Question for Higuri You fans

[meganbmoore]

Can anyone tell me what mangas these four pictures are from?  I think the middle two are from the same series.

    

Also, is this Lucrezia?  It mostly looks like her, but the hairstyle and color aren't how Higuri You usually does Lucrezia's hair.



(And Higuri You, how come no solo color pics of Hilda, huh?)

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

How graphic is Gorgeous Carat anyway, as compared to, say Cantarella? (I'm not sure if you've read Seimaden, which is more graphic.)

I've decided that it's Lucrezia because I like it.

(And looking at her artbooks online...Higuri really does love her period mangas, doesn't she?)

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Explain what you mean by "graphic"?

I have not read Seimaden, just GC and Cantarella (which I'm behind on).

And yeah, I take it that Higuri is a big European history buff.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

In terms of sex and nudity. Regardless of gender combination, I'd really rather the bedroom door close at a certain point.

(Seimaden isn't as good as Cantarella, but it's great fun.)

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

It has been a few years since I read Gorgeous Carat, but from what I recall, there is less sex than in Cantarella, but what there is is depicted more explicitly (including an IMO gratuitous rape scene). But not to the point of showing organs or anything like that.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Maybe i'll see if there are a couple volumes I can flip through in the store. If Zadei/Tetius in Seimaden doesn't set off my normal manga slash wrath (very seme/uke), then You Higuri in general should be safe. (Then again, they're also the secondary pairing, and clearly going to End Badly.)

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

It's one you should definitely try before you buy. There's only one female character in the main cast[*], and she's definitely relegated to sidekick status, with an unrequited crush thrown in as a bonus.


[*] Not the girl in the picture--I don't have any idea who she is, off the top of my head.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Lucrezia, Sancia and Hilda definitely contribute a lot to my love for Cantarella and Seimaden, even if they often do play second fiddle.

[noni-moon.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous Carat isn't graphic at all, as far as I can remember.

It had only a couple of kisses and a few suggestive scenes.. but that's about it :)

[palpitation.livejournal.com]

That's my memory of it, too. :O I really don't recalled anything graphic.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Imo GC is mostly just silly, fluffy fun (excepting that wtf of a rape scene), but some aspects might hit your squicks - like the fact that whassname, the blond boy, is literally bought by Noir, and if irc at one point he whips him as punishment for... something. I forget. But there is no rape = love trope and Noir is at least not a rapist. XD;;

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Now, see, if any of you had actually read Seimaden (or at least the first 3 volumes...) you'd be perfectly qualified to know if it would work for me...

(I think the main thing, aside from the sex, is how seme/uke is it?)

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

afaik (I've not read GC Galaxy) Noir and Florian haven't had sex yet, so it doesn't come down to actual sexual roles so far as their relationship goes, but Florian... is pretty much the quintessential uke. XD; Noir isn't really a mega-seme though, he just imagines he is.