Or his own tormented longings? Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.
Viz Media has had some good luck with Aya Kanno’s work before, such as with Blank Slate and then with Otomen, so it was no surprise that they went after another of her works with Requiem of the Rose King.
“Aya Kanno returns to a darker, gothic-inspired aesthetic, reworking Shakespeare’s classic tragedy about poisonous Machiavellian ambition into a ruthless and beautiful new series.