Fairy Cube # 3, by Kaori Yuki

[rachelmanija]

I tachiyomi'd this, so I nothing to refer back to. However, I don't think that would have made much of a difference.

This wins the prize as the single most incoherent manga I have ever read, even beating The World Exists For Me. And volume three may have been the least comprehensible volume of the bunch. Not only could I not follow the story in general, I usually couldn't tell what was happening on any given page. (I read the whole thing out of sheer amazement.)

Upon consulting oyceter, I discovered that part of my confusion was caused by two misapprehensions. I had thought that there was only one long-haired man with an eye-patch. There are two. Also, I thought that Tokage had vanished from the story and some random guy named Isaiah had appeared. What actually happens is that Tokage turns out to be named Isaiah.

There is a dead fairy God on an oxygen mask, a door into Faerie, and people crawling in and out of other people's bodies. Ian gets full-sized wings, or maybe that's an illusion. Faerie and Earth merge, unless that's an illusion too. Oh, and Rin enters a beauty pageant in order to rescue Ian. I forget why she thought that would help.

There's a long side-story that made more sense, but reminded me of the duller and more obvious stand-alone stories in Godchild.

So, does anyone have any idea what happened?

Comments

[oyceter]

Wait, there was a point in time in which Rin was spontaneously combustible?! How did I forget about that?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I think it was in v2? Tokage cursed her so she'd burst into flames if she touched anyone she felt strongly about, so she grabbed him figuring that he'd get burned since she hated him, but he was all, "Bwahaha, it only works with positive emotions and now you and Ian can never touch on noes!"

[oyceter]

Bwahaha! I am still amused that I thought the manga was already insane and cracktastic before knowing about the threat of spontaneous combustion!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Did you read the new comments here? Please help settle the disagreement between Mely and me over whether or not Faerie and Earth collided, whether fairies were released into the world, and/or whether Ian distributed his ability to see the ones that were already there.

[oyceter]

I did, but I sadly can't settle anything because I can't remember! Or, uh, I do vaguely remember, but I have no idea if I am remembering correctly at all.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think it's all true. Faerie and Earth (I almost said Heaven and Hell, but that's the wrong Kaori Yuki manga) were colliding and then Ian (Actually, I think it was more the blond one eyed guy, not to be confused with Raven, the dark-haired one-eyed guy, but let's not nitpick.) stopped it, but faeries escaped to Earth AND more people can see them now.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

But it worked on Raven! I think. At least surprised him.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think it was Tokage's fault, as part of the whole "make Ian suffer" thing. It as made so that, when she got emotional, anything she touched caught fire. Except, you know, her clothes. I remember this because her response to this was to think about how pissed off she was and grab Raven so Ian could escape.