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A new creative wave has recently seized the figure of the zombie. Zack Snyder offered us a Las Vegas that has become the territory of choice for a hierarchical zombie society. The Koreans with the Kingdom series or Netflix with the Revolution have taken the undead out of the horror film register to integrate it into the historical fresco. The mangaka Kumiko Suekane, known for the astonishing series Afterschool Charisma , takes up this theme in turn. With its design so refined, his love of the universe shifted, she signed Versailles of the Dead , ambitious story at the intersection of Lady Oscar, of the Revolution (the series) and the Brotherhood of the Wolf. An atypical work with immense potential but which is lost in the threads of a sometimes confused weft and poorly managing its rhythm.
When zombies come to the table of history
1770, the young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette wins France to join the Dauphin Louis, heir to the throne of France. At his side travels in secret his twin brother who serves when the need arises as a double of the queen. But his convoy approaches a country ravaged by an unknown evil which gives life to the living dead. They attack the royal carriage in the countryside. The escort is massacred, the young princess devoured. Only his brother seems to have survived even though he is unable to explain how.
Returning to the court of Versailles, he decides to pass himself off as his sister and play the role of the future queen of France. If the deception is quickly discovered, the dolphin puts up with it, preferring illusion to truth. Because the threat of the living dead is growing and behind the scenes forces are agitated: some fighting against the plague others using it. The king himself pursues a mysterious quest meant to eradicate zombies. What he does not know is that the twin brother did not come back completely unscathed from the attack and that he carries within him the scars of a demonic force.
Versailles of the dead : Du beau et du gore
The first four volumes set up a fascinating atmosphere that never loses intensity. Indeed Kumiko Suekane is based on a brilliant artistic idea: the shift. On the one hand, she produces extremely refined, luminous, realistic drawings. The faces give off a lot of softness, sensuality. The decorations express both the immensity of the palaces, the wealth of the king and the diversity of the kingdom. Particular attention has also been paid to textures: wall, objects. The historical reality is not neglected either. The reader will cross the famous necklace of the queen, will remember the love of the king's doors or recognize the individual weapons of the time. It is thus very easy for the reader to be caught up in the intrigue which is inscribed as a worthy heir to that of Lady Oscar .
And on the other hand, the mangaka gives us a story of zombies without restraint. The gore is indeed very present. The tomes strike a fine balance between horror and suggestion. There are no free or too long scenes. The attacks are quick, the corpses pile up with the right amount of close-ups. Blood, entrails, dot the pages but never ad nauseam. And as the line remains as beautiful as ever, we are immersed as in Le Pacte des Loups in a baroque tale: a sublime monstrosity.
A fascinating bias, a fading plot
Kumiko Suekane likes to take risks. Not content with integrating zombies into the history of France, she takes the opportunity to revisit through the character of the brother, the figure of the knight of Éon. It takes up the basic idea of the Lady Oscar series by reversing the postulate. Here, it is no longer a woman dressed up as a man but the opposite. She then cleverly treats the figure of the transvestite brother and all that it triggers: homosexual attraction, paternity. While building around a universe where we meet historical figures: Napoleon, Cagliostro, Louis XV, the favorites… Figures with which she plays: the future Napoleon is totally different from the model, the dolphin is much more inclined than his model. The historical reality is twisted in favor of a double pleasurable plot: the fight against the living dead,
However, from volume 3, the dynamic runs out of steam, the subject loses its effectiveness. On the one hand, it seems that the overall structure suffers from a very (too much?) Large number of secondary characters whose motivations are difficult to understand. It is often necessary to reread old passages several times to get a more or less clear idea of the forces involved. And as the plot goes fast, the action is omnipresent, we often get lost between these protagonists who all have a crucial role. The author's narrative ambition also explains this confusion, this exhaustion of the narration. She does indeed have a lot to say. A third plot (worthy of the best esoteric novels) invites itself besides to the existing ones, even more explosive, deserving of important developments. However, each volume struggles to clarify the issues,
Versailles of the dead : a furious desire to continue
However, it is not the least of the paradoxes to note the immense capital of sympathy that this series retains after four volumes. Despite the important reservations related to the narrative, it remains obvious that the urge to know the end remains intact. How to explain this contradiction? The first explanation follows from the author's sense of suspense. Each manga ending frustrates us enormously by leaving us both hungry and suggesting a revelation to come. The reader remains convinced that the managaka has perfectly calculated his stroke that the end will justify all the script shadows.
The second reason relates to the characters. Whether it is the fake Marie-Antoinette, the king, the bodyguards, we are very attached to their destiny. Everything is confusing, assumed. The evolution of the false queen places us in front of an uncertainty: is she a victim, an executioner, a puppet? At the end of the penultimate volume, nothing is played, everything remains unclear. The result is the desire to see how the author will succeed in closing all the narrative arcs in the fifth and much awaited final volume.
The manga Versailles of the dead remains an atypical work, visually superb, based on a rather zany and assumed concept. Scenario reserves exist without however completely spoiling the pleasure of reading. The discovery of the last volume will allow this series to be fully judged.
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