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cienna asked for Blood and Ishuca.
I'm hesitant to write about these two becauseperseid has already done it so, so much more articulately with her excellent posts on the series. (Go read them. NOW.)
What I love the most about these two is the development. And we owe it all to the brilliance of Sugiura Shiho (my future wife!), because Blood-and-Ishuca-the-characters could have failed so miserably, so easily.
To tell the truth, I thought the first chapter of Koori was cute as a one-off, and that it was too bad it didn't stay that way for oh, the first five or so tankoubon. The story was so pat! So predictable! The motivations and reactions so unbelievable (in a story about demons and magic, but whatever. I want realistic psychology from my characters, even when they exist in fantastic settings).
And I just didn't think there was much in the way of realistic psychology in Blood and Ishuca's actions. Who on earth isn't afraid of their mortality? Who on earth is willing to sacrifice everything on which their identity is built and immediately reform for the sake of someone they just want to get in the sack?
Only Sugiura anticipated me on both counts and gave me all of this wonderfully nuanced character development: and that's really what it comes down to for me – the development.
Ishuca was of course terrified of his mortality, and his decision to sacrifice himself to Blood – essentially a bid to avoid dealing with his terror of mortality and isolation - is transformed into a reason for living through the irresistible reform project Blood offers. But that wouldn't have been sustainable across twenty-odd volumes without development, and their is development galore. Ishuca grows. He matures. He deals with his mortality and creates a surrogate family for himself alongside Blood, sure, but Sugiura neatly avoids the pitfall of Sueing him into a pristine Force For Good. Ishuca loves Blood, and that's all well and good, but it also makes him scarily obsessive and protective, which he'd never been before. He's horribly gut-wrenchingly anguished to be torn away from Blood while imprisoned in the temple, but it's a new, selfish anguish. (And as an added bonus, much more believably depicted than your run-of-the-mill Yami no Matsuei stuff.)
Likewise, while I can accept Blood's initial carnal fascination with Ishuca, I wouldn't have been able to suspend my disbelief enough to accept that as the sole motivating factor for his actions sans the further development Sugiura delivers. Blood learns the Big Life Lessons – killing is bad, loyalty to your loved ones is important – but he's not transformed into some golden-hearted do-gooder right off the bat, either. He does good, but he hates doing it. He messes up, big time, quite a few times. He learns to compromise while bitching and dragging his feet the entire way, which is how it happens in real life, too.
There are so many things I want to say about these two characters that I could probably go on forever. But what it really boils down to is that while these two characters are so necessary to one another, and although they get a fairytale ending, it isn't an easy ride for either of them. But it's a real one and a nuanced one, and it gives me the feeling that they're still out there having adventures even though the series proper has finished.
これで以上です。
cienna asked for Blood and Ishuca.I'm hesitant to write about these two because
perseid has already done it so, so much more articulately with her excellent posts on the series. (Go read them. NOW.) What I love the most about these two is the development. And we owe it all to the brilliance of Sugiura Shiho (my future wife!), because Blood-and-Ishuca-the-characters could have failed so miserably, so easily.
To tell the truth, I thought the first chapter of Koori was cute as a one-off, and that it was too bad it didn't stay that way for oh, the first five or so tankoubon. The story was so pat! So predictable! The motivations and reactions so unbelievable (in a story about demons and magic, but whatever. I want realistic psychology from my characters, even when they exist in fantastic settings).
And I just didn't think there was much in the way of realistic psychology in Blood and Ishuca's actions. Who on earth isn't afraid of their mortality? Who on earth is willing to sacrifice everything on which their identity is built and immediately reform for the sake of someone they just want to get in the sack?
Only Sugiura anticipated me on both counts and gave me all of this wonderfully nuanced character development: and that's really what it comes down to for me – the development.
Ishuca was of course terrified of his mortality, and his decision to sacrifice himself to Blood – essentially a bid to avoid dealing with his terror of mortality and isolation - is transformed into a reason for living through the irresistible reform project Blood offers. But that wouldn't have been sustainable across twenty-odd volumes without development, and their is development galore. Ishuca grows. He matures. He deals with his mortality and creates a surrogate family for himself alongside Blood, sure, but Sugiura neatly avoids the pitfall of Sueing him into a pristine Force For Good. Ishuca loves Blood, and that's all well and good, but it also makes him scarily obsessive and protective, which he'd never been before. He's horribly gut-wrenchingly anguished to be torn away from Blood while imprisoned in the temple, but it's a new, selfish anguish. (And as an added bonus, much more believably depicted than your run-of-the-mill Yami no Matsuei stuff.)
Likewise, while I can accept Blood's initial carnal fascination with Ishuca, I wouldn't have been able to suspend my disbelief enough to accept that as the sole motivating factor for his actions sans the further development Sugiura delivers. Blood learns the Big Life Lessons – killing is bad, loyalty to your loved ones is important – but he's not transformed into some golden-hearted do-gooder right off the bat, either. He does good, but he hates doing it. He messes up, big time, quite a few times. He learns to compromise while bitching and dragging his feet the entire way, which is how it happens in real life, too.
There are so many things I want to say about these two characters that I could probably go on forever. But what it really boils down to is that while these two characters are so necessary to one another, and although they get a fairytale ending, it isn't an easy ride for either of them. But it's a real one and a nuanced one, and it gives me the feeling that they're still out there having adventures even though the series proper has finished.
これで以上です。
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