Soryo Fuyumi - Eternal Sabbath, vol. 01-02 (Eng. trans.)
Er, more apologies for spamming. Still am not caught up....
I started reading Soryo because of her insanely addictive, somewhat Gothic, very angsty shoujo manga Mars. I tried her older works as well, but her art style really matured in Mars, and the plots of the older ones are somewhat Gothic and very angsty, but not nearly as interesting.
Thankfully, ES has the best of both worlds, gorgeous art and a nifty storyline (at least so far).
Akiba Ryousuke is actually an escapee from a lab, a genetically modified human who can read and manipulate minds. For some reason, he's decided to masquerade as a normal high school student.
Kujyou Mine is a scientist who keeps messing up omiai (sort of like blind dates to arrange marriages) because she has absolutely zero social skills and talks about the mating rituals of lions to her terrified potential-date.
They meet. They do not fight crime.
I am not quite sure where Soryo is going to go with the plot; there are more lab escapees in volume 2, and I suspect said lab escapee is the beginning of the first major plot arc.
I'm enjoying the manga so far because Ryousuke is almost entirely emotionless; when he does show emotion, he often seems psychotic and amoral. Mine's not that much better, particularly when it comes to her poor social skills. I'm very much looking forward to how these two social outcasts end up relating to each other (or not), and I like that it's not happy, fuzzy and romanticized.
I anticipate some more rather Gothic storylines, though they may only feel Gothic to me because of Mars.
I started reading Soryo because of her insanely addictive, somewhat Gothic, very angsty shoujo manga Mars. I tried her older works as well, but her art style really matured in Mars, and the plots of the older ones are somewhat Gothic and very angsty, but not nearly as interesting.
Thankfully, ES has the best of both worlds, gorgeous art and a nifty storyline (at least so far).
Akiba Ryousuke is actually an escapee from a lab, a genetically modified human who can read and manipulate minds. For some reason, he's decided to masquerade as a normal high school student.
Kujyou Mine is a scientist who keeps messing up omiai (sort of like blind dates to arrange marriages) because she has absolutely zero social skills and talks about the mating rituals of lions to her terrified potential-date.
They meet. They do not fight crime.
I am not quite sure where Soryo is going to go with the plot; there are more lab escapees in volume 2, and I suspect said lab escapee is the beginning of the first major plot arc.
I'm enjoying the manga so far because Ryousuke is almost entirely emotionless; when he does show emotion, he often seems psychotic and amoral. Mine's not that much better, particularly when it comes to her poor social skills. I'm very much looking forward to how these two social outcasts end up relating to each other (or not), and I like that it's not happy, fuzzy and romanticized.
I anticipate some more rather Gothic storylines, though they may only feel Gothic to me because of Mars.