Lunar Cataclysm

I have a problem . I’m a Compulsive Buyer . When i have money in my hand , I must go my favorite book store and buy Manga .

Of course , when i go there I only plan on picking 1 manga , but i end up leaving with generally more then 3 , depending on how much money I have .

Unfortunately ( or luckily ? ) for me , I happened to have received money Tuesday , so yesterday i went to the the book store and that’s when i see “The Cross Triangle ” ( along with Kekkaishi 8 and GetBackers 21 T_T ) .

The first thought that cross my mind when i saw the cover was ” wtf , is this..Himeko O_o ?! . Kannazuki made it here ? O_o . Damn them , i can’t believe those idiot renamed “kannazuki no Miko ” into “the cross triangle ” , because after all , these idiot did translate “bokura ga ita ” into “c’etait nous ” ( in English , “it was us ” ) . And by these idiot’s , i’m of course talking about Vegeta Manga Shoten/Soleil .

And the way the manga begun didn’t help me into thinking it wasn’t Kannazuki , but as I went to the last page to see if there was the YFR , i realized it was another manga .

Actually , The Cross Triangle was made two years before Kannazuki , and is a one-shot manga . But you can could consider it Kannazuki’s parent as you can see that Kannazuki was loosely inspired of this story .

now on to the review .

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The manga stars with Ogami ( yeah , the same Ogami Souma , expect he is only called Ogami ) confessing to Kurusu ( Himeko’s ancestor..¬¬) and saying he is there to protect her . However , because she is persuaded her best friend Kihara ( Chikane’s ancestor..¬¬ ) loves Ogami , she backs down and doesn’t answer the man even thought she loves him . Those three go the the same catholic school and are in the same class . Later on , in the class , the girls chatter about a new priest who is attractive . Troubled because of Ogami’s declaration earlier , Kurusu decide to go to the church and there she meets the Priest ( he looks like one of the guy from Kyoushiro . ) The later tells he incomprehensible things that only confuse the poor girl even more , such as telling her she doesn’t realize who she is . Scared , she goes back home . The night , she wants to feed her cat , but cut slightly cut herself . While the cat was eating ( a bit of blood had been mixed with the food ) , it transformed and grew wings . Scared , she runs outside where Ogami is waiting for her and tells her he loves her and will protect her from those after her body . Afraid of understand what Ogami is trying to mean , she escapes and hides under a tree where she cries . A little comes to comfort her , but it turned out to be a monster after her . and it wasn’t alone . Of course Ogami comes to the rescue ( at least tries ) , but the Priest arrives , saves her and kill the monsters .

The second chapter skipped some times , Kurusu is now used to her daily life of fighting the monster and accepted the fact that she is non other but the Goddess of the Darkness , the Princess who reins over the creatures from the Darkness . But the Priest who is watching from afar consider Ogami not to be fitting for protecting her . He is talking with another person who he calls “Princess” , but the person replies by saying she has no intention of becoming “queen” .

The next day , Kihara is waiting for Kurusu to go back home , because the latter has been avoiding her recently so that she wouldn’t get involved in the fights . But as they get out of school , Kurusu is being target by a student of their school and Because Ogami was injured ( and thus absent ) , she couldn’t do anything. But then Priest Dior comes and the student leave . Only to attack later the night . And he easily owns Ogami but then is killed impaled by the Sword of the Crimson Lotus ( Gurren Nishiki anyone ? ) , and ancient artifact supposedly lost but Dior claim having known where it was . Then he said the one holding it is non other but his master , the other Princess of Darkness that Kurusu will have to fight : Kihara Azathot( Dun dun dun ! ) . Back at her place , not knowing what do to , Kurusu is tormenting herself , but then she remembers Kihara is her friend , so she decide to show up at school the next morning . When she tries to find Kihara to discuss , she overhears Ogami saying that she (Kurusu) doesn’t mean anything to him . Feeling betrayed she escapes ( again ) but runs into Dior who tells her to meet them the night at the rooftop so they can discuss a way to end this without having to fight .

The night , Kihara tells Kurusu she loves her , but that this feeling is incompatible with their nature , so she declares she can’t forgive neither her nor Ogami and she tries to kill Kurusu , only to have Ogami protect her and getting stabbed at her place . Then we get to see a glimpse of Ogami’s past and we learn his name is Serios . and he was chosen to wield the sword of the crimson lotus , but his Brother then went and killed everyone and escaped with the sword for unknown reasons ( Itachi ? ) . When about to finish of Ogami , Kihara is stopped by Kurusu who begs her to let him live . Dior and Kihara then leave , while Kurusu brings Ogami back to her place and tries to heal him . She then bit her lip to give him a bit of her blood by kissing him ( blood+ anyone ) .

The next morning , She decide that to protect Ogami , she must fight and kill Kihara to become the Queen , and suddenly , her cat transforms the Crux she always with her into a sword.

And so the two girl fight , Kihara confess again and cried because she can’t be happy with Kurusu , then she ask Kurusu to help her and Kurusu stabs her ..she also takes the time to kiss her and this somehow exorcise a demon that had possessed Kihara . Kurusu then kill the demon .Dior in the back comment on how he knew everything , which pisses of Ogami ( back his feet ) . Dior says that Ogami received “the sacred seal” but that it isn’t enough , and that he must became Stronger and Stronger if he wants to handle the heads of the clergy , and he escaped saying farewell to Serios .

Ogami then decide to leave to become stronger so that when he comes back , he’ll be able to protect Kurusu like a man protects the woman he loves .

the end

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So.. hum , overall that was a rather short manga , but i guess this is why they call them “one-shot ” .

It probably would have been better had it been longer . It cruelly lacked of Character development . And it kinda pissed me off that they didn’t clearly said if Dior was indeed Ogami’s brother +_+

I guess the ending of Kannazuki no Miko was basically the Kihara route when The Cross Triangle was the Ogami route .

I like Kihara better then Chikane anyway . Chikane was this annoying snobby bitch i felt like killing when Kihara is the perfect opposite , the only thing that stayed was that they both love Kurusu/Himeko .

my verdict is..although i liked it ( i hated Kannazuki because i hated Chikane ) , save your money , don’t buy this . Find the scans or something . Unless you feel like collecting everything made by “Kaishaku”