King of Hearts

King of Hearts story is Devil May Cry and Bleach meet Yu Yu Hakusho and True Blood on LOGO. It’s young, dark, and punk. I want Julian Cadaval’s story to be something bitter and shadowy. No one should be able to say they know what is going to happen at the end of each arc, let alone if it’s right. I don’t necessarily want Julian to be the hero of the story. People will be invested in his life but won’t always agree with his actions. Julian’s indifference and even his sexuality are disagreeable, but the reader still want to know where he’s going. This holds true for all the main “protagonists” all the way to the end of the story.
In reading this, one must accept that they are straddling the worlds of anime and reality. Genetic impossibilities are possible, days vary from episodes to sagas, and a sword can easily match a gun. The throes of reality still burden the story, as we have to face the gray world as opposed to something black and white. Like Desert Punk, we must acknowledge even the protagonist’s susceptibility to anger and perceived evil. Plus, few anime present such a varied mixture of ethnicities. Between a dark-skinned leading character and the presence of other language/cultural influences in the same vein as Bleach, the Kings of Hearts series has enough diversity and plot movement that it outgrows the mold of most anime.