kuroshitsuji anime confirmed!

With the number of fujoshi on my F-list I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned Kuroshitsuji, a manga suspiciously derivative of Count Cain's pseudo-shounen-ai-set-in-unrealistic-Victorian-era, with lots of gorgeoussss drooool and wangst. Well, I haven't gotten that far yet, but I'm sure there'll be wangst, if it anywhere resembles Count Cain

Anyway, it's been slated for anime adaptation! Keep an eye out, all ye 耽美腐女, you know who you are! =P



Yesterday I dug out the only volume of Count Cain I had, for want of nothing better to read (I'm sure there's some syntax problem in this sentence but my brain has taken an early break), and I now see what one reviewer meant when he said Yuki Kaori has let her staffers take over a lot of the drawings.

Her art in Count Cain (volume 9) is ironically sooooooo much better than Fairy Cube...........

Crisp clean lines, her trademark deep hooded eyes and chiselled cheeks...aiiie...when I looked at Fairy Cube a while ago I was suddenly overwhelmed by dubiousness that I had admired her art for so long.

But after re-reading Count Cain.........no wonder I admired her art *_______*

I really want Bloodhound damn it!! Why does Kino refuse to stock it ToT

Ahahaha...I realised I never said what my main art influences were. Yoshizumi Wataru (Mintna Bokura, Marmalade Boy, Ultramaniac, etc) was the first artist I really tried to emulate. I don't really like her style any more, but I guess she was a good starting point for some good standard shoujo character designs. After that it was most prominently Yuki Kaori (Angel Sanctuary, Count Cain, Fairy Cube), because I really liked the way she drew cheekbones XD

I got the way I drew profiles (side of the face) from Yukiru Sugisaki (D.N.Angel), and add in a dash of CLAMP (too much stuff) and Arina Tanemura (Full Moon wo Sagashite) for eyes (I know...the two have completely different styles for eyes...but nevertheless) and....voila!

Though I really like Vampire Knight art, I've actually never tried to emulate it (nor do I think I ever will). And I practically have no shounen influences! How sad! ...Not my fault they all look ugly (except Death Note and Hikaru no Go, but that's beyond my level XD)

I do not like Fruits Basket art =___= Especially towards the end. Which meant I disliked everything about Furuba towards the end except Yuki's newly acquired evilness...muahahaha!

Once upon a time, I might have liked Kyou more before it became obvious how biased the mangaka was towards him.

shaku!!!

OKAY. Blame me for not having read volume 13 of Count Cain in its entirety (I don't like seeing my favourite character die, okay?) I am completely nonplussed by her afterword, which contained this (copied from scanlations)

...the readers wanted the two protagonists to have a happy ending...So I had a difficult time in deciding whether I should really have an ending like this. Some of the fans wrote to me and said that they wanted an unhappy ending but it makes sense that most people would want a happy ending. I'm that way too. But I thought there should be a correct ending for Cain...so I knew I had to do it. Of course this is not a completely hopeless ending and I think it could also be considered happy in some ways. Like Cleador mentions, it is a situation where it's difficult to tell whether he's alive or dead...That's why there's no evidence of Cain suffering a fatal wound and there's also no sign of blood.

W00t! So I can pretend he didn't die? XD

Maah, people put Count Cain under shounen-ai, but I've always thought - and even the work itself says - that the two transcends beyond dependency, beyond master and servant, beyond even love. (Yeah, I'm not too sure how that last bit works, but huh.)

If Cain had really lived and been set to wander the Earth without Riff, he'd be exactly like the biblical Cain, minus the fratricide but plus a patricide =D

...But who would tie his shoe laces, with Riff gone? Awww LOL.