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While I was at Borders, I snagged a the first book of Les Bijoux, a beautiful manga featuring very pretty boys. Putting sheer aesthetics aside, one of the reasons that I got it was that it features a protagonist who can change gender. As a boy, he's Lapis, as a girl Lazuli. As a boy, he hates The Diamond, the overlord of his realm who killed his parents in an effort to get to him; however, as Lazuli, she begins to fall in love with The Diamond. This is complicated by the fact that as Lapis, the Diamond is trying to kill him for attacking and disfiguring him. However, he is violently in love with Lazuli.
I've read the first four books, the fifth and final one doesn't seem to be out yet. Damn it.
In drawing style, Lapis and The Diamond (the other characters and some settings too) remind me very much of Colleen Doran's lovely men and women from her quite wonderful A Distant Soil comic. And if you don't know Doran's work and especially if you are a fan of sweeping space opera, hurry up and go order the trade paperbacks of the comics.
I've read the first four books, the fifth and final one doesn't seem to be out yet. Damn it.
In drawing style, Lapis and The Diamond (the other characters and some settings too) remind me very much of Colleen Doran's lovely men and women from her quite wonderful A Distant Soil comic. And if you don't know Doran's work and especially if you are a fan of sweeping space opera, hurry up and go order the trade paperbacks of the comics.