Angel Sanctuary volumes 15-17

[rachelmanija]

This is the sort of story where one can quite honestly write, "I forgot to mention that Heaven and Hell collided some volumes back

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[oyceter]

HEE! OMG, the image of Sandalphon as that many-winged thing with a bazillion red eyeballs still creeps me out. Also! You forgot to mention that volume 17 ends with Sandalphon in the form of a giant zombie angel eyeball hovering over everything menacingly, as giant zombie angel eyeballs do! And that Setsuna gets his eye and wing back!

I love Barbiel so much!

Also, I can't believe I forgot about the eyeball poison and biting and whatnot!

I love this series so much! So much!

[chomiji]

(Re "many-winged thing with a bazillion red eyeballs" .... sounds like a Kyriotate from the RPG "In Nomine," which would be the natural choice of game system if someone were demented enough to want to roleplay this thing ... I am such a gamer geek.)

[coffeeandink]

Barbiel is so awesome. Why does she have to be in love with that lameass Raphael? It's like some twisted and boring version of Hawkeye/Mustang or Mazikeen/Lucifer.

Rosiel's crystal is the crystal that was in the hilt of Nanatsusaya and held Lucifer's soul when he was Alexiel's demon sword. (I love typing that.)

Notable tropes: ZOMBIES! Pregnancy is freaky! Fetuses are freakier! Kira/Lucifer/whatever is really hot! Twins! Incest is freedom!

[oyceter]

Also: Forbidden love is the best way of expressing freedom! Unless, of course, it is the forbidden love of a zombie angel eyeball fetus thing for its mother?

Then again, I am pretty sure Sandalphon does not love anything or anyone.

Oh! And Sandalphon tricks Sara into thinking he's Setsuna by using the toy ring!

And! Virginal conception is the most monstrous, unholy thing ever, which of course fits nicely into Yuki Kaori's desire to overturn everything about Heaven and Hell. One wonders if Sara's conception was equivalent to the Immaculate Conception or something.

[coffeeandink]

I don't think it counts if it's your forcibly inseminated and unwilling host mother.

[oyceter]

Wait, was Sara's conception forced as well? I thought the immaculate conception was the conception of Mary as free of original sin?

Bwa ha ha ha ha!

[gaudior]

Unsurprisingly, she cradles someone’s decapitated head, I forget whose, and then jumps out a window.

I love you.

And I'm kinda fond of this insane manga.

That is all.