Bride of Deimos 5
Posted: March 21, 2007 Filed under: Bride of Deimos 1 Comment »Ooh… this series teases worse than any other out there. There is absolutely NO MOVEMENT when it comes to Deimos and Minako’s relationship. Minako still hates Deimos, and Deimos still loves Minako. There is quite a bit of conflict stirred up in this volume, where Venus comes back for several stories and Deimos is trying to decide which he would like more in Minako’s body.
The first story was the biggest tease, though. Minako’s friends try to cajole her into telling them who her secret boyfriend is, and when she denies that he exists, the plain girl in their class overhears and buys two tickets to a dance, thinking that Minako is denying the existence of HER boyfriend. Deimos gives the girl her dream guy so that Minako will agree to take Deimos to the dance with her. Deimos is ready and everything, and I thought I was going to get a little date, but, as Deimos says, humans ruin everything. Rats.
There was another really BIZARRE story at the end. I didn’t like it right up until the last page, where we get a basket full of severed human and wolf ears. That made it pretty awesome.
There was another story which didn’t have Minako in it at all, but just featured Venus showing Deimos why no blossoms would bloom on the cherry tree he was sitting on. The story involved the past and a flaming kimono, so you know it was good.
There was another part where Minako’s friends meet Deimos, and Minako was quite ashamed that Deimos would dare do something like that. They didn’t know there was a connection between her and Deimos, which is a shame, and Deimos didn’t give it away. That story was quite good too, it was very buddhist and dealt with reward, punishment, and the cycle of rebirth, of course. There was another chapter that was sort of buddhist in that the girl had given up all hope because she was going to die, and then the bodhisattva save her in the end. Or something along those lines.
Frustrating romance, great horror. Also great romance.
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