fairy cube
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毫無意義的插話：最近偶然發現……説不定我很有寫BL的天分…………OTZ
A review of Fairy Cube in a Chinese magazine had pointed to the habitual bloodiness of Yuki-sensei's manga, and said, "Once we were able to laugh cynically with her at the naive world, but now we laugh at her...Yuki Kaori hasn't changed, so it means we have."
But I think the reviewer missed the entire charm of Fairy Cube - that she has changed.
If Hasumi Ian was a character in another mangaka's work, I would not have gotten past the first few pages. But he belongs to Yuki-sensei - the bright, innocuous smile that is norm in any other manga except hers. Recalling the hounded Kaine, the cursed Alexiel/Setsuna, the broken Cain, amongst the many angst-ridden main characters she's written...Ian's unaffected smile is dazzling.
Fairy Cube itself is not a brilliant work, but it might have been had she wanted to give it the same attention that Angel Sanctuary had gotten. It isn't even original by her standards - the filching of Celtic folklore is similar to her unrelenting bastardisation of Christian angels; Ian's abuse at the hands of his father is similar to Cain's past; and the hate-filled fighting (and its ultimate resolution) between the two brothers recalls Gravel Kingdom.
But what's different is that instead of "the cynical laughing at the innocent world", the conclusion of the story is the exact opposite. Tokage's cynicism costed him the happiness of his brother and the lives of his loving parents. If anything, Fairy Cube is ultimately anti-cynic. The world is saved through love. Tokage, Ian and Rin are all saved by the sacrifices made by those who love them. The underlying message is - rather than Count Cain and Angel Sanctuary's "don't trust anyone, not even God" - "if only you had trusted those who love you".
And finally, we turn to Yuki Kaori because, amongst the pink and quixotic fluff of shoujo manga, she is of the few who paint the world in unforgiving shades of blood and vengeance and desecrated love.
And because, goddamnit, she finishes her what she starts *coughCLAMPcough*
毫無意義的插話：最近偶然發現……説不定我很有寫BL的天分…………OTZ
A review of Fairy Cube in a Chinese magazine had pointed to the habitual bloodiness of Yuki-sensei's manga, and said, "Once we were able to laugh cynically with her at the naive world, but now we laugh at her...Yuki Kaori hasn't changed, so it means we have."
But I think the reviewer missed the entire charm of Fairy Cube - that she has changed.
If Hasumi Ian was a character in another mangaka's work, I would not have gotten past the first few pages. But he belongs to Yuki-sensei - the bright, innocuous smile that is norm in any other manga except hers. Recalling the hounded Kaine, the cursed Alexiel/Setsuna, the broken Cain, amongst the many angst-ridden main characters she's written...Ian's unaffected smile is dazzling.
Fairy Cube itself is not a brilliant work, but it might have been had she wanted to give it the same attention that Angel Sanctuary had gotten. It isn't even original by her standards - the filching of Celtic folklore is similar to her unrelenting bastardisation of Christian angels; Ian's abuse at the hands of his father is similar to Cain's past; and the hate-filled fighting (and its ultimate resolution) between the two brothers recalls Gravel Kingdom.
But what's different is that instead of "the cynical laughing at the innocent world", the conclusion of the story is the exact opposite. Tokage's cynicism costed him the happiness of his brother and the lives of his loving parents. If anything, Fairy Cube is ultimately anti-cynic. The world is saved through love. Tokage, Ian and Rin are all saved by the sacrifices made by those who love them. The underlying message is - rather than Count Cain and Angel Sanctuary's "don't trust anyone, not even God" - "if only you had trusted those who love you".
And finally, we turn to Yuki Kaori because, amongst the pink and quixotic fluff of shoujo manga, she is of the few who paint the world in unforgiving shades of blood and vengeance and desecrated love.
And because, goddamnit, she finishes her what she starts *coughCLAMPcough*
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Date: 2006-09-02 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 01:52 pm (UTC)樓上的, if you don't know, it's probably in your best interest to stay in the dark....endless pit, BL is（噗）
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:45 pm (UTC)...Ignorance is bliss~
Picture scenario:
Guy 1 and Guy 2 are good friends in a story I'm writing.
I ask Carmen, who reads it, the poor girl, "If Guy 1 got a girlfriend, what kind of girl would suit him?"
Carmen gives me a "do you even have to ask" look and says, "Guy 2?"
OTZ Carmen...
不是唯一的一次 ||||OTZ 好像每一個故事都有這種傾向……
如漫友道（爆）：“同人女最厲害之處就是在沒有BL的地方找出許許多多的BL來。” 真理是也……
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:55 pm (UTC)それが同人女いちばん上手だね！