Bride of Deimos 1
Posted: February 25, 2007 Filed under: Bride of Deimos 6 Comments »I’ve come to find that Comics One had extremely poor marketing skills. Apparently they had a Ryoichi Ikegami series, the Junji Ito Horror Comics Collection, and this, which is a 70s shoujo horror manga classic from the pages of Princess, which I have recently realized is My Magazine. How did I only know about one or two of their titles? And how was it that it took me so long to find out about Bride of Deimos?
I really wound up liking this one, though it had a strange feel to it throughout. It’s an anthology of horror stories all revolving around the main character, Minako, and the demon Deimos and his various ways of intruding (or sometimes not intruding) into her life. Deimos swears Minako is his bride at the beginning, Minako doesn’t like that… and that’s all the plot you get for awhile. Eventually, Deimos gets a backstory where it’s explained that originally he had meant to use Minako as a vessel for his sister’s soul, his sister also being his lover and chained up at the bottom of a bog and rotting. He eventually fell in love with Minako for who she was, and the sister, Venus, becomes a kind of antagonist.
The stories in this volume are often rooted in Japanese mythology or history (well, maybe it’s just two of them), but they’re often supernatural, and sometimes deal with circumstance and human emotion. I can sorta see how it could be construed as boring by some, as it’s older and doesn’t have a lot of action, but this is some fine girly horror, and I’ll probably be seeking out the rest of this oop series soon. A shame it won’t continue to the end.
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I concur about the marketing problem … 70s shoujo manga in English and I never heard of it (and I thought I had read almost all 70s shoujo manga published in English).
This series is quite good, it’s worth tracking down. I actually liked it so much that I bought the entire series in Japanese once I went through the English volumes. It was unfinished in Japan, but a “final chapter” started running a year or so ago, done by the original creators and everything. It’s not nearly as good, and as far as I can tell, seems to have little to do with the original main character.
You know, I think ComicsOne might have had one or two other classic-looking series, too. I remember reading about them in the Manga Complete Guide, but I think they’re web-only. The vintage of the two I’m thinking of right now might be 80s. Neither one sounded like it was a fantastic read or anything, but I remember digging them up and at least liking the art.
This brings out the memories. Bride of Deimos was really a spectacular Manga. I love the story, the plot, the characters and everything in it.
Yeah, it’s a shame it never finished up here. I liked it so much I bought the rest in Japanese.
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