Seimaden Vol 2
Aug. 15th, 2008 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreI should not be reading this looking for the prototypes for Cantarella characters. Except…it’s so easy in bits. I blame Laures. He’s Cesare so much is almost hurts. Hilda is kind of a combination of Sancia and Lucrezia. She leaned more towards Sancia in Vol 1, but more towards Lucrezia here. Cheryl is also a bit like Lucrezia, but maybe that’s just Higuri You’s kind of character. Tetius is Volpe if he were about 1000 times more naïve. And prettier. Roddrick is kinda like Chiaro, except I want to smack him and I’ve never wanted to smack Chiaro. Maybe a light tap upside the head from time to time.
Though, if Roddrick is Chiaro, and the whole thing is “Laures became a demon lord to save his true love’s soul but she died anyway and was reborn as Hilda, who was Roddrick’s childhood love before Laures wiped out their village,” (all this revealed early in vol 1) does this mean Seimaden is also going to be a Love Triangle of Epic Doom? Except, I can’t imagine Laures ever viewing Roddrick as more than an annoyance.
I really hope there isn’t talk about how pure and perfect Elis was the whole series. Though I wouldn’t mind seeing Hilda get annoyed and tear into someone after getting annoyed at hearing her past self talked about like such a paragon.
Higuri You also seemed to be channeling her inner Kaori Yuki (that, or the copy editor was having some problems) and her inner Clamp. Unless X/1999 came after Seimaden. I should look into that.
Though, if Roddrick is Chiaro, and the whole thing is “Laures became a demon lord to save his true love’s soul but she died anyway and was reborn as Hilda, who was Roddrick’s childhood love before Laures wiped out their village,” (all this revealed early in vol 1) does this mean Seimaden is also going to be a Love Triangle of Epic Doom? Except, I can’t imagine Laures ever viewing Roddrick as more than an annoyance.
I really hope there isn’t talk about how pure and perfect Elis was the whole series. Though I wouldn’t mind seeing Hilda get annoyed and tear into someone after getting annoyed at hearing her past self talked about like such a paragon.
Higuri You also seemed to be channeling her inner Kaori Yuki (that, or the copy editor was having some problems) and her inner Clamp. Unless X/1999 came after Seimaden. I should look into that.
A few unorganized spoilery rambles:
Ok, did Radei rape Tetius, or just rip his clothes off and brand him? I, uhm, wasn’t clear on that point…
Radei’s design and expression don’t really strike me as “evil, sadistic, murdering, possibly rapist villain” so much as “manga S&S dork who likes to hit things and thinks he’s big stuff.” His moments of pure evil are confusing me.
Cheryl and Tetius are cute which means that either she will die, or they’ll never interact again.
Hilda has a sword sealed inside her? WTFClamp?!?! That comes out for her to use when she’s threatened and Laures isn’t there to save her and save herself! Except that Roddrick is supposed to have the sword so I’m sure it’ll be his pulling it out of Hilda before long. Or Laures pulling it out. Or something.
OK! So that kid who who hangs around with Roddrick (and is trying to get Hilda killed off so she won’t distract Roddrick anymore…) is the daughter of the goddess who told Roddrick he was The Chosen One. Except the kid is a boy. I think there’s possession there, though. But the kid also calls the goddess his/her father. And that was very clearly a female who was with Roddrick.
And the count is sufficiently creepy, but I could possibly do without the maimed women all over the place. And the captain of his guards (who cuts down small children!) is a woman? I suspect there is a strange story there.
Laures did not spend this volume slutting around. I approve. Then again, he wasn’t actually around a lot…
Ok, did Radei rape Tetius, or just rip his clothes off and brand him? I, uhm, wasn’t clear on that point…
Radei’s design and expression don’t really strike me as “evil, sadistic, murdering, possibly rapist villain” so much as “manga S&S dork who likes to hit things and thinks he’s big stuff.” His moments of pure evil are confusing me.
Cheryl and Tetius are cute which means that either she will die, or they’ll never interact again.
Hilda has a sword sealed inside her? WTF
OK! So that kid who who hangs around with Roddrick (and is trying to get Hilda killed off so she won’t distract Roddrick anymore…) is the daughter of the goddess who told Roddrick he was The Chosen One. Except the kid is a boy. I think there’s possession there, though. But the kid also calls the goddess his/her father. And that was very clearly a female who was with Roddrick.
And the count is sufficiently creepy, but I could possibly do without the maimed women all over the place. And the captain of his guards (who cuts down small children!) is a woman? I suspect there is a strange story there.
Laures did not spend this volume slutting around. I approve. Then again, he wasn’t actually around a lot…