Yuki Kaori - The Cain Saga, vol. 04 (Eng. trans.)
Why I Love Yuki Kaori #34598:
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I just spent about half an hour flipping through the volume again to try to pick out my very favoritest moment, except I really can't. There is too much!
Thankfully, coffeeandink has already quoted my favorite part from Yuki's asides.
So -- Why I Love Yuki Kaori #34598-34601:
As Yuki wanted to name Riff after Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riff's full name is "Riffael Raffit." She also hurriedly assures the readers in an aside that no, no, Cain and Riff aren't embracing! Cain's just smelling Riff's shirt! And the priceless Disraeli-talking-to-organs aside linked to above.
And I have only just gotten to the asides!
Then there is Viz's absolute horrible translation combined with Jizabel Disraeli's insanity, which results in:
When a silver knife slits [Cain's] pale, slim limbs... it will be like bright red pomegranates cut wide open! His blood vessels will be like the branches of a tree, still warm and pulsing. His organs and membrances shining and gasping like a gold fish out of water.
To be honest, despite Yuki Kaori's protests, I think Disraeli really does name his organs -- the organs that he collects in jars, not his own personal organs. Though maybe he names those too.
Minor spoilers
Then there is the fact that this volume includes: an angsty past involving multiple suicide attempts; a grown man with the mind of a child locked in the basement; a creepy Mr. Punch puppet; an emotionless fortune-teller; snarls of wiring and tubes for strange, definitely-non-Victorian scientific experiements that look more like cyberpunk; copy-cat Jack-the-Ripper murders; aforementioned shirt sniffing; aforementioned organs in jars (c'mon Jizabel Disraeli! You are disappointing me! Where is your head in a jar that you want to sew back onto an immortal body to bring back to life*??); the return of the boy who is actually hundreds of years old but can never grow up and actually belongs to a circus; and, of course, numerous dead bodies.
All in one volume!
And I haven't even touched all the Riff/Cain moments, all the creepy Jizabel moments (you only have highlights), or the cross-dressing fiancee!
SO MUCH LOVE.
* I still cannot believe that this is a plot point in not just one, but two manga series. At least, that I know of...
....
I just spent about half an hour flipping through the volume again to try to pick out my very favoritest moment, except I really can't. There is too much!
Thankfully, coffeeandink has already quoted my favorite part from Yuki's asides.
So -- Why I Love Yuki Kaori #34598-34601:
As Yuki wanted to name Riff after Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riff's full name is "Riffael Raffit." She also hurriedly assures the readers in an aside that no, no, Cain and Riff aren't embracing! Cain's just smelling Riff's shirt! And the priceless Disraeli-talking-to-organs aside linked to above.
And I have only just gotten to the asides!
Then there is Viz's absolute horrible translation combined with Jizabel Disraeli's insanity, which results in:
When a silver knife slits [Cain's] pale, slim limbs... it will be like bright red pomegranates cut wide open! His blood vessels will be like the branches of a tree, still warm and pulsing. His organs and membrances shining and gasping like a gold fish out of water.
To be honest, despite Yuki Kaori's protests, I think Disraeli really does name his organs -- the organs that he collects in jars, not his own personal organs. Though maybe he names those too.
Minor spoilers
Then there is the fact that this volume includes: an angsty past involving multiple suicide attempts; a grown man with the mind of a child locked in the basement; a creepy Mr. Punch puppet; an emotionless fortune-teller; snarls of wiring and tubes for strange, definitely-non-Victorian scientific experiements that look more like cyberpunk; copy-cat Jack-the-Ripper murders; aforementioned shirt sniffing; aforementioned organs in jars (c'mon Jizabel Disraeli! You are disappointing me! Where is your head in a jar that you want to sew back onto an immortal body to bring back to life*??); the return of the boy who is actually hundreds of years old but can never grow up and actually belongs to a circus; and, of course, numerous dead bodies.
All in one volume!
And I haven't even touched all the Riff/Cain moments, all the creepy Jizabel moments (you only have highlights), or the cross-dressing fiancee!
SO MUCH LOVE.
* I still cannot believe that this is a plot point in not just one, but two manga series. At least, that I know of...