God Child

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I only recommend if for those sick people who can stomach the convulted, twisted, vile nature of humanity and still think its one helluva story.

Well then, hello you sick people, this is your manga.

Story:
Basically Godchild (first started in the Cain Saga) is the story of the Earl Cain, a posion collection, who is a noble of the prestigious English family, and finds himself investigating strings of murders involving serious psychologically distrubed people (seriously, they are MESSED UP) in the current decaying society which is London. As the story progresses he begins to find a pattern in these cases all connected to a ... organization with dark intentions known as Delilah, who dabbles in the occult. Not only that but he finds out that the organization is run by a person from his past whom he thought was dead...

Art:
Gourgeous, gourgeous, gorgeous. You can tell just by looking at each page, that everything, even just a characters head must've taken forever. Kaori Yuki draws absolutly amazing clothing and the detail she and her assistants take is just amazing, and she draws BACKGROUNDS (yes, its true) which tend to be very beautiful in their arcitecture and even in everyday around-the-house items are drawn very well.

Character: Flat is NOT at all what you'd call Kaori Yuki's characters. Good and evil alike they all each have their goals and intentions. Plus, its really easy to get drawn in by the series' main character, Cain who has a cool, dignified allure, that even if he generally seems to wave off others, he is kickin' sweet. For some reason he reminds me of L of Death Note, cool and calculating.

Enjoyment: Heck, I love it.

Overall: If you cannot handle baby-killers, human experiments, taboo relationships, and crazy women who sew people into dolls. Well how about Fruits Basket instead? But really, the dark tone of manga is really captivating, and it gets the reader really involved in the story, if you are a lover of the supernatural, psychological, and the mysterious. Reaad

I absolutely love this series (and of course, The Cain Saga). I love Kaori Yuki's artwork, and the relationships she constructs between characters is always so involved, complex, and at time twisted. But..it always works out because the feelings of the characters are real. Very very real.

Plus, who doesn't like the feel and look of Victorian London? Who hasn't wondered about the perversive nature of fairy tales and Mother Goose tales? And the chapter titles were so appropriate for the setting of the manga, I can tell Kaori-sama put a lot of research in this.

The ... ending was heartbreaking and perfect at the same time. I remember reading in her side notes that a different ending was thought of, but I don't think anything could have been better than what was published. I'm felt it not only emotionally, but physically too.

This is truly a masterpiece, and a must read for anyone regardless of their main interests of genre.

I read this back-to-back with Cain Saga. While Cain Saga's storylines were at times hard to follow, I preferred the storytelling there. While it was sometimes melodramatic, the drama ebbed and flowed better.

In God Child, the story is easier to follow, but I found that the tension didn't rise enough to form proper "peaks" to keep me invested. Towards the last volumes, I just wanted to get done with it.

The story felt overall flat, or too mellow. The only point of excitement happened when Riff met with the doctor, but it mellowed down again fast. I was especially disappointed in the villain(s). ... They all seemed to exist only to act as a task/target for Cain, without having much (or any) character growth or proper motives for what they were doing. I enjoyed the side characters' shenanigans better. The ending was ok, though the "final boss" was a disappointment.

The artwork in God Child is noticeably better than in Cain Saga, most likely due to Yuki having more drawing experience. I still had some difficulty recognizing returning characters in the later volumes though.

I have mixed feelings about this one. While this has better art and is more cohesive compared to Cain Saga, the storytelling feels boring. It might be that time hasn't been kind to this manga.