After finishing off the Godchild series I was a little apprehensive about going back to this prequel series mainly because of the creep out factor. However, once I started it wasn't too bad. Although I believe the Cain Saga was written first I believe it was published second here in the states. It didn't go back quite as far into Cain's past as I had thought it would. Here he is only a year or two younger than in the other series. You can certainly see the difference both in the art and in the story telling. As always Cain is very cold, but here it seems even more intense. He is a young man with no qualms about meting out revenge in the most deadly of ways as he sees fit.

Two stories of this first volume are stand alones and have nothing to do with the Cain story. The problem is that all the characters resemble each other so in the first of these I kept thinking I was reading about Cain when it was a completely different character. The second stand alone about the stone angel was definitely high in the creep/tragic factor. At first I didn't really want to read it but it turned out to be quite engrossing.

I will say that I prefer this manga-ka's later work in the Godchild series than in this so far. The differences in the artwork are quite startling and it is only in the last page, last panel that the characters of Riff and Cain here begin to resemble how they look in Godchild. The good side of this volume is that at least it didn't give me nightmares LOL! Overall I would suggest both this series and the Godchild series to lovers of horror manga with a twisted psychological bent. ( )