Innocent - Review

The story is set in the eighteenth century, at the gates of the French Revolution, and focuses on Charles-Henri Sanson, the most famous executor in the history of France and the fourth of a family dynasty of official executioners. He administered the death penalty in the city of Paris for forty years, executing thousands of people. This work portrays the "innocence" with which he nobly faced his cruel destiny.

Before starting the review I have to say that it is a gore manga, where there are bloody scenes and dismemberment of human members and very explicit murders. Also, my review probably contains spoilers of the story. And in this review I'm just going to focus on the first volumes of the story because then it has a continuation.

The story begins in the year 1850 in France where the maximum power was still monarchy, and where people who committed a crime their punishment was to be killed by executioners. And that's what the story is about, tells the life of the most famous family of executioners of all France, and everything from the point of view and the narration of Charles, the eldest son and the next in the chain to be the main executioner of the family. At his early 15 years he is already forced to start executing people but he refuses completely because he has a terrible disgust for blood and mostly for his conscience.

Charles rejects everything his family does for his morals, as well as for how society looks at his family. There is so much contempt of people towards them that there is a rumor that says "if you get to touch a Sanson, in the future he will execute you". That phrase, which is present from the beginning of the story, made me realize that as the story progresses Charles has the bad luck of everyone who comes to grab a minimum of affection ends up executing.

Another thing that we realize while reading is that Charles is the most sane of all history, that can be seen from the first chapters when Charles's father tortures him to make him say that he will continue with the family profession. There is also a scene of torture by Charles's grandmother to the youngest daughter (Marie Sanson) of the family, where the old woman comes to burn the girl with a steel bar in the form of the family emblem on the chest of the less.

The manga becomes so explicit that it takes the trouble to explain in detail various ways to torture and murder. In each chapter where there is a different execution, this execution is written in a plan that tells you how to do it and what works. I like that when Charles had to execute, he did it in the way that the person suffered as little as possible and that he did it in such a beautiful and kind way that even the inhabitants of the city said that if at any moment they arrived They wanted Charles to kill them, because they would suffer as little as possible.

I love that all the situations and things that I have said before are accompanied by a beautiful illustration, the drawing style is beautiful, it is a combination of manga drawing style but with very realistic features. And what I love is that everything, both architecture and clothing, have features inspired by the Rococo. That combination of illustration style with the time makes everything look beautiful even if it is the bloodiest scene in the world. In truth I tell you that I started reading this manga was because of the images I saw on the internet, the drawings of its pages that every time I spent the chapter I marveled at its illustrations. I think that even if you do not like gore, I think it's worth the sacrifice just to see the drawings, because they're really beautiful. I wish I had the manga in physical, so I could take pictures of how beautiful it is.

I also liked it a lot, already going to the characters, the decadence or the madness and despair that sometimes show, the way the mangaka drew the expressions of the characters is incredible. Seeing how people thought about that time is also very interesting and interesting. And speaking of characters here I want to talk about Marie Sanson, she is the younger sister of Charles, at first she is shown as a very cute and tender girl about 5 years old, but as a whole life she grew up with the idea of ​​execution and forms of torturing you can see how, as the story progresses, he grabs her as a taste or curiosity on the subject, getting to the point of even helping and giving advice to Charles about an execution he is doing. And mentioning Marie is that I finish my review, since I have not yet read the continuation called Innocent Rouge, which of what I understand is about 10 years in the future and it shows Marie already great and I think the History is from her point of view. Obviously when you read the following I'll make another post with your review.

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