Cantarella

Description

From Go! Comi:

From birth, Cesare Borgia is surrounded by shadows. Damned by his own father, hated by his closest brother, separated from the sister who loves him, and driven by the demons of Hell itself, his quest for power threatens to set the world of Renaissance Italy ablaze -- unless one innocent person can drive away the poisonous shadows ravaging him!

Enter the world of the Borgias. A world of unspeakable conspiracies and forbidden desires. A family whose murderous intrigues would make them infamous throughout history. A history written in blood…and a poison called Cantarella.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Кантарелла

カンタレラ

禁斷毒天使

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Latest Release(s)

c.48 by Chillock 9 years ago

c.47 by Chillock 9 years ago

v.12 c.46 by Chillock 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

2 topics, 5 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (164 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.48 / 10.0

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13%

Last Updated

April 4th, 2025 1:29am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Historical Mature Romance Shoujo Shounen Ai Supernatural Tragedy
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Recommendations

Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori

Author(s)

HIGURI You

Artist(s)

HIGURI You

Year

2001

Original Publisher

Akita Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Princess (Akita Shoten)

Princess Gold (Akita Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

Go! Comi (Defunct / 10 Vols)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #718

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Monthly Pos #1753 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3517 (No change)

6 Month Pos #4921

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Year Pos #6243

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List Stats

On 574 reading lists

On 603 wish lists

On 155 completed lists

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Shounen-ai?

14 years ago

Cantarella

15 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Nice eye treats

by videlmegami
15 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

For me, I usually only comment on mangas that have REALLY affected me...like the ones where I'll stay all night (or morning) to read and then maybe when I finally finish reading, I'll sleep and start thinking about it right when I wake up the next morning...in this case, it was all of Saturday and then all the way until Sunday 4:00ish am...but then maybe it's just all the long mangas that I read that I like to comment on...

Anyways, I overall LOVED the art...the artist definitely knows how to serve her fans with naked bodies and sexual contacts here and there...the ending, for me anyways, was definitely not what I thought out to be...I won't way if the person below me was right or wrong...but I thought it was unexpected. I would have pretty much given this manga a 10/10 (as I usually do on all the mangas that I comment on) if not for the ending...it wasn't exactly...satisfying...let's just put it at that. It's true that this series is only scanlated to the 10th volume, however, if you're really persistent, you can find the last two volumes raw, and trust me, those are definitely worthwhile...I was going to be one of those lazy ones who just reads the spoiler and finds out what happens, but personally, even though I don't understand the raws, I thought it was worthwhile to still look at the pictures and guess what's happening. Again, VERY unexpected ending, so don't go thinking it's gonna end like your average shojo manga endings...I have to say, I've NEVER had such a reversal in favorite characters...before my favorite character was uh...Cesare...and then later they're Alfonso and Chiaro - the noble knight ^^ and as for Cesare, well, I could ALMOST hate him but his beauty saves him from it... XD

Now then, for those who don't feel the need to find the ending and read the raws, or just couldn't find the chance to, here's what happens:

So then basically, in the last two volumes, this is what happens...uh...well we already know that Chiaro later gets his right arm amputated...poor boy getting tortured by his master like that...so he basically loses his dominant hand in sword fighting...the good thing is he's still kickass better than everyone else in swordfighting. So then, apparently the only other way to save Cesare is basically for Chiaro to sacrifice himself...pretty annoying, there's like NO easy way out of this so Chiaro, being the noble loyal servant, decides to sacrifice himself (from what I saw) and he is basically able to purify Cesare with his death. Alfonso dies...sadly and what's really frickin' annoying is that he fake dies 2 times so both times I'm like NOOOO! ALFONSO!!!! and then after he opens his eyes it's like "phew" but then the third time he dies, it's pretty obvious he won't be surviving it and that totally pissed me off that the artist played with my heartstrings > :( Actually the character who I hate the most is Volpe or however you spell his name...he's so frickin' annoying, so 3 years passes by basically, from what I saw, Cesare, Volupe, Lucretia, and Sancia lives...and probably a few other, in my opinion, insignificant characters, I think alexander vi finally dies (FINALLY...after being like a puppet through the rest of the half series) and well Cesare is purified and good but I think he's still got nightmares cause he wakes up in sweats and Volpe is still his loyal servant and then the child of Chiaro and Lucretia it seems ends up living with Cesare, not sure if he calls him father or not. And he's ABSOLUTELY adorable, just like Chiaro actually. TOTALLY loving...he comes into the room and struggles onto Cesare's bed and then tries to touch his forehead to see if anything's wrong with him. And then apparently he came because he had a notice in his hand, and I'm guessing that the notice tells the death of alex vi...the end...pretty abrupt...but meh...I don't like overly long mangas, so I'm glad it ended soon...but still ALFONSO AND CHIARO!!!! WISH THEY DIDN'T DIE!!! I also hate Cesare for having him tortured so much that he ends up losing one arm...screw cesare...yes...I ended up being a Cesare hater -___-

Okay then, so sorry for the overly long comments, and hope it helped 🙂 PLEASE READ!!!! I really recommend this manga 🙂

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yawn...

by nanichan
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

I've actually read the first volume and there really wasn't anything to keep my eyes peeled , so to speak. Even though i love anything rainassance-related, this just didn't cut it, the plot went on for forever and nothing good happened! None gets RAEP'd!!! (just kidding....but it sure needs something like that to happen)

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Heart

by mariachan
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I adore this manga im not a fan of yaoi but cantarella doesn't really have much of that. no offense but around 7th or 8th volume her art starts to change alittle it's still nice but not what i'm used to. i ador this manga its great ^-^ it gets alittle confusing keeping up with the history

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Good but...

by Tisiphone
18 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Although I do enjoy the series, there are time that I get really confused among the history stuff and parts of the story are REALLY disturbing that I only read a new volume every few weeks but it is a good story. Just a heads up it really isn't much of a shounen-ai as most of the relationships are girlxguy relationships.

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Very nice!

by RilleL
18 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

A very good manga but the scanlations have been dropped. It's a shame really, the story and the art is top quality.
Why does every scanlation group crap their pants as soon as a manga gets licensed... 🙁

... Last updated 18 years ago

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AWESOME

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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This manga is just awesome! I found it to be a real page turner. XD can't wait to read more!

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intriguing

by [deleted member]
20 years ago

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i've read it until vol 3 chap 10 so far, and i can you'll be engrossed in this manga until the end of each volume~~

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