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CLAMP: RG Veda vol. 1-10
As CLAMP manga goes, I thought RG Veda was very good. Up until about volume seven or so, I was reading it with much pleasure. The dark storyline fits my taste, the characters are no-too-stereotypical, and even the hinted yaoi and yuri was bearable. (Note: although I don't mind yaoi or yuri in the slightest, I hate "subtle" hints that only exist to appeal to such-oriented fans. Like in CCS and X.)
There weren't really any characters that I liked, which probably helped, because the position CLAMP manga has in my heart is "manga that is carried by obsessive fans of the characters". There weren't really any characters in RG that made me go, "Ugh, this is to sucking up to the fans," if that makes sense.
But then. But then, volume eight came. And the entire volume was a resume of the previous seven volumes. I kid you not. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happened in it, aside recapping, plus obvious and idiotic foreshadowing. Gah! Give back my enjoyment!
The rest is history. Volume nine and ten consisted of exposition after exposition after exposition. (And oh, some cannibalism, too.) And the end ... I don't even want to think about it. It was just stupid. Far, far stupider than the truth about Ashura-ô, though that was so damn stupid I almost choked on my tea. Just ... trust me.
Final verdict: Good story gone wrong. Which makes me hate it even more than bad story just being bad. Hear me weep.
Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM