YMMV / Angels of Music

• Complete Monster: See here.
• Genius Bonus: You can read the book perfectly well without recognising half the characters - and unless you keep stopping to Google them, or can identify a No Celebrities Were Harmed Thomas Edison from an 1899 French novel off the top of your head, you're probably going to have to.
• Magnificent Bastard: The Phantom, aka Erik, is the leader of the Opera Ghost Agency, a Charlie's Angels-esqe detective agency which Erik uses to profit off. A quiet, calculating schemer, Erik constantly devises new ingenious and ruthless plans in order to succeed which include: secretly hypnotizing his Angels without their knowledge to act on his signal to disable Cagilostro; setting up a mole to infiltrate the murderous Red Circle and expose them before butchering the Red Circle for their crimes; and destroying Charles Foster Kane's plan to fund a war between Europe and America that would mean his beloved Opera house would be demolished. Equal parts cold manipulator and complex mastermind, Erik is genuinely protective of his Angels to the point that he sacrifices himself to save one and ends up taking himself and his nemesis Cagilostro to an apparent watery doom.

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