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rachelmanija

Angel Sanctuary volumes 12-14

Jan 28, 2008 11:37

I finished this series a while ago, but was unable to write it up because every time I attempted a thoughtful, coherent analysis, the content I was trying to analyze was so deliciously demented, so carefully foreshadowed yet totally insane, that my head exploded ( Read more... )

body parts: disembodied heads, manga: angel sanctuary, genre: zombies, genre: fetuses are creepy, body parts: wounded wings, apocalypse: war in heaven, unexpected giant flying things

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Recurring themes & tropes coffeeandink January 28 2008, 20:44:55 UTC

-Cannibalism, particularly parent/child cannibalism and the willing sacrifice of the food/victim out of love (see also: Katan and Rosiel, who are frequently paralleled to Raziel and Zaphikel; Adam Kadamon); in more general terms, love defined in terms of self-sacrifice and the question of appropriate parental/filial love

-Cloning, pregnancy, and reproduction (EVERYWHERE)

-Sex as defiling/foul/filthy/forbidden, particularly for women, whether they're willing or not; also an act of defiance against Heaven (Alexiel, Lucifer, Sara/Setsuna)

-wings getting cut off

-Not a recurrance, really, but I adore that finally the light-haired heroine willing to sacrifice everything for true love realizes that this doesn't actually justify screwing over everyone else in the entire world.

Re: Recurring themes & tropes rachelmanija January 28 2008, 20:50:07 UTC

Also, zombies. Perhaps we should rec this to Justine.

Re: Recurring themes & tropes coffeeandink January 28 2008, 20:56:14 UTC

I thought you got Justine to try it with your last post?

Re: Recurring themes & tropes rachelmanija January 28 2008, 20:57:53 UTC

Oh, maybe! I have a terrible memory.

PS. WA 4 is not only really interesting, but it has exquisite color art. And the preview of the next volume had me jumping for joy.

Re: Recurring themes & tropes coffeeandink January 28 2008, 20:58:18 UTC

TEASE!

Re: Recurring themes & tropes oyceter January 28 2008, 23:53:33 UTC

I echo Mely: TEASE!

Re: Recurring themes & tropes rachelmanija January 29 2008, 00:41:26 UTC

There are grapes.

Re: Recurring themes & tropes oyceter January 29 2008, 00:43:47 UTC

HORRIBLE TEASE!

Re: Recurring themes & tropes loligo January 28 2008, 21:05:19 UTC

The incredible anxiety surrounding reproduction in this series just cracks me up. When Uriel and the others discover Adam Kadamon and the angel embryos, he's all "OMG, we have all been committing the ultimate sin of eating our mother!!" and I'm thinking, "Tautology much? If you *have* a mother, then at some point you subsisted off of her bodily substance, or else she wouldn't *be* your mother."

OMG WE'RE ALL DAMNED!

Re: Recurring themes & tropes rachelmanija January 28 2008, 21:07:35 UTC

...I never even thought of that!

Apparently Kaori Yuki has children. I sometimes wonder if AS was conceived, as it were, while she was pregnant.

Re: Recurring themes & tropes coffeeandink January 28 2008, 21:10:00 UTC

Something I read made me think it was a pun in Japanese -- that, as in English, there's a slang connection between eating and sex that makes the whole thing read as incest as well as cannibalism. Which, also, recurring trope.

But anyway, it was one reason why I tried to link sex and food in "The Language of Angels" & recent unofficial sequel.

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