Yuki Kaori

[eni]

Welcome to the Yuki Kaori's Manga Discussion Thread

Her manga are usually darker Shoujo/Shounen-Ai and if you don't know her works - then better get known to them soon! Manga listed in chronological order.

God Child
Previously known as: Count Cain

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (vol1-5 1992-1994 as "Count Cain" and vol6-14 2001–2004)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Historical, Horror, Mystery,Supernatural
Japanese Release: 13 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: Ch4 of Volume 7 by Sakura Crisis (inactive)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

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. Yet beneath his regal bearing lies a pained existence that haunts his very soul. 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, Cain investigates his father's alleged involvement with a secret organization known as Delilah.

Downloads: Sakura Crisis (DDL) || Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Cruel Fairytales

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (1993)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Japanese Release: 1 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 1 Volume by Sakura Crisis (complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

This is a fairytale of Luccia, who came to Julian's house along with 2 other girls as a prospective candidate for his long lost sister. Then the girls start to disappear...

Downloads: Sakura Crisis (DDL) || Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Gravel Kingdom

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (1993)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Fantasy, Adventure
Japanese Release: 1 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 1 Volume by Sakura Crisis (complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

Kirameki is the unwilling heir to the throne of his Kingdom, which is at war against the sand people. One day, a new heir to the throne suddenly shows up...

Downloads: Sakura Crisis (DDL) || Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Angel Sanctuary

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (1994–2000)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Supernatural
Japanese Release: 20 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 20 Volume by Omanga & Hawks (complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

The angel Alexiel loved God, but she rebelled against Heaven when she saw how disgracefully the other angels were behaving. She was finally captured, and as punishment sent to Earth to live an endless series of tragic lives. She now inhabits the body of Setsuna Mudo, a troubled teen in love with his sister Sara. Setsuna's misery mirrors the chaos among the angels, and their combined passions threaten to destroy both Heaven and Earth.

2 Artbooks - Angel Cage and Lost Angel

3 Episode OVA (First Manga Arc)

Downloads: Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Kain

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (1996)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Drama, Mystery, Psychological
Japanese Release: 1 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 1 Volume by Sakura Crisis (complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

Shinogu wakes up from a coma to find that everyone thinks he is his twin rock-star brother, Kaine. Unfortunately, Kaine had many enemies, and one of them wants Kaine (Shinogu) dead...

Downloads: Sakura Crisis (DDL) || Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Boys Next Door

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (1998)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Drama, Psychological, Shounen-Ai
Japanese Release: 1 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 1 Volume by Sakura Crisis (1 of 3 stories complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

Adrian is a confused murderer. He is gentle at heart and a well respected school teacher, but his mental condition has led him to kill numerous young boys. The manga starts with his killings being discovered and him being arrested. However, the story takes place before this happens. It's the story of him and the boy who he fell in love with. As typical of Kaori Yuki's stories, it is dark, sad, and very good
(synopsis from Sakura-Crisis site)

Well, there are actually two other Stories in the book and Sakura-Crisis didn't release them.
There are called "Devil Inside", done 1989 and "When a Heart Beats", done 1988.

Downloads: Sakura Crisis (DDL) || Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

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Neji

Serialized in: Hana to Yume (2001)
Genre: Mature Shōjo, Drama, Action, Sci-Fic
Japanese Release: 1 Tankōbon (complete)
Scanlation: 1 Volume by Omanga (complete)
Age Ranking: Older Teenager

Neji and his fiancé were killed after getting caught up in an unfortunate kidnapping situation. After being cryogenically frozen by the GERA, the ESP research facility, for 40 years, Neji wakes up. It doesn’t take long for the GERA to discover Neji’s extremely powerful and unnatural powers and to make him into one of their mercenaries. However, Neji finds out his fiancé will be used as a guinea pig for the research facility's medical research and desperately tries to escape. In the second part, Neji encounters his nephew, who is also created from GERA and both begin on their journey through the future where human-like robots are used as slaves.

Downloads: Lurk (IRC) || Evil Empire (Freehosts)
Resources: Mangaupdates

~ list in progress - break for the night, it's 3.30am *yaaaawn*

To go tomorrow:
Ludwig Revolution, Bloodhound, Fairy Cube, Psycho Knocker and Perfume Master
Does anyone know what Kafka (from 1994) is? Found the cover but no info at the usual scanlation sources o.O

Natsufuku no Eri 1987
When a Heart Beats 1987
Devil Inside 1988
Tokei Jikake no Orange Bakudan 1988
Tokyo Pop 1989
agical Mystery Tour 1990
Jikan o Tometa Shônen tachi 1990
Sonotoki Tina wa Kako o Mita 1991
Butaiura no Mage 1991
Blanche 1991
Double 1991
Wasurerareta Jurietto (Earl Cain 1) 1991
Shi no Cleo Drefus 199
Neji - Acte I "Le Réveil" 1992
Stonehenge 1992
Zankokuna Dôwa tachi 1992
Rakuin no Bibi 1992
Tsurareta Okoto 1992
Shônen no Fukasuru Oto (Earl Cain2) 1992
Dare ga Komadori Koroshita no ? 1993
Kirikizamareta berareta Miss Pudding no Higeki 1993
Nejireta Dôwa 1993
Kafka (Earl Cain 3) 1993
Neji - acte II "Batsu" 1993
Sareki Ôkoku 1993
Elizabeth in the mirror 1994
Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin (Earl Cain 4) 1994
Début de Angel Sanctuary 1995
Kaine ~ die to live no Endorufin 1996
Shônen Zanzô (Boy's Next Door) 1997
Sunday's Solomon Grundy 1999
Ludwig Kakumei 1 "Blanche-neige" 1999
Ludwig Kakumei 2 "Le petit chaperon rouge" 1999
Angel Sanctuary vol 20 2001
Mad tea party 2001
The little crooked house 2001
Black Sheep 2001
Scold's Bridle 2001
Ludwig Kakumei 3 "La belle au bois dormant" 2001
Neji - acte 3 "Norma Jean P013" 2001
Mein Liebe 2001
Butterfly Bone 2002
Earl Cain 5 2002
Bloodberry jam 2002
Lion Emblem 2002
Zigeunerweisen 2002
Mortician's Daughter 2002
The stake 2002
Little Miss Muffet 2002
Bloody Maria 2002
Castrato 2002
Yorugata Aijin Senmonten (Blood Hound) 2003/2004
Yuda no Seppun 2003
Oedipus no Yaiba 2003
Misericord 2003
Godless 2003
Aohige ~ Barbe Bleue (Ludwig) 2004
0 no Sôkôshi 2004
Psycho Knocker 2004
Blood Hound ch.4 2004
Fairy Cube 2005

I'm not going to list them all

[Nami]

I kind of agreed that her series are usually dark, I call them twisted!



My most recent read is her new one called Zero no Soukoushi, a one-shot volume which talks about this guy who is an expert in perfumes and how he solve mysteries using his acute sense of smell.



The other one, I totally love is actually Ludwig Revolution - a series of short fairy tales that we all know like Red Riding Hood and Snow white, in her own weird but kind of make-sense way.

Anyway, her next one on my list will be Angel Santuary.

[KatouYue]

I love Yuki Kaori's works. Both the art and the plotlines are gorgeous. Her stories are also quite complex, and I like her exploring the human nature.

I particularly like Angel Sanctuary and Count Cain, have also read Cruel Fairytales, Boys Next Door, Kaine (was my first one, and I fell in love with it), Gravel Kingdom, Neji... well, everything except 0 no Soukoshi and Psycho Knocker.
Oh, and Fairy Cube. Haven't read that yet, except for the first couple of chapters.

[Lisaa]

Angel Sanctuary's licensed in Poland by JPF ^^ This manga will go out in March ;D

I konow her manga's like:
- Angel Sanctuary
- Blood Hound
- Cruel Fairytales
- Gravel Kingdom

[Nami]

Oh..come to think of it, I have not heard of Gravel Kingdom.
What is it about? Is it nice?

[eni]

Gravel Kingdom is one of her first works, a short-storie. It's an older one from 1993.

http://sakuracrisis.ukepile.com/
Check it out, it's worth it^^

The world, now covered in sand, is where a war is raged between the humans and the cause of earth's destruction, the Sandbiters. The Sandbiters devour humans and control sand dragons. Only the Kingdom of Time remains, protected by the Water Goddess. Kirameki is heir to the kingdom. In his youth, Kirameki wondered into the desert and met Saga, a Sandbiter. Eight years later, when Kira is a teenager, a Sandbiter infiltrates the Kingdom. The infiltrator is Saga, Kira's half-brother and childhood playmate, who begins to try to take over the Kingdom of Time.

The following is taken from my first post here, since I started to modify it as an Yuki Kaori Index

My first Shoujo was Angel Sanctuary which is not that long ago for me (2001/2002). Shoujo was one of the later manga genres I discovered. And till today is Yuki Kaori's name the first that comes to my mind when thinking about deeper girls manga and her whole art is stamped into my brain. I really was addicted with her releases for a long time, particulary Angel Sanctuary and Boy's Next Door. I also loved Neiji and Bloodhound, wished she had these two made a bit longer then one volume.

I've read and own(ed) Angel Sanctuary (incl. the Artbooks and OVA), Bloodhound, Boy's Next Door, Cruel Fairytales, God Child, Gravel Kingdom and Neiji. Haven't start reading Fairy Cube yet, though.

I know most of her works are a bit older now, but still part of my alltime-favorites. The art alone is awesome enough but she also gives you some different thoughts how the world works.
Scary thoughts sometimes, heh

[Prodigy-child]

Love Yuki Kaori's work. Especially Angel Sanctuary and Ludwig Kakumei

[Xophien]

What am I doing on this board ? >.>

Anyway, I've read all the works of Kaori Yuki published in France, meaning Angel Sanctuary, Neji, Kain, God Child, and the first volume of Fairy Cube that was released last month. I even own all the Angel Sanctuary and Kain, and the two Angel Sanctuary artbooks. I just love her work, both the art and the stories are great (though a bit difficult for my guy intellect ).

[starfall856]

woah some of these sound pretty good....
which one do you think is worth the read?

[Nami]

I recommend you read the one-volume complete series first to get a feel of her work - as some readers find her manga too wordy and complicated.

One-volume - Kaine & Ludwig Revolution, and Cruel Fairytales should be good.

Or you can try reading Angel Sancturay (19 vols -as this is complete in scanlations). Count Cain is good too, but it is still an on-going series.

Let us know what's your opinions once you have tried any.
Cheers!

[Xophien]

Or you can try reading Angel Sancturay (19 vols -as this is complete in scanlations).

20 volumes actually

[starfall856]

sweet thanks

[eni]

Hm, I started with Angel Sanctuary before I got to the Oneshots. I think the Oneshots are more confusing then the longer series^^"

Yuki Kaori is the best example on how hard to read a manga can be. Honestly, I was told by a friend that I have to read her manga carefully and laughed about the warning - then got lost and had to re-read several pages to understand what she wanted to tell me >.>
Her plot-building is here and there very confusing - but it all makes sense later. Don't give up xD

[Nami]

I am now reading Angel Sanctuary!! It is pure love

Like what Eni said, her longer series are indeed much much better!
And for Angel Sanctuary, it really has a lot of words, much more than any other series i had read but I think it is all the narration that gives the story a more enriching feel to it. And the artwork is just so beautiful, if you are into the 'fallen rock star' look.

The story of Angel Sanctuary is kind of like a trip in wonderland - through earth, hell and heavens. Hmm..a Must Read!!

So does anyone here read any of her series too?