Fairy Cube Vol 3
Dec. 2nd, 2008 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore(I originally typed "Angel Sanctuary" into the subject line...)
Though wonderfully cracked out and charmingly demented, this never really took off like Angel Sanctuary. Then again, I think Kaori Yuki tried to cram about 2/3 of the plot of Angel Sanctuary’s 20 volumes into a 3 volume series.
A mindcontrolled Rin enters a beauty contest to draw Ian out! It works! For some reason, the fairies who’ve been possessing people the whole time are now helping him.
Shira’s father is actually possessed by Balor, the fairy god Tokage freed as a child. Apparently, her mother disappeared into fairie for five years while pregnant, and Shira was only a year old when she returned, resulting in her father locking them away until her mother tried to reopen to door to fairie, but died and accidentally summoned Balor. And Shira’s weak heart has been kept going by fairies.
Ian and Tokage’s mother and aunt fled their clan because Kureha was prophecied to destroy it. I have no idea if that was ever followed up on. Apparently, Kaori Yuki forget Dad was an evil abuser, because he was mostly woeful and mourning husband and father here. I preferred it when Tokage had him chained up in the bathroom and was torturing him. Oh, and Tokage has a real name, Isaiah (thus clarifying one of the 5 or so names Shira was called in the last volume), but we’ll keep calling him Tokage to keep it simple. As much as one can when dealing with Kaori Yuki.
Kaito kept flipflopping between being a good guy and a bad guy and trying to open the door between our world and fairie, and trying to close it. I think he ended up a good guy in the end. Somewhere in there, Tokage got thrown out of Ian’s body and into Eriya’s, which suddenly aged to a teenager because apparently Eriya likes Tokage better than Ian, and Ian was thrown back into his own body. Somewhere in there, Tokage repents and swears to Shira as she’s dying due to no more fairies making her heart work after she betrays Balor that he’ll make up for all the bad they did. Kaito also either said that he put the seal to the door inside of Ainsel, or Ainsel is the seal that he put into a fairy body. I’m not sure which it was, but it resulted in Ainsel getting what she wanted (with Kaito forever) so I approve. Though I question Kaito’s telling the twins to tell Eriya’s grandmother that she’ll always be his girl as he’s going off to be with another girl forever.
And people can see fairies and Rin’s emotions no longer make things spontaneously combust.
There’s also a backup story called Psycho Knockers about Tokage and Raven gathering up all the evil spirits they let loose. It would have been pretty cool if it hadn’t revolved around “pretty girl hangs out with plain girl to look good, then steals guy plain girl likes.” Still, I won’t object if Kaori Yuki writes more about them.
Kaori Yuki commented that she wanted to make the ending sadder at first. She said the same thing with Angel Sanctuary. I wonder if she’ll ever get her sad/bittersweet ending. (No spoiling me if another one does have such an ending.)
Not that I don’t still have eleven volumes of Count Cain/Godchild to go, but does anyone know if any more of Kaori Yuki’s titles have been licensed?
Though wonderfully cracked out and charmingly demented, this never really took off like Angel Sanctuary. Then again, I think Kaori Yuki tried to cram about 2/3 of the plot of Angel Sanctuary’s 20 volumes into a 3 volume series.
A mindcontrolled Rin enters a beauty contest to draw Ian out! It works! For some reason, the fairies who’ve been possessing people the whole time are now helping him.
Shira’s father is actually possessed by Balor, the fairy god Tokage freed as a child. Apparently, her mother disappeared into fairie for five years while pregnant, and Shira was only a year old when she returned, resulting in her father locking them away until her mother tried to reopen to door to fairie, but died and accidentally summoned Balor. And Shira’s weak heart has been kept going by fairies.
Ian and Tokage’s mother and aunt fled their clan because Kureha was prophecied to destroy it. I have no idea if that was ever followed up on. Apparently, Kaori Yuki forget Dad was an evil abuser, because he was mostly woeful and mourning husband and father here. I preferred it when Tokage had him chained up in the bathroom and was torturing him. Oh, and Tokage has a real name, Isaiah (thus clarifying one of the 5 or so names Shira was called in the last volume), but we’ll keep calling him Tokage to keep it simple. As much as one can when dealing with Kaori Yuki.
Kaito kept flipflopping between being a good guy and a bad guy and trying to open the door between our world and fairie, and trying to close it. I think he ended up a good guy in the end. Somewhere in there, Tokage got thrown out of Ian’s body and into Eriya’s, which suddenly aged to a teenager because apparently Eriya likes Tokage better than Ian, and Ian was thrown back into his own body. Somewhere in there, Tokage repents and swears to Shira as she’s dying due to no more fairies making her heart work after she betrays Balor that he’ll make up for all the bad they did. Kaito also either said that he put the seal to the door inside of Ainsel, or Ainsel is the seal that he put into a fairy body. I’m not sure which it was, but it resulted in Ainsel getting what she wanted (with Kaito forever) so I approve. Though I question Kaito’s telling the twins to tell Eriya’s grandmother that she’ll always be his girl as he’s going off to be with another girl forever.
And people can see fairies and Rin’s emotions no longer make things spontaneously combust.
There’s also a backup story called Psycho Knockers about Tokage and Raven gathering up all the evil spirits they let loose. It would have been pretty cool if it hadn’t revolved around “pretty girl hangs out with plain girl to look good, then steals guy plain girl likes.” Still, I won’t object if Kaori Yuki writes more about them.
Kaori Yuki commented that she wanted to make the ending sadder at first. She said the same thing with Angel Sanctuary. I wonder if she’ll ever get her sad/bittersweet ending. (No spoiling me if another one does have such an ending.)
Not that I don’t still have eleven volumes of Count Cain/Godchild to go, but does anyone know if any more of Kaori Yuki’s titles have been licensed?