Angstorama

[telophase]

This is from a comment I made in a locked post (the Project Blue Rose in-progress filter, WHICH YOU ARE NOT ON! *evillaughter*), but I figured it deserved to see the light of day.

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I took a break and ran by the bookstore, where I ended up getting book 2 of Monster and book 1 of something that promises to be schlocktastic called X-Kai- (yes, the final dash is part of the title).

The thing that tipped me over the edge into getting it was that I flipped trhough it to check out the art, and the toning looked simple in the way I wanted to do PBR.

The cover has a tall, angsty, dark-haired bishounen with a poet's shirt and also with what is either an enormous longhaired-fur collar or dramatic feather boa draped around his neck, or some sort of animal that is trying to eat his head. And flowers in the background, and black floaty feathers. The blurb reads:

By day, Kaito is a florist, but at night, he is a ruthless assassin who is brought orders to kill by a mysterious woman.* But Kaito is an assassin with a conscience--and his life is made difficult when he has to take care of his sick brother...

Part hardboiled romance of solitude, part meditation on the meaning of life and death, the long-awaited manga series is filled with love, blood, murder, and plenty of white lilies.

It gets better: the picture on the first page when you open the cover is the guy, with the shirt ripped up, a tie askew, and a tattoo of a cross with a rose wound around it.

THE ANGST IS DRIPPING OFF THE PAGE.

ETA: rachelmanija? The main character tends to wear glasses:







* This is the point at which I was "Wait! I saw this anime! Only there were four florist-assassins!

Comments

[crispypoohs.livejournal.com]

LOL! I read X-Kai- about a year ago? The story is pretty much every cliche thing you can take from the WieB Kreuz genre. It's pretty boring, but it's pretty, so I can see why TP picked it up.

O.O

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Dude, that totally sounds like Weiss Kreuz.

[maxineofarc.livejournal.com]

I saw that and I could not believe that somebody actually *liked* the concept of "Weiss Kreuz" enough to do it AGAIN. Surely they don't think no one will notice?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Glasses fetish!

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

It's by tohjo asami, isn't it? Her art style changed so much :\

I liked her middle faze, where there's angst, smex, and twisting bodies. Now, there's just impossibly huge thingies waving around...

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

There are certain concepts that only work the first time, and Weiss is one of them. XP

[marith.livejournal.com]

My brother presented me with a copy of X-Kai last week, saying he figured it was exactly my sort of thing. I will never live down the embarrassment of once being a Weiss Kreuz fan, will I?

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Dear Lord. That florist-by-day-assassin-by-night theme is really getting popular, isn't it.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I picked this up the other day, looked it over and thought, "Well, I've never actually seen Weiss Kruz. But that's because everyone told me it was bad."

So instead, I bought the shoujo manga about cutting. ^_^

[snarp]

Apropos of nothing, googling "* by day, * by night" is kind of disappointing. Too many people use it on their blog profiles, and most of them are singers by night. Cannot people sing at decent hours? I ask you.

[seajules]

But if there's only one of them, who's going to sex him up watch his back?

So what we're faced with here is that florist assassins might have actually been some kind of minor movement. That's just.... I'm going back to my brand new goth crack now.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

I read it a long time ago.

The part with the cat made me go *;-;*

but I like the whole thing with Renge(?), or whatevet the little kids name is.

And the flower in the ear bit >_<

Also it is very pretty. Not that much of a developed story, but I still want to get Vol.2 once I get-up to the shopping mall again (I live in a rural community of less than 1500 people).