Fairy Cube # 1, by Kaori Yuki

Ian was born with a birthmark of butterfly wings on his back and can see fairies. Until his abusive father burned off his wings! Ian has a fairy companion or possibly alter ego, unseen by anyone else, the evil lizard spirit Tokage. Ian's best friend Rin, who was abused by her mother, was the only person who believed in Ian's fairies. Then their respective abusive parents ganged up and separated them. Or something like that.

Now people are dropping dead with blood exploding from their backs in the shape of wings. A mysterious guy gives Ian a cube with a lizard inside. And then many spoilers lead to the actual text in the spoiler-cut, which believe it or not is a single sentence of dialogue, spoken by a character upon her first appearance:

( Discovering that a missing child that was thrown from the car is still alive... the child of my daughter, who ran off with the butler and died in a car accident ten years ago along with her husband. )

Wings and blood and fairies fly in all directions!

Very beautiful, very eventful, very incoherent. To get an idea of the experience of reading the manga, print out my synopsis above, cut out each sentence individually, toss them in the air, and then read them scattered on the floor while alternately glancing at gorgeous pictures and playing Steeleye Span.

Fairy Cube # 2, by Kaori Yuki

Just as pretty, twice as incoherent!

Um... there was a sacrifice to an evil bloodthirsty Celtic fairy God, and I think Tokage has the power to turn into knives, and there's a sandworms and a fairy Halliburton and its androgynous heir with a strap-on pacemaker, and Rin grows a backbone (metaphorically) and spontaneously combusts (literally) but not to death, and Ian's mom is a ten-year-old surrounded by creepy rabbit dolls, and people keep appearing in panels without prior notice that they were there.

ETA: I forgot that one of the several abusive parents gets chained up in the basement. That was pretty awesome.

Did anyone understand this? What was going on with Raven and Kaito? Who was the blonde woman with Raven in the incomprehensible concluding flashback?