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Everybody in Cain's family, we are told, has a habit of studying poisons, and Cain is no different. With the aid of his trusted manservant Riff, he uses his knowledge of poisons to seek justice for murder victims, usually by poisoning the murderer. Both halves of the series (see below) begin with murder mystery short stories that Cain investigates before launching in to longer storylines concerning issues close to Cain himself.

 

 

The series was originally split into two halves, as the creator took a break to work on another series, ''[[Angel Sanctuary]].'' The first part consists of four arcs collected in five volumes, entitled ''Count Cain''. The second, done some years later, is eight volumes long and entitled ''Godchild''.

 

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Rebecca's dolls

* [[Arranged Marriage]]

* [[Art Evolution]]: The art has changed a ''lot'' from the first volume to the fifth; then Kaori Yuki took a break from ''Cain'' to work on ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'', and when she took up ''Cain'' again, the art style was almost completely different from where she'd left off. The mangaka herself even makes note of this in one of the sidebars in ''Godchild''.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Several characters.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Riff, {{spoiler|subverted when he has his [[Face Heel Turn]]}}.

* [[Best Served Cold]]

* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: Augusta}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]

* [[Brainwashed]]

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Jizabel's backstory.}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: Mikaela ...Well, when she's not in her [[Yandere]] mode.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Ironically enough, Cain is the Abel {{spoiler|to his illegitimate and completely psychopathic half brother, Jizabel}}.

* [[Cartwright Curse]]

* [[Doomed Appointment]]: {{spoiler|Neil in "Zigeunerweisen"}}.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Most of the cast.

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: Merryweather, plus half the female characters Cain encounters.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Riff}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Averted. Cain would have some justification in invoking it, but he never does. Also averted with Jizabel; the excuse isn't so much "excuse" as it is the actual base of Jizabel's plot. His abuse isn't just a past event to spur revenge, but an actual plot point for the story and an ongoing point of development.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Apparently, Kaori Yuki thinks the names Cassandra, Jizabel and Gloria are unisex.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Riff, among others}}.

* [[Hollywood Science]]

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Subverted with Cain {{spoiler|and Riff}}.

* [[In the Blood]]

* [[The Jeeves]]: Riff, {{spoiler|but subverted when it's revealed that he is even more mentally unstable than Cain is}}.

* [[Jesus Taboo]]

* [[Knife Throwing Act]]: Cassian was sold to the circus and performed in one of these for some time. During the series, his main weapon remains throwing knives.

* [[Living Doll Collector]]: [[Evil Cripple|Rebecca]] in "The Little Crooked House".

* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Cassian}}

* [[Only Six Faces]]: Particularly in run of Count Cain, most obviously when it came to young boys who all looked exactly the same. More or less avoided after the [[Art Evolution]].

* [[Princess Curls]]: Plenty.

* [[Psycho Serum]]

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Jizabel

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Kaori Yuki likes to point out that she often has done the research...and jettisoned it in favor of a more interesting development which might otherwise be prevented.

* [[Split Personality]]

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]

* [[Victim Falls For Rapist]]: Subverted in that the assault drove the victim mad. Further subverted in that {{spoiler|it wasn't really rape and the victim actually planned and provoked it herself for her own sick purposes}}.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|Alexis to Cain}}.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: {{spoiler|Oscar and Merryweather}}.