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Ciel / 씨엘 #7
Ciel Band 7
Sommerferien – Während Yvien und Lariatte ein paar sorglose Tage bei Laris Familie verbringen, herrscht in Newton Krisenstimmung hoch zehn! Denn eine Horde garstiger Monster terrorisiert die malerische Metropole Newton und auch Januarys Verwandte verhalten sich bei seiner Heimkehr nicht viel besser. Zum Glück kommen Yvien und Lariatte überraschend zu Besuch, doch als sich Yvien als Januarys Verlobte ausgibt, nehmen die Missverständnisse ihren Lauf!
176 pages, Broschiert
First published August 30, 2007
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February 4, 2012
With this volume we finally reach the scene that started the series with a bang, Lariatte and Yvien defeating the huge starfish shaped monster. What is getting ever more mysterious are the hints about various things in the past which intercut the current storyline.
Usually the covers of the books have featured central players in this book. If you're careful to check all the first page illustrations, you see that the woman who is on the cover must be the lady working for the King and the administrator of the mages who hates Euge Eyne so desperately that she's been hunting for him for the last 19 years or so. And if I look at her dress on the cover, and then at the narration scene of this dress being thrown into a lake, I get the feeling she might be the person who was supposed to be Euge's familiar, maybe even bride - and that the narration for that picture isn't Yvien's but Euge's...
I haven't got confirmation for all of this yet, but a huge part of the fun is surmising by now, wondering where the manwhaga will go next. This volume was supposed to focus on the importance of Euge in general (as the Rhim-sensei hinted in the last book). Krohiten finds confirmation that he is alive right at the start - but then we get a cut into the school holidays (and I was stumped of why now). The plot with Euge is only picked up again in the next volume.
January has to face his relations and especially his mad evil uncle Nell, who blames his evilness on his wife - we find out that she died in a fire when January was young: because she had married into the family and finally realised that by supporting her evil but weak husband she had become evil herself. So she saved January but burned to death (this is NOT a series for the weak of stomach, though it is not horror).
Yvien and Lariatte have a lovely time at Lariatte's family estate - which is the most obviously Asian - the rest of the books being much inspired by European culture (French and Italian first and foremost I'd say) in design. This is where it becomes obvious that the translators for the series sometimes are a bit shoddy in their choice of words (Lariatte's tutor lady, the current lover of her father, is pregnant - the German translation says that "Lariatte is going to carry the child of her brother" which is total idiocy). If I hadn't read up to this volume in scanlation I'd be goggling.
Rhim-sensei keeps trying to make subtle hints of Krohiten and Yvien developing feelings for each other, but it only works sometimes, even as the cinematic cuts make clear what the reader is supposed to think. I believe her strengths are the art and the convoluted plot and the relationships of friendship and questions about who is deserving of survival or not and how far would you go for this anyway...
I loved Daughter joining January and being confronted with the Lightspheres and one young member of the house who sees herself as a prospective bride for January but comes across more as spoiled than evil - which is a nice change, truly. When Yvien and Lariatte show up on their way back to Lowood School, Yvien can't keep her mouth shut and tells everyone she's January's fiancee - setting off a huge row with Lariatte because of this (she thought it was a good joke, Lariatte feels totally left out of developments).
Yvien basically forces a reconcilement by using her field of power and trusting to Lariatte come and save her from it.
We finally get the reveal of what the actual role of that intrepid journalist is who showed up in the first volume and others since as comic relief and it's a real surprise. The next book will bring him, Krohiten and Euge all to the same place.
Usually the covers of the books have featured central players in this book. If you're careful to check all the first page illustrations, you see that the woman who is on the cover must be the lady working for the King and the administrator of the mages who hates Euge Eyne so desperately that she's been hunting for him for the last 19 years or so. And if I look at her dress on the cover, and then at the narration scene of this dress being thrown into a lake, I get the feeling she might be the person who was supposed to be Euge's familiar, maybe even bride - and that the narration for that picture isn't Yvien's but Euge's...
I haven't got confirmation for all of this yet, but a huge part of the fun is surmising by now, wondering where the manwhaga will go next. This volume was supposed to focus on the importance of Euge in general (as the Rhim-sensei hinted in the last book). Krohiten finds confirmation that he is alive right at the start - but then we get a cut into the school holidays (and I was stumped of why now). The plot with Euge is only picked up again in the next volume.
January has to face his relations and especially his mad evil uncle Nell, who blames his evilness on his wife - we find out that she died in a fire when January was young: because she had married into the family and finally realised that by supporting her evil but weak husband she had become evil herself. So she saved January but burned to death (this is NOT a series for the weak of stomach, though it is not horror).
Yvien and Lariatte have a lovely time at Lariatte's family estate - which is the most obviously Asian - the rest of the books being much inspired by European culture (French and Italian first and foremost I'd say) in design. This is where it becomes obvious that the translators for the series sometimes are a bit shoddy in their choice of words (Lariatte's tutor lady, the current lover of her father, is pregnant - the German translation says that "Lariatte is going to carry the child of her brother" which is total idiocy). If I hadn't read up to this volume in scanlation I'd be goggling.
Rhim-sensei keeps trying to make subtle hints of Krohiten and Yvien developing feelings for each other, but it only works sometimes, even as the cinematic cuts make clear what the reader is supposed to think. I believe her strengths are the art and the convoluted plot and the relationships of friendship and questions about who is deserving of survival or not and how far would you go for this anyway...
I loved Daughter joining January and being confronted with the Lightspheres and one young member of the house who sees herself as a prospective bride for January but comes across more as spoiled than evil - which is a nice change, truly. When Yvien and Lariatte show up on their way back to Lowood School, Yvien can't keep her mouth shut and tells everyone she's January's fiancee - setting off a huge row with Lariatte because of this (she thought it was a good joke, Lariatte feels totally left out of developments).
Yvien basically forces a reconcilement by using her field of power and trusting to Lariatte come and save her from it.
We finally get the reveal of what the actual role of that intrepid journalist is who showed up in the first volume and others since as comic relief and it's a real surprise. The next book will bring him, Krohiten and Euge all to the same place.
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