Nephilim?

[meganbmoore]

I...I...has anyone read Nephilim?  It sounds very strange, but I have a strange desire to read it.  Yet, it could be so bad...

Male by day & female by night...whoever looks upon her true form will meet with certain death. Abel is a member of the Nephilim – a unique race of people whose gender changes from day to night. Known as “Deathbringers,” it is said that whoever glances upon their bewitching nocturnal beauty will inevitably die soon after. Unfortunately for the playboy/Imperial soldier Guy, such an occurrence earns him this beautiful angel of death, hellbent on taking his life. Will Guy’s expert playboy skills be enough to conquer the beautiful Nephilim? Or will Abel succeed in killing the man who saw her true form?

Uhm...possibly, that I have read a lot of You Higuri and Clamp manga this year is having a very strong affect on my judgement.

That whole bit where I'm about to start reading Kaori Yuki probably won't help...

Comments

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

By all accounts it's supposed to be pretty terrible. I have a huge weakness for stories that deal with gender twisting and it couldn't even grab my interest.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I read a lot of the crossdressing shoujo the first few years I was reading manga, and W Juliet is one of my absolute favorites. For that matter, Les Bijoux was my first manhwa, I think, and one of my first few manga. Anyway, the gender-benders tend to really catch my eye, I think almost out of habit, and this looked like it could either be awesomely cracky, or just dull.

[jessicamee.livejournal.com]

interesting...

[advance.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds vaguely interesting... haha

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

I've read some of "Pretty Face." Sort of. Does that count?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Not sure I know what "Pretty Face" is...

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Pretty Face (out in English by Viz) is the story of a jerk no one likes who gets in a terrible crash and wakes up to find a crackpot doctor had rebuilt his face...from a photograph in the guy's pocket. Which happened to be of the girl the guy had a crush on.

I "read" the first volume in Japanese...it is the gender crack.