Canceled due to bad weather

Boy, am I glad our shopping spree got canceled due to bad weather - and I got to sleep in. I stayed up till 5 in the morning, reading manga.

I did plan to go and sleep 2 hours earlier at least, but then I remembered that I know a new place for manga and lo and behold, they had the two other volumes of the thing I was looking for.

So I stayed up till morning, reading it. O.o

It was... whoa. It had nearly all the things I ask for in a manga: it had blood and gore (in moderation), blood-curdling, chilling revelations, tragedy, cynical-sarcastic humor, passion and last but not least no trace of cutesy stuff - be it cute little kids, pets or air headed girls. The sex scenes I could have done without, but whatever, we can't have it all.

So it was amazing. It kept me on my toes. It had me hissing and twitching to cover my eyes at a certain crucial point, and not because of the gore at all. The face of the main character a second before the factory doors are closed and he gets locked in with all the bad guys - a few seconds before he gets pummeled near to death - and he looks out at his lover he just pushed through the door and thus saved... That look in his eyes... Yep, there we go. I just love a good manga with tragedy but without all the soppy angst. Gut wrenching pain? Hell yeah! Soppy feelings and talking it out? *retch* Ditsy girls and cutesy shit? Hell no!

Personally, I'm happy the guy didn't actually get raped as threatened, because that would have been a new ick level. Although come to think of it, Gutts, hero of Berserk also got raped in the first or second chapter of the series. Not really something that gets you interested in a manga, but hell, that series is one of my absolute favourites. All that blood and gore and suffering! And it's so dark, so very dark...! So I guess a rape can move a story forward and explain someone's twisted character, but I really don't like reading about it.

And still... beneath all that blood and gore and the rape and fights and uh... tragedy I guess... it was still kinda cute. And sweet. In a twisted sort of way.

...although now that I've checked it, I knew why the artwork was so familiar. Checking up on the author rewarded me with new info. Mainly that it was one of her works that put me off this certain genre for years. Due to this previous work of hers I was creeped out for at least a week!

Let's just say it was the most disgusting, twisted shit I've ever encountered. It was in some all-boys' school where the food-chain of power was long decided and in walks some guy who wants to know why his brother had been killed here a few years prior. In the first pages we see a hanged woman, then the hanged older brother, a few pages later the "school rules" explained and a power-rape. I stopped reading it after that.

I've never read anything so disgusting and deranged, period. I mean Berserk has some twisted shit, but that... that was so disgusting I was creeped out, disgusted and out of it for at least a week. I still feel the bile rising now when I try to recall it. Disgusting, twisted, fucked-up crap!

Yuck.

So back to the other manga.... It was good. I liked it. But I'm not gonna share. I'm pretty sure it's not really to any of my friends' tastes.