Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Laughing Vampire

Manga : Warau Kyuuketsuki.
By Suehiro Maruo



I spent 2 hours reading this tonight. oh man. Beautiful.
Maybe this one from Suehiro Maruo is not that gore so I can accept.
Or maybe the gore-ness are accompanied by loads of beautiful and romantic scenes and depictions made
me accept this one.
The more I read, the more I like his artstyle.
That teenager is so handsome, URGH!!!!

It's a different kind of vampire story, and when the main storyline flows, there will be 1-2 stories
of different characters added in, a bit confusing at the beginning but it flows just right after a while.

It's nothing to do with cross, or Christianity. Not restricted to japanese vampires only, but cross cultural.
Plain "vampire". Beautiful, romantic artstyle.
Loads of details will drive you read slower.
Anyway, I felt sad in this manga. There's still things that related to humanity as well.
The beginning is really sad, and almost the end too.
First character introduced in this manga, had a sad life, a woman who's born with an appearance unlike
normal people got boycott, abused, killed and hanged on a tree.
Then she got buried, but she's not dead, instead she had become a human, or shouldn't be called as human,
who has an urge to drink blood. So, kill, drink blood.
And if she let another person drink her blood, the person will become like her, same species.

Then the story goes on.
Interesting perspective. I like this one.
At first you'll be like no way this is so weird, yuck, but slowly,
the manga will make you blend into them and start to get use of their lifestyle.
You'll feel sad for them, feel angry.
URGH FEELS!!!!

and yeah, surprisingly this manga got not much to do with sex in my opinion, although
there's some weird fetish going on. But still, compare to other quick search of his manga,
this is level 10 only out of 50.




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