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manga: Grand Guignol Orchestra Vol 1-3
Aug. 17th, 2011 11:14 pmThis is the latest licensed offering from Kaori Yuki. As such, it's chaotic, full of beautiful, sometimes androgynous men, Goth Lolis, obsessive sibling relationships, possibly incestuous sibling relationships (there might be overlap), zombie dolls, gender confusion, gender ambiguity, utterly bizarre and somewhat creepy explanations for devotion, crossdressing nuns, adorable hedgehogs, Lewis Carroll references, and road trips. At one point, I think someone is put in a bird cage. I read these a few weeks ago, so I could be wrong.
There is a character who runs around wearing a cat mask. In a sidebar (Kaori Yuki's sidebars alone are worth the price of admission) Yuki comments that she considered putting him in a full cat suit, but thought that might be a bit much. Kaori Yuki has interesting standards for "a bit much."
I will not even attempt to explain the plot without going into extremely detailed spoilers, but it's set in a world that's supposed to be medieval France (or so Yuki says...as she points out in a sidebar, you can't really tell) that is beset by a curse that turns people into zombie dolls. The zombie dolls can only be defeated by music. Our Heroes are a 4 person orchestra mostly made up of convicts and killers who travel around using their music to save people from zombie dolls. One would rather shoot them, but that doesn't work well.
Our Main Hero (such as he can be called) in Lucille. Despite the name and the quite feminine appearance, Lucille is male. Just remember Rosiel from Angel Sanctuary. It helps. Kaori Yuki apparently realizes that it might be easy to forget Lucille is male, and so every time he sings, he rips his shirt (or whatever else he may be wearing) open.
Despite the first bit being rather nonsensical (part of it is that you don't initially realize that there are several tall, beautiful men with long, luxurious blond hair running around) but it's actually a bit less cluttered and more organized then Kaori Yuki's previous manga. Though it's still like reading 6 volumes of any other manga condensed into one volume.
There is a character who runs around wearing a cat mask. In a sidebar (Kaori Yuki's sidebars alone are worth the price of admission) Yuki comments that she considered putting him in a full cat suit, but thought that might be a bit much. Kaori Yuki has interesting standards for "a bit much."
I will not even attempt to explain the plot without going into extremely detailed spoilers, but it's set in a world that's supposed to be medieval France (or so Yuki says...as she points out in a sidebar, you can't really tell) that is beset by a curse that turns people into zombie dolls. The zombie dolls can only be defeated by music. Our Heroes are a 4 person orchestra mostly made up of convicts and killers who travel around using their music to save people from zombie dolls. One would rather shoot them, but that doesn't work well.
Our Main Hero (such as he can be called) in Lucille. Despite the name and the quite feminine appearance, Lucille is male. Just remember Rosiel from Angel Sanctuary. It helps. Kaori Yuki apparently realizes that it might be easy to forget Lucille is male, and so every time he sings, he rips his shirt (or whatever else he may be wearing) open.
Despite the first bit being rather nonsensical (part of it is that you don't initially realize that there are several tall, beautiful men with long, luxurious blond hair running around) but it's actually a bit less cluttered and more organized then Kaori Yuki's previous manga. Though it's still like reading 6 volumes of any other manga condensed into one volume.