Fairy Cube # 2, by Kaori Yuki

[rachelmanija]

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?

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I am amazed that all of this really can safely not be considered spoilers. Maybe it's like Clamp and eye loss and at least one age-inappropriate pairing.

I think Rin regrows the backbone, though. I seem to remember she started with one in Vol 1, and then she and Ian both turned kinda generic halfway through.

[oyceter]

... so I've read the entire volumes two or three times now, and I do not remember anything you're posting! I think maybe there was so much cracktasticness that it just slid off my brain?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

How many volumes are there?

[oyceter]

Three total, I think. I was debating finishing it while I was in Taiwan, but given how hard it is to understand in English, I felt reading it in Chinese would be impossible!

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Just for clarification, does "a fairy Halliburton" mean a fairy who rejoices in the name of Halliburton, or a fairy equivalent of the Halliburton corporation (implying a fairy Dick Cheney somewhere in the story)?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

It's sort of like Halliburton masquerading as Greenpeace.