Yuletide Fandoms #2: Black Rose Alice
What convinced me to read this manga was 
snarp's synopsis of the first two volumes, so I will shamelessly quote it in full: SETONA MIZUSHIRO: You know what I feel like doing today? I feel like making something shamelessly commercial.
HER MANAGER: Oh, my god, really?! That would be great! Because, you know, most of your stuff is very difficult and mature, and it's kind of a hard sell -
SETONA MIZUSHIRO:Sometimes you just get in the mood, I guess! Okay, so we're gonna have 1) hot vampire guys who 2) run an adorable cafe while 3) competing for the love of 4) an EGL-themed girl named 5) Alice. There will be 6) identical twins who are devoted to each other but have communication problems, 7) a cheerful, doofusy guy who is secretly a twisted schemer, and 8) a tormented amoral alpha male who's a 9) gypsy 10) singer. There will naturally also be 11) some homoeroticism, in part because 12) vampires cannot have straight sex without killing their mates... there's got to be 13) an evil magical tattoo... and damn, I can't figure out how to fit in the genderbending reincarnated alchemists who escaped the Nazis.
HER MANAGER: No, no, that's perfect! That's great! Except, well - these sequences about the staid high school teacher who finds herself falling in love with a student are actually much more compelling than most of the vampire stuff. And the alpha male guy is totally reprehensible. And the sex isn't at all hazy and metaphorical, like you expect in a vampire story - it's very out in the open, and frequently crass and demeaning. Also, all the scenes where spiders pour out of the vampires' mouths are kind of -
SETONA MIZUSHIRO: Oh, that's right! I almost forgot. I'm Setona Mizushiro, bitch.
More on our characters and also spiders pouring out of vampires' mouths
Hi, I'm Dmitri! You may initially find my poverty-stricken background, talent, star-crossed love for a noblewoman, untimely death and unwilling resurrection sympathetic, but don't worry! Within three chapters I will behave so violently, selfishly, and reprehensibly that you will come to think that I truly deserved being turned into an individual walking ecosystem made up of plants, spiders, and cockroaches. I would show you an image of spiders pouring out of my mouth, but it turned out to be too repulsive to clip.
Hi, I'm Azusa! Because of my ill-fated and surprisingly sympathetic love for one of my students, I will agree to inhabit the comatose body of Agnieszka, which Dmitri has been carting around over at least two continents for about a century after causing her death, and choose one of Dmitri's male vampire harem to implant me with vampire seeds/larvae, after which I will die. After my death and reawakening, I'll ask to be called Alice, because Lewis Carroll is practically a Japanese national hero. Also, I will look like this--
--and say things like this:
Hi, I'm Kouya! I was in love with my high school teacher, who died in a car crash after making a deal with a vampire to save my life. I may have disappeared entirely from the storyline, but it is also possible thatthe fact that I was saved by vampire spiders crawling inside my body without my knowledge or consent will turn out to have unforeseen consequences. You never know!
Hi, I'm Leo! I'm a passive-aggressive Nice Guy vampire with gropey hands. With any luck, I will die soon.
Hi, we're the twins, Reiji and Kai! We don't have much personality yet, but we are cheerful and sweet and clearly hiding something. Also, we are excellent cooks.
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snarp's synopsis of the first two volumes, so I will shamelessly quote it in full: SETONA MIZUSHIRO: You know what I feel like doing today? I feel like making something shamelessly commercial.
HER MANAGER: Oh, my god, really?! That would be great! Because, you know, most of your stuff is very difficult and mature, and it's kind of a hard sell -
SETONA MIZUSHIRO:Sometimes you just get in the mood, I guess! Okay, so we're gonna have 1) hot vampire guys who 2) run an adorable cafe while 3) competing for the love of 4) an EGL-themed girl named 5) Alice. There will be 6) identical twins who are devoted to each other but have communication problems, 7) a cheerful, doofusy guy who is secretly a twisted schemer, and 8) a tormented amoral alpha male who's a 9) gypsy 10) singer. There will naturally also be 11) some homoeroticism, in part because 12) vampires cannot have straight sex without killing their mates... there's got to be 13) an evil magical tattoo... and damn, I can't figure out how to fit in the genderbending reincarnated alchemists who escaped the Nazis.
HER MANAGER: No, no, that's perfect! That's great! Except, well - these sequences about the staid high school teacher who finds herself falling in love with a student are actually much more compelling than most of the vampire stuff. And the alpha male guy is totally reprehensible. And the sex isn't at all hazy and metaphorical, like you expect in a vampire story - it's very out in the open, and frequently crass and demeaning. Also, all the scenes where spiders pour out of the vampires' mouths are kind of -
SETONA MIZUSHIRO: Oh, that's right! I almost forgot. I'm Setona Mizushiro, bitch.
More on our characters and also spiders pouring out of vampires' mouths
Hi, I'm Dmitri! You may initially find my poverty-stricken background, talent, star-crossed love for a noblewoman, untimely death and unwilling resurrection sympathetic, but don't worry! Within three chapters I will behave so violently, selfishly, and reprehensibly that you will come to think that I truly deserved being turned into an individual walking ecosystem made up of plants, spiders, and cockroaches. I would show you an image of spiders pouring out of my mouth, but it turned out to be too repulsive to clip.
Hi, I'm Azusa! Because of my ill-fated and surprisingly sympathetic love for one of my students, I will agree to inhabit the comatose body of Agnieszka, which Dmitri has been carting around over at least two continents for about a century after causing her death, and choose one of Dmitri's male vampire harem to implant me with vampire seeds/larvae, after which I will die. After my death and reawakening, I'll ask to be called Alice, because Lewis Carroll is practically a Japanese national hero. Also, I will look like this--
--and say things like this:
Hi, I'm Kouya! I was in love with my high school teacher, who died in a car crash after making a deal with a vampire to save my life. I may have disappeared entirely from the storyline, but it is also possible thatthe fact that I was saved by vampire spiders crawling inside my body without my knowledge or consent will turn out to have unforeseen consequences. You never know!
Hi, I'm Leo! I'm a passive-aggressive Nice Guy vampire with gropey hands. With any luck, I will die soon.
Hi, we're the twins, Reiji and Kai! We don't have much personality yet, but we are cheerful and sweet and clearly hiding something. Also, we are excellent cooks.
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comment(s)