Yuki Kaori - Grand Guignol Orchestra, vol. 01 (Chi. trans.)
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It is a new Yuki Kaori series! With gender bending!! And killer dolls!!! Called Guignols!!!!
ILU YUKI KAORI ILU.
The Galatea virus somehow turns people into flesh-eating dolls who roam around trying to catch prey; people mostly live in walled cities to avoid them. A mysterious court rules the land. It's not quite sure what they do yet, but given that it is an authoritative figure in a Yuki Kaori series, i am certain they are corrupt and morally bankrupt.
Lucille, Kohaku, and Gwindel compose a (very tiny) orchestra whose music somehow destroys the Guignol dolls.
Right now, it looks like the series is fairly episodic, a la early Cain Saga/Godchild, but we're already getting very brief glimpses into Lucille's Sekrit Angsty Backstory.
Spoilers as only Yuki Kaori can do
OMG SEKRIT TWIN! Who is dead due to her brother's carelessness! Who is not actually dead but is instead masquerading as her brother! Who decides to keep living with her brother's name out of guilt!
Yuki Kaori is frequently horrible when it comes to gender, but I forgive her so much JUST FOR THAT! I have been waiting for a girl in manga to take on a dead sibling's name out of sheer angst! Sadly, Eles (previously Celestite) does not have a tragic earring as well, although I suppose the piano substitutes quite well. The CRYSTAL piano!
I kind of totally love that there are two gender-bending characters in this (Lucille and Eles). I also hope Eles will have more to do than to simply be the ordinary person to comment on the rest of the group's hijinks, and that she will have further angst to come, as opposed to just getting one bit of cool backstory and never being the center of attention again.
And in the next story, we get a kickass woman who came out of the same singing school as Lucille. I dearly hope we see more of Spinel, because as of right now, I love her. There are also mother issues a la Psycho, modified dolls, and an army of doll maids.
Also, there is a pet hedgehog that lives in a hat. And offering your flesh to be eaten as an expression of true love.
And did I mention the FLESH-EATING DOLLS who can ONLY BE DEFEATED BY MUSIC?
So far, no zombie doll fetus armadas, but I am confident they (or something of that ilk) will be in future volumes! I'm also hoping that this is a nice long series with room for many, many cracktastic plot twists, because while Fairy Cube was fun, it was too short for me to get very attached to the characters. Also, the ending was largely incomprehensible, but that seems par for the course. I feel the solution to that is to just have more awesome middle so no one cares if they can't figure out the ending.
It is a new Yuki Kaori series! With gender bending!! And killer dolls!!! Called Guignols!!!!
ILU YUKI KAORI ILU.
The Galatea virus somehow turns people into flesh-eating dolls who roam around trying to catch prey; people mostly live in walled cities to avoid them. A mysterious court rules the land. It's not quite sure what they do yet, but given that it is an authoritative figure in a Yuki Kaori series, i am certain they are corrupt and morally bankrupt.
Lucille, Kohaku, and Gwindel compose a (very tiny) orchestra whose music somehow destroys the Guignol dolls.
Right now, it looks like the series is fairly episodic, a la early Cain Saga/Godchild, but we're already getting very brief glimpses into Lucille's Sekrit Angsty Backstory.
Spoilers as only Yuki Kaori can do
OMG SEKRIT TWIN! Who is dead due to her brother's carelessness! Who is not actually dead but is instead masquerading as her brother! Who decides to keep living with her brother's name out of guilt!
Yuki Kaori is frequently horrible when it comes to gender, but I forgive her so much JUST FOR THAT! I have been waiting for a girl in manga to take on a dead sibling's name out of sheer angst! Sadly, Eles (previously Celestite) does not have a tragic earring as well, although I suppose the piano substitutes quite well. The CRYSTAL piano!
I kind of totally love that there are two gender-bending characters in this (Lucille and Eles). I also hope Eles will have more to do than to simply be the ordinary person to comment on the rest of the group's hijinks, and that she will have further angst to come, as opposed to just getting one bit of cool backstory and never being the center of attention again.
And in the next story, we get a kickass woman who came out of the same singing school as Lucille. I dearly hope we see more of Spinel, because as of right now, I love her. There are also mother issues a la Psycho, modified dolls, and an army of doll maids.
Also, there is a pet hedgehog that lives in a hat. And offering your flesh to be eaten as an expression of true love.
And did I mention the FLESH-EATING DOLLS who can ONLY BE DEFEATED BY MUSIC?
So far, no zombie doll fetus armadas, but I am confident they (or something of that ilk) will be in future volumes! I'm also hoping that this is a nice long series with room for many, many cracktastic plot twists, because while Fairy Cube was fun, it was too short for me to get very attached to the characters. Also, the ending was largely incomprehensible, but that seems par for the course. I feel the solution to that is to just have more awesome middle so no one cares if they can't figure out the ending.