIZARRE!

Possibly this was all mentioned in vols. 1-2, but I forgot?

Because dude! Moth man! Elixir blood!

And I keep wanting to shake my head at Chiaro, who is an assassin, but apparently a rather unworldly assassin. Because it doesn't feel like Cesare has asked him to do anything dreadful that is beyond the normal scope of assassins. I get that killing kids sucks, but ... Chiaro is an assassin! I mean, if Cesare asked him to murder a child and then do some sort of Satanic ritual with the body and then dance in the graveyard, ok.

Possibly my expectation for fictional Gothic assassins is a little up there.

In conclusion: Moth man?!

Comments

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Moth man! IMO the most cracktastic thing about the moth man is not that he is a moth, or that he has a human head; it's his name. (I don't think his real name is revealed until a later volume, so I am not going to spoil it here.)

And yes, Chiaro is a terrible assassin. But he's pretty!

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I just picked up volumes 1-4 of this series without knowing anything about it. I just saw pretty, pretty men on the covers and figured I buy first, drool, then ask questions....mothman....I'm kinda scared to start them now. I just got done reading "The Mothman Prophecies" for my folklore class and everytime I see the words moth man, I kinda twitch. That book was awful.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I have completely given up on Higure You. The art is nice and all, but I feel that the crack does not actually come from id. It comes from editors, or something, and so lacks narrative sense. And I also have to decided that art is shallow. Because I am petty that way.

[oyceter]

I keep wondering if moth man is Machiavelli and then realizing I am probably displacing him by centuries.

But seriously... OMG head of guy on a moth!

[oyceter]

Hee!

He's pretty freaking bizarre! I mean, probably not as scary as "Mothman Prophecies," though I would not know since I have not read that, but am guessing because I am a giant horror wimp. But still... bizarre!

[oyceter]

Hee!

Yeah... I think I am about to give up on Cantarella again. Because I should totally be laughing in glee at elixir blood and demons and moth men, except I am more puzzled and weirded out than amused.