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From the creator of the surprisingly undistinguished manga which inspired the brilliant anime Revolutionary Girl Utena comes this strikingly incoherent manga.
Opening narration: Once upon a time, the source of the devil R's invincible powers was The Book of S&M. But one day a young man stole the book without knowing what it was, cut it into strips, and used it to create a girl doll named S and a boy doll named M out of papier-mache. With that act, the unimaginable power that the devil held from the book was divided between the two dolls!
Cut to Sekai, a Japanese schoolgirl, confessing her love to her classmate Midou. Her turns her down. The train crashes, and Sekai falls through time and space, and lands on a creepy boy, Sovieul, who looks about six years old but proclaims that she is his bride. And that they're now in 17th century France. And her soul is bound to a doll he has, because they both have jewels glued to their chests. She tries to take a photo, and is attacked by a mob who think she's a witch. Creepy Boy protects her, she runs, and a guy who looks just like a more swashbuckling Mudou appears and proclaims that she is his bride. He goes away and Creepy Boy returns and explains that the doll, S, gives him the power to travel through space and time.
Then they get arrested. Then there's random court intrigue. Then they're in court and she's sentenced to death. Not!Midou appears, identified by Creepy Boy as Machiavello. They squabble over some incomprehensible backstory. Machiavello also has a gem in his chest! He disappears and Sekai is tied to a stake to be burned. Creepy Boy offers to duel for her. Aramis appears and takes him up on it. This is Aramis:
Look at his rose-like face. Aramis castrated himself as a youth when he vowed to join the church.
Machiavello appears and demands her body. There's something about Louis XIV and poison. Sekai falls through time. Machiavello gets stabbed and dies. Then he's OK again. Some of that was probably a vision, I'm not sure whose. Something explodes. Creepy Boy wins the duel with Eunuch Musketeer. More intrigue with poisoned wine. Creepy Boy and Sekai ride off together in a cart.
That, my friends, is the end of Part I! In Part II, the second half of this slim manga volume, there are random sheep, Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, and much, much, much more random appearing and disappearing.
Has anyone read more of this? Does it ever make more sense? Does it ever make less?
Opening narration: Once upon a time, the source of the devil R's invincible powers was The Book of S&M. But one day a young man stole the book without knowing what it was, cut it into strips, and used it to create a girl doll named S and a boy doll named M out of papier-mache. With that act, the unimaginable power that the devil held from the book was divided between the two dolls!
Cut to Sekai, a Japanese schoolgirl, confessing her love to her classmate Midou. Her turns her down. The train crashes, and Sekai falls through time and space, and lands on a creepy boy, Sovieul, who looks about six years old but proclaims that she is his bride. And that they're now in 17th century France. And her soul is bound to a doll he has, because they both have jewels glued to their chests. She tries to take a photo, and is attacked by a mob who think she's a witch. Creepy Boy protects her, she runs, and a guy who looks just like a more swashbuckling Mudou appears and proclaims that she is his bride. He goes away and Creepy Boy returns and explains that the doll, S, gives him the power to travel through space and time.
Then they get arrested. Then there's random court intrigue. Then they're in court and she's sentenced to death. Not!Midou appears, identified by Creepy Boy as Machiavello. They squabble over some incomprehensible backstory. Machiavello also has a gem in his chest! He disappears and Sekai is tied to a stake to be burned. Creepy Boy offers to duel for her. Aramis appears and takes him up on it. This is Aramis:
Look at his rose-like face. Aramis castrated himself as a youth when he vowed to join the church.
Machiavello appears and demands her body. There's something about Louis XIV and poison. Sekai falls through time. Machiavello gets stabbed and dies. Then he's OK again. Some of that was probably a vision, I'm not sure whose. Something explodes. Creepy Boy wins the duel with Eunuch Musketeer. More intrigue with poisoned wine. Creepy Boy and Sekai ride off together in a cart.
That, my friends, is the end of Part I! In Part II, the second half of this slim manga volume, there are random sheep, Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, and much, much, much more random appearing and disappearing.
Has anyone read more of this? Does it ever make more sense? Does it ever make less?
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Gorgeous art, though.
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Ahaha, I love your openings.
Once upon a time, the source of the devil R's invincible powers was The Book of S&M
....but....
Look at his rose-like face. Aramis castrated himself as a youth when he vowed to join the church.
NO AUDEN SEX POEMS FOR YOU, ARAMIS
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*snorts tea*
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And I think I mean that in the original sense as well as the modern.
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....you know Delany met Auden in the Village, right....?
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His mouth sucky. I could hardly believe my luck.
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The secret sluices of his juices began to unlock.
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Oh Christ, what always gets me is
I plunged with a rhythmical lunge steady and slow,
And at every stroke made a corkscrew roll with my tongue.
His soul reeled in the feeling. He whimpered "Oh!"
As I tongued and squeezed and rolled and tickled and swung.
It's the "rolled and tickled and swung" bit. I think.
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Hee. It reminds me of this recent review in the Sacramento News and Review about a collection of erotic/political stories. The story had pictures of the editor and two female contributors engaging in some mild softcore bondage...XD (Gotta love SN&R! Or hate it. The three are not mutually exclusive.)
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Indwelling excitements swelled at delights to come oh HA HA, Wystan
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(I kinda liked the Utena manga. But then, I'm also confused as to whether the anime adapted it, or they were both created in parallel, much like the movie and book of 2001.)
---L.
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Thank you for increasing my confusion. Oh, Be-Papas.
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I did kinda dig the art, though. It's the sort of thing that might be better served by whiting out the dialogue so you don't get distracted by trying to make sense of it.
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---L.
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"Okay, here's Ikuhara, and he's cackling maniacally. Then here's Chiho Saito saying 'But, no, but I don't...' And now Ikuhara is wanking madly. Okay, and then Ikurahara is like 'What if I do THIS because I can?! Mwahahaha! FRENCH!' and Saito is like 'Noooooo' and Ikurahara is going 'You know you like it, bitch' and here's Saito going '...I hate you but yes.'"
See, if you read it this way, everything is perfectly logical, including Louis XIV and the sheep. But if you read as, you know, something which is trying to tell a normal story with a plot written by rational people... then it's like being hit over the head repeatedly by a fish.
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(I don't remember if the Tokyopop translation ever mentioned this, but "Sekai" means "the world.")
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