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Original Title:	ゴッドチャイルド 1
ISBN:	142150233X (ISBN13: 9781421502335)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Godchild #1
Setting:	United Kingdom

Godchild, Volume 01 (Godchild #1) Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Deep in the heart of 19th century London, a young nobleman named Cain walks the shadowy cobblestone streets of the aristocratic society into which he was born. Forced to become an earl upon the untimely death of his father, Cain assumes the role of head of the Hargreaves, a noble family with a dark past. With Riff, his faithful manservant, and Mary Weather, his 10-year-old half sister, Cain investigates the mysterious crimes that seem to follow him wherever he goes.

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Title	:	Godchild, Volume 01 (Godchild #1)
Author	:	Kaori Yuki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	March 7th 2006 by VIZ Media LLC (first published November 19th 2001)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Manga. Horror. Graphic Novels. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Comics

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The first volume of an eight part manga series that follows on from the same author's Count Cain Saga. It follows the adventures of teenage poisoner and heir to a massive fortune, Cain C. Hargreaves and his faithful butler and sidekick Riff, as they investigate the misdeeds of the mysterious underground organisation Delilah. At least that is the surface premise of the series. Running as a sub-plot throughout the volumes is Cain's own dark back story and that of his disfunctional family. The

I liked the stories, more or less, but the art, while pretty, was a clusterfuck. Far too often I couldn't tell who was saying what. Because it's manga, the pages are tiny, cramped, and entirely black and white. Some manga can get past this and make art where everything is clear, but Godchild isn't one of them. There were way too many panels that were taken up by *entirely* exclaimations like "CRASH!" or "WOMP!" so that Yuki wouldn't have to go to the trouble of drawing the actual events take

'Silly and pretty and angsty and utterly mad,' as my friend Erin would say.Slasher murder mysteries are set to nursery rhymes, a noble collects poisons, dead people are reanimated, a child of rape is whipped into submission and rescued by his butler, a crazy doctor wants to cut his brother's eyeballs out, and an evil organization blows up a lot of buildings. It's mad Victorian mayhem for the most part, but also full of gentle subtlety, particularly in the relationship between Riff and Cain. Rife

The story of Cain is continued from The Cain Saga. If you haven't read The Cain Saga, I recommend that you do since GodChild contains spoilers for the first series and it helps explain a bit more on what's going on. Anyway, Godchild is my absolute favorite manga series. I love Kaori Yukis art, it's so beautiful and her stories are so dark but elegant.

This series of atmospheric Gothic mysteries suffers from two main flaws. The first, the weakness of the Victorian setting, was more annoying to me as it could easily have been improved by even minimal research. I mean really minimal, like using wikipedia to check whether an event had happened before or after the year the action takes place. The characters' speech and behavior was totally inauthentic -- a bunch of kids playing dress-up in frilly gowns while exclaiming "Cool!" and "Totally!" to

So far this is interesting. I'm liking where this is going. Very dark material here, but with some lighthearted jokes and characters. Reminds me a lot of Black Butler. Interested to see where this series goes.

loved the entire series