{"id":3932,"date":"2008-08-25T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2013-12-29T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T22:32:24","slug":"godchild-volume-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2008\/08\/25\/godchild-volume-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Godchild Volume 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shall the son suffer for the continued sins of the father?\u00a0 Alexis hatches an evil plan involving a beautiful girl with a sick fascination for his son.\u00a0 And could Jizabel’s hatred of Cain also stem from their father? Step into the past as we learn more about the tortured early life of Dr. Disraeli!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Godchild<\/a>By Kaori Yuki<\/strong>
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Viz Media
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> Older Teen
\nGenre:<\/strong> Drama\/Horror
\nPrice:<\/strong> $8.99<\/p>\n

If the last volume was about betrayal, then the theme of this one could be said to be about love.\u00a0 It can be twisted from infatuation into obsession, and independence into servitude.\u00a0 But, in the face of a pure heart, such manipulations can be broken.<\/p>\n

Alexis Hargreaves is the master of manipulation. He uses the emotion of love and twists it from something beautiful to something dark and evil.\u00a0 We watch him pull both Mikaila’s and Disraeli’s strings to get them to do his bidding, but the puppet he needs most has already cut his strings.\u00a0 Cain is no long under his father’s spell, and can not only refuse him, but one-ups him!\u00a0 It was very refreshing to see Cain be one step ahead of his father for a change.<\/p>\n

Throughout this volume we see Alexis at work, and what lengths he will go to break loved ones, especially with Dr. Disraeli.\u00a0 Alexis turned his relatively happy life into a hellish nightmare in just one night, breaking him completely.\u00a0 He becomes Alexis’ puppet with next to no fight.\u00a0 The flashback of Disraeli’s life was very unsettling.\u00a0 I couldn’t read it a second time.\u00a0 Yuki-sensei’s portrayal of the lamb’s head in certain scenes was particularly disturbing.<\/p>\n

The power of love is a theme that runs through a lot of Yuki-sensei’s titles.\u00a0 This title seems to explore the darker side of love, and the extremes one will go to when they believe they are in it.\u00a0 But it also shows the strength one can gain from it when it is used properly.\u00a0 Throughout this series, Alexis taunts Cain as being someone who will never know love, and usually this bothers Cain.\u00a0 But by this volume, he knows his father is wrong, as he has Mary and his Aunt and Uncle at his side.\u00a0 The taunt is meaningless, and Cain has the strength to not only stand up to Alexis, but beat him at his own game.<\/p>\n

A few characters are lost in this volume, but it seems more like cleaning up before the last act.\u00a0 The final conflict between Cain and Alexis needs to be the focus of the next and final volume, so the tying of loose ends has to start now.\u00a0 While Disraeli’s motivations are explained, we still don’t know what Alexis is trying to accomplish with Delilah, or why, but he is going to great lengths to accomplish them.\u00a0 Is it the power of love that drives him?\u00a0 Or is he someone else’s puppet?\u00a0 The last volume should explain it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shall the son suffer for the continued sins of the father?\u00a0 Alexis hatches an evil plan involving a beautiful girl with a sick fascination for his son.\u00a0 And could Jizabel’s hatred of Cain also stem from their father? Step into the past as we learn more about the tortured early life of Dr. Disraeli! By Kaori Yuki Publisher: Viz Media Age Rating: Older Teen Genre: Drama\/Horror Price: $8.99 If the last volume was about betrayal, then the theme of this one could be said to be about love.\u00a0 It can be twisted from infatuation into obsession, and independence into servitude.\u00a0 But, in the face of a pure heart, such manipulations can be broken. Alexis Hargreaves is the master of manipulation. He uses the emotion of love and twists it from something beautiful to something dark and evil.\u00a0 We watch him pull both Mikaila’s and Disraeli’s strings to get them to do his bidding, but the puppet he needs most has already cut his strings.\u00a0 Cain is no long under his father’s spell, and can not only refuse him, but one-ups him!\u00a0 It was very refreshing to see Cain be one step ahead of his father for a change. Throughout this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,99,110,120,121,208],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-manga","tag-older-teen","tag-review","tag-shojo","tag-shojo-beat","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2013\/04\/Godchild-7.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-11q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}