Baraou no Souretsu 9/10

You like manga and William Shakespeare? Well look no further, this time Aya Kanno shows us her skills by taking on the classic play "Richard III" and accompanies it with beautiful illustrations, which make reading and looking at "Baraou no Souretsu" pure joy. It has all the darkness of Shakespeare's play, dirty games of/for thrones, a little love, a little religion, a little scandal, some mysteries - what is Richard? I just love this play, so to be able to read it as manga is amazing. If you aren't familiar with Richard III, it's fine, in the manga the story gets explained well enough. I couldn't stop reading once I started, it's profound as it should be (but also has some light moments) and all those great characters, constantly we are forced to ask ourselves, if this person in front of us, for doing what he does - is evil or just a human like everyone else, aren't we all doing evil things, what is evil anyway?! A soldier that kills to protect someone else? A parent that can't love her child, because she is scared of it? A woman tortured and punished for wanting something seemingly impossible? A story about life, hope, death, loneliness, revenge and so many other things.
If you would like to read something that comes close to perfection, it's Shakespeare's Richard III, a piece of literature, which many other great artists have made plays or movies about (some good some bad) or used as inspiration, but rarely did I enjoy literature that comes in manga format, so Aya thank you for this well done piece of work, something different from typical shoujo or shounen manga, which hopefully won't end too fast :) As a matter of fact, now I want to search for more mangas that are based on Shakespeares plays.