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Soryo Fuyumi - Eternal Sabbath, vol. 06 (Eng. trans.)
Hrm, interesting developments...
Also, abortion in manga! Saying "cool" doesn't come off the right way, but I am glad that the topic is addressed and that it's presented as a viable option.
On the other hand, I am a bit squicked by Yuri's mother saying that she chose the abortion to concentrate more on Yuri, but I'm not quite sure what's behind that squick. Part of it may be that I am very wary of maternal sacrifices for children, particularly when it's used to prove just how much a mother loves her child.
Hrm, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that's where the squick is coming from. (I am pro-choice, but anti-guilt-tripping... it's not quite guilt tripping here, but it treads closely enough to make me squirm.)
And while I very much like the Yuri-Mine relationship, I'm a little wary because most manga I've read ends up making their unfeminine heroines more feminine by the end, and I really don't want to see that happening to Mine. I guess we'll see how it goes; so far, I like how Mine talks to Yuri and how it's portrayed as her growing more accustomed to human interaction.
I didn't realize this while reading it, but it seems pretty clear now that Mine-Yuri and Yuri and her mom are being linked a little with Shuro and his (fake) parents. I'm not sure if it's a deliberate parallel, but I like that the humanization of Shuro and Mine is happening via non-romantic relationships, though I am a bit offput that Mine's is pushing her oh-so-slightly toward a more motherly role whereas Shuro is in the role of the dutiful son/future head of household.
Still, interesting. And hrm, I am probably reading too much into things looking at Shuro's euthanasia of his father with Yuri's mother's abortion, but it's interesting to contrast these deaths (if you count an abortion as a death) with Isaac's murders.
And now I'm wondering if Mine was an early early prototype of the psychic kids!
Also, abortion in manga! Saying "cool" doesn't come off the right way, but I am glad that the topic is addressed and that it's presented as a viable option.
On the other hand, I am a bit squicked by Yuri's mother saying that she chose the abortion to concentrate more on Yuri, but I'm not quite sure what's behind that squick. Part of it may be that I am very wary of maternal sacrifices for children, particularly when it's used to prove just how much a mother loves her child.
Hrm, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that's where the squick is coming from. (I am pro-choice, but anti-guilt-tripping... it's not quite guilt tripping here, but it treads closely enough to make me squirm.)
And while I very much like the Yuri-Mine relationship, I'm a little wary because most manga I've read ends up making their unfeminine heroines more feminine by the end, and I really don't want to see that happening to Mine. I guess we'll see how it goes; so far, I like how Mine talks to Yuri and how it's portrayed as her growing more accustomed to human interaction.
I didn't realize this while reading it, but it seems pretty clear now that Mine-Yuri and Yuri and her mom are being linked a little with Shuro and his (fake) parents. I'm not sure if it's a deliberate parallel, but I like that the humanization of Shuro and Mine is happening via non-romantic relationships, though I am a bit offput that Mine's is pushing her oh-so-slightly toward a more motherly role whereas Shuro is in the role of the dutiful son/future head of household.
Still, interesting. And hrm, I am probably reading too much into things looking at Shuro's euthanasia of his father with Yuri's mother's abortion, but it's interesting to contrast these deaths (if you count an abortion as a death) with Isaac's murders.
And now I'm wondering if Mine was an early early prototype of the psychic kids!
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I just finished it, and I'm not sure what to say about it. This series always seems to need reflection, rather than a quick and easy reaction.
I understand what you mean about the mother issues, but I think they're being dealt with in a realistic way. At least, I don't feel like motherhood is being idealized for Mine at all, but rather I think every woman ends up confronting motherhood issues at some point in her life, no matter how she feels about the institution in the abstract, and if ES is showing that ambivalence, it seems to be doing it better than a lot of series would.
I know that the reason I decided not to have children was at least mostly the fear of passing on my own dysfunctional mother/daughter history, but it still hasn't kept me from hearing the biological clock or feeling the baby lust. And I'm starting to hit the age where even if I changed my mind, my body might not be able to manage it. And that's okay. I like that Mine is shown as being self aware, even if that self awareness is sometimes paralyzing.
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I mean... I get that motherhood is something many women end up thinking about, but some part of me resents that, particularly because of how the media feeds into why women "should" think about motherhood. And I'm also wary because of how many stories about adult women end up being concerned with motherhood -- for once, I want a woman who is not having kids and is ok with not having kids and it's no big deal.
But yeah, it will depend on how the series goes.
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But yeah the abortion was very surprising.
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I've been following her latest series, Cesare, which kind of has the same measured pacing as Eternal Sabbath but with more intrigue and philosophical tangents. (Borgias! The new manga black!) The scanlated chapters release pretty slow though, so for the life of me, I can't remember what happened in the last chapter.
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They're the folks who were scanlating Eternal Sabbath before it was picked up by Del Rey.
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