YMMV / Count Cain

• Die for Our Ship: During the Jack The Ripper arc, the love triangle between Emelyne, Cain and Merediana. Before Emelyne got murdered there was a huge split among the fans who began to hate Merediana and heavily support Emelyne-Cain.
• Fridge Brilliance: Concerning the arc mentioned just below, there are quite a few reasons why the female villain in "Scold's Bridle" is Attractive. One, she is a noblewoman, who were given nutritious and not physically damaging diets as well as having pretty mothers. Two, her injury is not one that would give her something like bad hair or horrible eyes; three, that she is actually attractive could reflect on the arc's lesson on how greed for beauty and not feeling enough could leave someone feeling ugly, even if they are genuinely attractive; fourth, she dies shortly of a parasite, and it is revealed by Jizabel that he didn't put the parasite in Marywether after all, hence it was put into the villainess. Since it was said that the parasite makes women conventionally prettier before it kills them, it would make sense that she is pretty.
• Hollywood Homely: Drew in the Scold's Bridle story arc is supposed to be unattractive, which in the art style's terms translates to red hair, glasses and a slightly curvier build than the other female characters.
  • Emelyne Lauderdale considered herself as having been butt-ugly as a child, to the point that she even wore servants' clothes because she was convinced better clothes wouldn't look good on her. Her face as a child isn't shown until later at which point she looks childish and the only "flaw" in her face are a few freckles.
• Nightmare Fuel: The sheer creepiness of how all the gory murders Cain investigates follow nursery rhymes that are already rather disturbing. Then, there's this.
• Tear Jerker: Everywhere, especially the last three volumes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Jester. The white-haired violinist Owl. Upon properly introducing himself, he flat out admits that he's the Jester with the number 0, so he is no-one's subordinate and can do as he pleases. It's even mentioned that he and Cain met when they were younger and played music together. Owl seems to have a twisted view of the world, relishing in seeing the world ending, but would rather be an observer than an instigator. And after Alexis dies and the end of the world is once again put on hold, Owl waits for the next person to come along who will fulfill the role. He sounds interesting and as if his character could be made much more, maybe even a protagonist of his own story, but he disappears in the final chapter.

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