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Describe Count Cain here.

Oh, dear. Where to start?

If you love Elegant Gothic Lolita, you'll probably like this. If you like incest, you'll probably like this. If you like murder mysteries, you might well get along with it.

Firstly, it's a Kaori Yuki manga. Set in a...Victorianesque world (probably not meant to be actual Victorian England), the series centres around a young Earl (Count in the Scanlation), Earl Cain Hargreaves. Cain is seventeen, apparently orphaned, rich and eccentric. Unfortunately, his eccentricity doesn't manifest itself in collecting stamps.

Everybody in Cain's family, we are told, has a habit of studying poisons. Cain is no different. He uses his knowledge of poisons for good - or, at least, what passes for good in his world. He can identify many poisons at a glance - or else he gets his manservant, Riff, to test them. More often he uses his knowledge to seek justice for murder victims, usually by poisoning the murderer. Count Cain is big on morality tales.

Like, say, CSI, Count Cain brings up just about every kink under the sun, primarily for sensationalism. It's like a manga version of Victorian penny dreadfuls. It loves its gothic tropes, it loves its bad steampunk science. Most of all, it loves its blood and death and tragedy. And madness. Don't forget the madness.

The series was originally split into two halves, as Yuki Kaori took a break from it to work on Angel Sanctuary. The first part consisting of four arcs collected in five volumes; and the second, titled Godchild, a continuation begun some years later. Viz translated Godchild first. Not to mention the numerous mistakes made in translation (and not corrected later).

I always wondered... which was the theme of the painting in bloody Maria? For a while I thought it was Medea but the complete painting never appeared.