Bride of Deimos 2
Posted: February 26, 2007 Filed under: Bride of Deimos 2 Comments »This is all I have of this one right now, though I’ll probably be tracking down the other volumes RIGHT AWAY.
I would love to see development in the relationship between Minako and Deimos. I know that it is not the nature of the series, as it’s mostly episodic story content, but we get hints every now and again, and I truly do appreciate such hints.
The short stories continue to be quite good. We get one or two that are just Deimos, and these two were probably my favorite in the volume. They’re both actually really, REALLY bizarre and kind of make you wonder where the story comes from (one’s about Deimos giving Thumbelina a different life, and one’s about a queen who’s actually a fire ant at the end), but for the most part, they continue to be ghost stories and stories about human nature, be it good or bad in the end. Deimos is the one who gets a lesson in the very last story, which was nice to see, especially since it was a nice Deimos/Minako moment at the very end. There was no Venus in this volume, which makes me wonder about her role in the story.
I absolutely love this series, and I’m sad it took me so long to find it.
I picked up Volume 2 & 3 in a used bookstore today, and I’ve read Volume 2.
I really liked the stories. Even though sometimes I had no idea what was going on. This might be because I haven’t read volume 1, and this might be because I read this at the end of a very eventful day.
I have to say that Thumbelina is my favorite story so far.
The setup for the series is minimal. Deimos and Venus were both Gods as well as brother and sister, and are being punished separately for falling in love with one another. Deimos was just made into a demon, while Venus was chained up at the bottom of a swamp and left to rot. Initially, Deimos is stalking Minako because he wants her body so that the soul of Venus can inhabit it, but then he falls in love with her. Minako doesn’t ever fall for him, though. There’s not a lot of plot progression, and Deimos’s intentions are never all that clear once you start to see he’s falling in love with Minako, because he changes his mind every once in awhile, and some stories he’s still working to help Venus, and sometimes he works to keep Minako away from Venus, who somehow can set up elaborate traps from the bottom of the swamp. Sometimes Deimos is eliminating people from Minako’s life to try and make her miserable and drive her into his arms, sometimes he saves her from bizarre supernatural plots, and sometimes he’s just doing his thing while weird stuff happens around him and he watches.
I think the one thing I didn’t like about the series was that there was no plot whatsoever, and I think it stays that way. Once the story is set up in the first volume, other than Deimos falling in love with Minako, everything else stays the same. The stories have a wonderful flair for the dramatic, plus they’re just awesome horror stories.
That Thumbelina story was pretty great. It was probably still in my top five stories after I finished. I need to re-read these volumes next time I go home, I’m having problems remembering the details clearly for a few of my other favorites.