Bride of Deimos 4
Posted: March 20, 2007 Filed under: Bride of Deimos Leave a comment »I needed this volume before I could tear through the rest, so you’ll probably see all of these up next, because they are… just fabulous. Amazing. Throw out any other adjectives you want, if it’s positive, this will fit. I’d like to save them, but they are absolutely enthralling, and now that I can read them in order I’m not going to be able to stretch them out.
There are a lot less tender moments between Deimos and Minako this time around. The mechanic of her getting into dangerous situations and him saving her is preserved, but sometimes she would soften up to him or realize that he was right about a situation, but that doesn’t happen here. We do get to see a softer side to Deimos a few times, but I also wish that would have been played up a bit more, too.
The first story puts Minako in the body of Venus back in the ancient time of the Gods. This one was probably the weakest link, because I didn’t quite understand… was it Venus that did this to Minako? Why? Venus would never try to save a little girl… or did she do it for her friend who got killed? Yeah, the first story was kind of weak and not as Deimos-y as I would have liked.
The best story was probably the one where a spirit of a girl who was practicing black magic inhabits the body of Minako to try and figure out a way to get her brother to fall in love with her. Deep things are said about the relationship between Venus and Deimos. They were summoning the Devil, which was the traditional goat-looking devil instead of Deimos, but Deimos apparently came anyway and had some sort of weird hand in what was going on. This story had the second-best touching Deimos ending in the volume.
