From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Recipe for Gertrude
The Recipe for Gertrude
The Recipe for Gertrude It is hinted by Puppen that Gertrude has been known
to make human friends every so often, but that they
Manga don’t last. Sahara’s friendship is the first that lasted this
Written by Kusakawa Nari long, and the first case where’s he stayed in one place. He
falls in love with her.
Published by Hakusensha[1]
Gertrude has the ability to use anything he can assert
English publisher CMX Manga power over by writing "Frailty, thy name is (object’s
name)" with his own blood; as summarised by Puppen
Magazine LaLa
and Marriotte, this ability is basically telling an object,
Original run 2001 – 2003 "You are weak, so you’ll do what I’ll tell you to do".
Volumes 5 Sahara Susugi: Sahara met Gertrude while visiting an
abandoned house. She is usually calm and level-headed,
The Recipe for Gertrude is a complete 5 volume serialization and often helpful. She visits the house daily to see her
that ran in LaLa starting in 2001. The manga is written friends Gertrude, Puppen, and Marriotte. When the blank
by Kusakawa Nari. The North American serialization is pages of the recipe react to her, Curtis suspects Sahara
available through CMX Manga (DC Comics). has some connection to the missing recipe, which she de-
nies. It later turns out the recipe has been grafted onto
her bones without her knowledge. Sahara falls in love
Plot with Gertrude.
From CMX Manga: Sahara is a normal high-school girl Puppen and Marriotte: During Gertrude’s construc-
whose life is turned upside down when she meets tion, an ear was taken each from Puppen and Marriotte.
"Gertrude," a 100-year-old demon who looks like a teen The story begins with the two’s attempt to steal them
aged boy. Gertrude is a man-made demon, constructed back. They lost, and now keep Gertrude company living
from the parts of various other demons and brought to in his house. They have the ability to take human form,
life through a "recipe" from an ancient spell book. or take on the bodies of inanimate objects. They fre-
Gertrude searches for the recipe in order to learn quently tease Gertrude about his not qualifying to be a
more about his origin, and wants to destroy the formula proper demon; however, after a little while living with
so that it can never be repeated. Sahara becomes a re- Gertrude himself, they act more like regular humans
sourceful ally in Gertrude’s quest, and they are aided by than they do demons.
some very comical and not-very-threatening demons. Kyusaku Susugi Kyusaku is Sahara older brother.
When Gertrude first sees Kyusaku, he thought that he
saw Claude in him. In volume 2, he kidnapped Sahara
Characters to keep Gertrude from the recipe as it is grafted onto
Gertrude: Is a man-made demon constructed by Claude. her bones. However, Sahara escapes with the help from
He was assembled using choice parts of demons that Gertrude who realizes that Kyusaku, Sahara older broth-
Claude stole or found. Since his parts are not his own, er is in fact Claude. It is revealed that when Sahara’s par-
he spends life on the run from various demons wanting ents visit England, the real Kyusaku died when he was
their respective parts back. Gertrude is looking for the seven. That is when Claude took over his body. Although
recipe for his own creation in order to prevent further Sahara finds out he is actually Claude, she still deeply
cases like his own, to learn more about himself, and also cares for him as her older brother despite they are not
so that demons will stop trying to track him down. related. Claude in some twisted way cares for Sahara as
He becomes more powerful during full moons, but his little sister as well. This is shown in volume 3 when
has tended to avoid taking advantage of this as it will he didn’t even hesitate to protect her from a fallen flower
make him more violent. During these times, his usually pot. Later on, we find out that Claude was married to
silver hair will turn black due to the "evil aura." He was Halon and that Gertrude’s body was made from Halon’s
persuaded to use his power by Sahara during a fight twin sister Gertrude who he was named after. However,
when it seemed they would be unable to defeat Curtis. the experiment became a mess when Gertrude (Halon
Previously, Gertrude worried he would lose the only part twin sister) takes her and Halon soul and put it into
that’s his, his consciousness, if he were to use this ability. Gertrude body causing the three souls to share one body.
Claude struggles to free Halon’s soul from Gertrude, but it
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Recipe for Gertrude
is too late as her soul merges with Gertrude and they be-
come one while Halon’s twin sister becomes evil. At the
Reception
end Gertrude saves Claude from dying. Though Claude is Johanna Draper Carlson found the manga unmemo-
left with many scars he still lives and Sahara forgives him rable.[2] Carl Kimlinger found the story "fairly deriva-
for everything. tive", and the art poor. He enjoyed the relationship be-
Halon Halon was the wife of Claude. She was half- tween the main characters.[3]
demon, half-human and the twin sister of Gertrude. She
was the opposite of her sister and was unselfish, caring
and kind. She was killed when her sister placed her soul
References
into Gertrude’s body. Halon is the main reason why [1] http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/comicate/
Claude continues to experiment in hopes of separating comi_no58/s_talk/index.html
her soul from Gertrude the man-made demon. [2] http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/01/the-
Gertrude (Halon’s Twin Sister) Gertrude was the sis- recipe-for-gertrude-book-1/
ter of Halon. She was greedy and always wanting more. [3] http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-
She was the evil in Gertrude the man-made demon. Being recipe-for-gertrude/g.novel-1
a half-demon, she would cough up blood every day and
would be severely hurt whenever she tried to use her
magic. She fell in love with Claude, but Claude did not re-
External links
turn her feeling because he loved Halon. She became jeal- • CMX MANGA - The Recipe for Gertrude at the
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and for that Claude no longer cares for her. As shown Network’s Encyclopedia
when her corpse was injure fighting Curtis.
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