Don't pray. No one's going to save you! In the kingdom of Exkuld, witches abandoned faith and disgraced God, living as hated, devil-worshippers instead. Judged guilty by the clergy in God's name, these witches were burned in "witch hunts." This is an epic love story of a fateful girl captured as a witch and a humble knight who risks breaking the taboo!
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Grade 10 Up—In the year 999, a young man with black skin and a nearly naked woman expose the sins of the Church as it persecutes innocents during an era of hysteria about the spread of witchcraft. Mist and Euphemia are saving those falsely accused, but are supposed to be hunting down monstrous "saints," former priests filled with the energy of those they've burned. This volume introduces a handful of characters who end up working together despite having disparate goals and methods. The tension inherent within such an allegiance should be compelling, but nothing else in the book has the same interesting touch. The combat is sprinkled with medieval German swordfighting terms, utilized as toyetic battle cries. The Church is shown as hating all things dark, simply because blackness is directly attributed to an infernal origin. Perhaps this outlook is simply part of the corrupt snow job the Church has pulled on an unsuspecting populace, but its untenable shallowness is quite risible. The only reason for Euphemia's continual near-nudity is to be shocking, mildly titillating, and to inject some semblance of humor into the proceedings. It's distracting and disappointing to find that the author has filled his pages and detailed settings with comic nudity, obvious moralizing, and cut-and-paste world-building.—Benjamin Russell, Belmont High School, NH
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'Knights' proves a pleasant surprise,
This review is from: Knights Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
This manga was clearly inspired by the witch trials, a time when if you were ever suspected a witch for the littlest things, then you have forever been targeted as such. No matter how they torture you, whether they get you to confess or not, you're still a witch in the end and there's never any proof otherwise, so you die. I can only imagine what fear the people must've lived through during this unfair time period, being ruled over by dangerous clergy of blind faith; it actually irritates me thinking about it.
For those who want a story providing a welcoming relief to it, this is it. We have a man named Mist, otherwise known as the Black Knight (literally in one aspect) who travels about to protect the innocent that were condemned as witches and challenges beliefs in faith. To me he really stands out as a very likeable and unique hero character, and not just because he's the only black character in this fantasy/adventure series. What's more, his skin color actually plays a significant part to who and how he is in the story, without any racism attached to it (except for the evil clergy who believe his skin color 'proves' he's a demon). The only thing about it that made me roll my eyes was Euphemia, a supporting heroine so rediculously scantily clad she may as well be wearing nothing, although it's kind of a running joke. So other than this one example of a semi-misogynistic female character design, it also has its very likeable female characters, including Nina, the girl that Mist saves at the start, and a very tough (not so likeable here) villainess. A very fun read and I look forward to the next volume. Trivia here: this was created by the guy who did the Burst Angel manga, for anyone who cares.
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