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Manga readers with a taste for stylish, delirious melodrama will enjoy this addition to the long-running "The Cain Saga" which also includes the manga series Angel Sanctuary. Late 19th-century London society women swoon at the sight of slender, sloe-eyed young Lord Cain, Earl of Hargreaves. They don't recognize his hereditary burden of melancholy, from which he distracts himself by tracking down dangerous maniacs. He is accompanied and sometimes aided by Riff, his manservant and extremely close companion, and by his doll-like, 10-year-old half-sister, Marie, who serves as an unwitting lure for serial killers. Cain is menaced by his mad-scientist half-brother Dr. Jizabel Disraeli, assassin for a secret criminal organization founded by Cain's monstrously abusive father. The four stories in this volume are thankfully self-contained, each developing from an initially baffling mystery into a frenzy of dark revelations and derring-do, after which Cain is left cuddling Marie or gazing soulfully at Riff. Yuki's stories revel in hints of spiritual angst and kinky tendencies, reinforcing the hero's romantic alienation. Her art is lovingly detailed but dramatically cut, with startlingly odd angles and abrupt jumps from closeups to distant shots; managing to create and sustain a giddy mood in which the absurd action can be convincing and even moving. (Mar.)
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Deep in the heart of 19th century London, a young nobleman named Cain walks the shadowy cobblestone streets of the aristocratic society into which he was born. Forced to become an earl upon the untimely death of his father, Cain assumes the role of head of the Hargreaves, a noble family with a dark past. With Riff, his faithful manservant, and Mary Weather, his 10-year-old half sister, Cain investigates the mysterious crimes that seem to follow him wherever he goes.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews)
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ridiculously good., Mar 19 2006
By Holly "junkstory" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Godchild, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Ah, Kaori Yuki. How do I love thee. Let me count the ways:
You've taken nursery rhymes and twisted them into murder mysteries;
You create artwork that is simultaneously beautiful and violent;
You mold the most absurd scenarios into moving stories;
You've captured a protagonist who is every bit as twisted and psychotic as his enemies;
You've encapsulated comic relief in a GWAHAHAing buffoon named Oscar;
You filled each episode with trivia on everything from opera to medieval torture masks;
You've saved the subtlety of an unlikely love story for the very last scenes of a Victorian tragedy.
I do hope that Viz eventually releases the first five volumes of the Cain series to add depth to Kaori's voice. But even without them, Godchild bewitches.
The venue of 'Shojo Beat' slightly perturbs me, since Godchild must share space with relationship-centered fluff. It's like shelving Irvine Welsh in the romance section. Does not compute. But Viz is doing quite well with the translation and staying true to the heart of the story.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
deliciously creepy, Mar 29 2006
A Kid's Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Godchild, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Godchild was my third Kaori Yuki manga. I dislike shojo in general, but her stories can reach out to both boys and girls (though why a guy would want to read a story about a preposturously attractive nobleman with pierced ears I may never know). Godchild is very different from Angel Sanctuary. It is less gory/bloody, there is less of a plot at the beginning, and it is more realistic in the fact that there are not many spirits and very little angels/demons and the like. The themes, however, are pretty much the same-- forbidden love, murder, death, destruction, destiny, and family relationships, only this time the story focuses on Cain, a beautiful seventeen(ish) year old nobleman living in a 19th century London where he is constantly stalked by murder and mystery. Always gluied to the side of Riffuel Raffit (called Riff), his faithful butler, he attempts to sort out his troubled (more than you know) past and find his evil father, who may or may not be dead. Sounds pretty tame, right? Well, for Kaori Yuki, this certainly is a very tame first volume. There is blood in this volume, yes, but it is very minimal, and you don't see the gore like you did in Angel Sanctuary. It gets worse (at least a little bi worse) in volumes to come, but I think that Godchild is different from Angel Sanctuary in the fact that it is more of a rather violent crime drama (with some mature themes thrown into the mix) than it is a oh-my-god-they-just-blew-up-that-guys-head-and-oh-my-god-they-are-ripping-peoples-limbs-off! thingamabob. Which is good, if you're like me, and find a voluminous amount of blood, gore, and cannibalism rather disturbing after the fifth time it's happened in one volume. Kaori Yuki's art is still fantastic, but a little bit cramped, and some pictures in the Atogaki will make fangirls squeal in delight. Yay Godchild! Hopefully Viz will keep up the rather faithful translation in future volumes! ^^
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ba, ba, black sheep, Mar 16 2006
By Ari Welsh - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Godchild, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Being a big fan of Kaori Yuki and her spooky tales, and Count Cain being my favorite among them all, I couldn't but shiver with the deepest dread and fear when I got to know it had been licensed, not just that but it had been taken by Viz. Even so I couldn't help myself, I couldn't resit the idea of actually own a copy of the first volume and being able to read it curled up in bed instead of frying my eyeballs at the computer.
What I got, while not the flawless work I would have wished for Godchild, is still good, and I'm still glad I own it.
The artwork is all there, no censure this time for a change.
The translation, it does stumbles at times, but is still Kaori Yuki's Godchild, what annoyed me was that Merry kept addressing Cain as, well, "Cain" instead of "brother" or what would have been better "big brother", I just couldn't understand what they were trying to accomplish with that, and the way they used every opportunity to remark Cain was only her "half-brother" I can see how that is somewhat necessary without the first 5 volumes to give you the back story, but once would have been enough.
As for the slashy bits, I was so very happy when I arrived to one of my favorites at the end of Black Sheep. "You're the only one in this world who can touch my scars, Riff" they didn't mess that up, Godchild just might have a chance.
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