Cain Saga 1: Forgotten Juliet
Posted: April 6, 2007 Filed under: Cain Saga 1 Comment »Though I have everything published in English by Kaori Yuki, I’ve only read one volume of Angel Sanctuary. That one volume put me off so much that I never read anything by her again. You’ll notice I bought it all for some reason, though. Because I’ve been trying to make amends with my 137 volumes of unread manga, I’ll have to get to her stuff sooner or later, and I thought I’d start with the Cain Saga and then wait until volume 5 came out in a couple months and move onto Godchild.
Forgotten Juliet, the first story, put me off quite a bit once again. It was a Romeo and Juliet kinda story with a gothic twist and a few other things… but there were too many characters, and the story just didn’t draw me in. I felt the bile rise in my throat as I thought of reading 12 more volumes of this, let alone slogging through all 20 volumes of Angel Sanctuary, but the rest of the volume actually won me over.
The next story involves Cain as well, but there are less characters… or maybe the characters are just easier to figure out (I actually think that there were as many characters here as the first, I’m not sure what my beef was with Forgotten Juliet). A simple murder-identity crisis kinda story, I figured out the twist fairly early on, but I liked the story a lot all the same. The other stories in the volume didn’t actually include Cain at all, which was weird, but I liked both of them all the same. “Double” was great, and I also really liked the other story in the volume which involved some sort of youth tonic or something.
So yes, I actually enjoyed this volume okay. Let’s see what the rest of the series has to bring.
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